Charles Dickens Research Paper

Throughout history, there have been many different types of revolutions. These revolutions have shaped the world into what it is today. One very influential and change evoking revolution was the industrial revolution. This revolution began in Great Britain during the 19th century. During this century Great Britain had and adequate food supply, as well as abundant natural resources. The food supply enabled the population to increase and many innovations were created. These innovations made the farming process much easier and faster. Farmers were no longer needed because of these innovations so they moved from rural to urban areas. Aside from having abundant resources, Great Britain also had an irregular coastline (that enabled them to build
People will join together to form unions, child labor will end, and workers will have laws that protect them. Some long term effects that we still experience today are capitalism and the creation of unions.

A few immediate effects of the Industrial Revolution were pollution and poor living and working conditions. As new technologies emerged, the population grew and the food supply increased. The agricultural technologies led to new manufacturing technologies to emerge as well. Many people moved to urbans areas in order to work in factories. According to Charles Dickens, "serpents of smoke trailed themselves forever… It had a black canal in it and a river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye." Charles Dickens’ tone is very disapproving. He is not in favor of industrialization. Dickens describes the city of "Coketown" as a highly polluted area. A "serpent" is usually associated with evil and slyness, which is how he is trying to portray industrialization as. A serpent is also known to choke its prey before eating it, and that is exactly what Charles believes the polluted air is doing to people, harming them. Dickens also uses colors such as "black," "red" and "purple " to show how
Laws and ideas spread to support the creation of unions and capitalism. Unions were created to better the lives of the working class. Almost everyone in the working class was experiencing bad conditions at their job and at home. French writer, Flora Tristan, says “You must leave behind division and isolation as quickly as possible and March courageously and fraternally down the only appropriate path.” Tristan is speaking to the working class, her tone is very urgent throughout the document. The urgency is evident as she repeats the words unity and equality to emphasize the importance of what the working class must do. The “division and isolation” is the injustice they have amongst each other. Women made less money than men and had to give their money to the male figure in their families. She believes if the men treated women the same way and both earned the same amount of money, had the same rights and were treated with the same respect, then they would be able to come together and become much stronger. The stronger they are the much more impact their formed unions will make. The Unions enabled different workers to have a sense of protection and power over the wealthy people. Wealthy people had different lives than the poor, working class. The upper class usually were business or factory owners. These ownerships enabled them to get a lot of money because