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• TITLE: “Ye Are Many, They Are Few”: Nonviolence as Response to Oppression and Repression in the Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley

  AUTHORS: George Ewane Ngide

  KEYWORDS: Oppression, Repression, Nonviolence, Government, Governed, Class

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Social Sciences, Vol.8 No.6, June 30, 2020

  ABSTRACT: This article sets out to examine the relationship between the government and the governed in the works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. We posit that such a relationship is generally characterised by oppression and repression of the governed (the people, the many) by the government (the few, the ruling class). The ruling class inflicts pain of untold proportion on the masses that they subordinate and subjugate. As a result of the gruesome pain inflicted on them and the harrowing and excruciating experiences they go through, the masses are obliged to stand in defiance of the system and through nonviolence techniques they overthrow the governing class. This overthrow does not lead to a dictatorship of the proletariat rather it leads to a society of harmonious living. The Marxist theory of thesis, antithesis and synthesis is used to inform this argument.