Propaganda – information, ideas or rumours deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.
Oppression – prolonged cruel or unjust treatment and control
Status Quo – the existing order of things, present customs, practices and power relations (People with money are often content with the status quo)
Alienation – isolation from a group or activity to which one should belong or in which one should be involved
Ideology – the body of ideas reflecting the social needs and aspirations of an individual, group, class, or culture; set of doctrines or beliefs that form the basis of a political economic or other system
Utopia – an ideally perfect place, especially in its social, political and moral aspects; an impractical idealistic scheme of social and political reform
Marxist Literary Theory 