Dr. Seuss And Yertle The Turtle, By Theodor Geisel

Theodor Geisel Seuss is an American author, and a political cartoonist who is also known under the pen name Dr Seuss. His works play an important role in children literature because of his simple vocabulary and rhyming lines. His style is known by its exceptional storylines and moral values, two aspects that are found in most of his works. He has written several children’s books that inspired children and adults all around the world. One of his remarkable techniques that he uses in his writing, is that he uses his books as a platform for presenting his political ideas and views. In an article, Peter Dreier notes that “Some of his books use ridicule, satire, wordplay, nonsense words and wild drawings to take aim at bullies, hypocrites
Both works project his political views, as he has used his works as a way to present what he believes in. They discuss the concept of the struggle for power and how one category can dominate the other. In order to analyze these texts, I am going to apply critical discourse analysis on both texts to reveal the implemented concepts. I will be relating it to the Karl Marx’s theory to show how the author has presented his political reviews to the reader within children’s
It can create an ideology that would stir people’s thinking or direct that way they think and perceive things around them. Thomas and Wareing state that “The concept of ideology was first introduced by followers of Karl Marx, notably Louis Althusser. Althusser wondered about how the vast majority of people had been persuaded to act against their own interests, since they worked long hours at laborious tasks and lived in poverty, while a very small number of people made enormous amounts of money from their labor, and enjoyed lives of luxury”(34). The concept of ideology is used to explain why the majority of people did not refuse the system because of the fact that they have been persuaded that it is normal and that there is no need to refuse it. They add that, “Nowadays ideology tends to be used more widely, to refer to any set of beliefs which, to the people who hold them, appear to be logical and natural” (34). It is used to explain certain beliefs that are considered as something that is natural according to people who are believing in. In