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Alienation I have felt alienated by work many times, which gives me a kind of practical experience on the essay title. I have divided my essay into two parts. In the first one I present my main points i.e. the ways in which and the extent to which work is alienating and illustrate them with examples. In the second and more evaluative part I discuss the levels of alienation and the question of whether people are alienated if they cannot perceive it. By alienation is meant that a person experiences estranged from him. He does not feel as the creator or master of his own acts but instead his acts and their consequences have become his masters. To put the same in Karl Marx's words man's "own act becomes to him an alien power, standing over and against him, instead of being ruled by him". The meaning of the term "alienation"...

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