The Struggle In The Original Star-Belly Sneetches

“The Sneetches” is one of Dr. Seuss’s best known stories. In “The Sneetches,” the Star-Belly Sneetches claim they are the best Sneetches and leave the Plain-Belly Sneetches out of their fun activities. Therefore, the Plain-Belly Sneetches become sad and mope on the beach. Then, one day, Sylvester McMonkey McBean arrives with a machine that gives the Plain-Belly Sneetches stars. The new Star-Belly Sneetches are happy that they can now join in the original Star-Belly Sneetches’ fun; however, the original Star-Belly Sneetches claim they are still the best and seek a way to distinguish themselves from the new Star-Belly Sneetches. McBean then arrives with his machine, but it turns the original Star-Belly Sneetches into Plain-Belly Sneetches. The

In the conflict theory, the bourgeoisie, the owners of the means of production, exploits the proletariat, the working class. In “The Sneetches,” McBean, someone who owns his machine of production, continuously takes advantages of the Sneetches for profit. When he arrives to the beach, he charges the Plain-Belly Sneetches three dollars to have stars put on their bellies. He later charges the Star-Belly Sneetches $10 to have their stars removed. This starts the repetitive cycle of stars being removed and added on, causing the Sneetches to pay McBean three dollars and ten dollars multiple times. While the Sneetches eventually have nothing, McBean has surplus. The inequality between the Sneetches (the proletariat) and McBean (the bourgeoisie) has grown even more, and McBean would not have it any other way. Because the Sneetches made themselves vulnerable with their intense, frivolous prejudice and discrimination towards one another, McBean acquires great

Like Marx said, the proletariat eventually come together and change things. When McBean leaves, he says that Sneetches will never change, possibly indicating that he will seek to exploit them again. The Sneetches, however, prove McBean wrong. They all decide that neither one is better than the other and live in harmony. Although the Sneetches did not psychically overthrown McBean and his machine, they overthrew the ideas and exploitation it stood for. Because all the Sneetches start a revolution, they reap the