As homo sapiens, we are distinguished from all other animals through our intellectual abilities. Our capacity for introspection and the ability to create, control, and manipulate symbols are incomparable. Though the "cognitive" evolution of humankind dates back to about seventy thousand years BCE, we cannot clearly know when and how human language emerged. Only after the agricultural revolution dating back to eleven thousands years BCE, we seem to have converted in increasing numbers from hunting and gathering to farming, thereby creating early evidences of the relation between language acquisition and human labour through the reckonings of the needs of settled lives. Language acquisition as an eminent step to moving forward on the pyramid of civilizations, however, came to imply a means of domestication as well. Language as an ideology bearer according to Althusser functions accordingly as a mediator between systems of power and individuals allowing for hegemonic power to reproduce itself by obscuring traditional forms of repression and incorporating individuals into the power of structure. Literature as a component of language and language as a component of ideology in this case might function as an active force to shape ‘those’ who have access to literature and literary language. Within the framework of this study, after laying out a general background of the relation between language, and ideology, I will present, through some specific examples from historical and literary texts, how the idea of language has served the construction of the nineteenth century English middle class ideology domesticating the social masses in general and women in particular.