in the history of the world” (P1818). Cotton industry was the first wave of the Industrial Revolution; the wealth in Britain was not shared with any poor. Considering this pollution and suffering Dickens wrote about Manchester‚ which he called the CokeTown. “It was a town of red brick‚ or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but‚ as matters stood it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage.” Here Dickens was telling us about the change
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The novel which is set up in fictitious Victorian industrial Coketown‚‚ assesses industrialization and the effect it had on people The ill effects of Victorian Utilitarianism are seen in the novel‚ through two of its characters‚ Thomas Gradgrind and Josiah Bounderby. the sleary circus in Charles Dickens’ novel Hard Times is full of life‚ color‚ and character which is in sharp contrast to the bleak and gray industrial setting of Coketown‚ the modernist mentality represented by Bounderby and Gradgrind’s
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his negative feelings towards the industrial revolution by describing the town the way he does. He uses a large amount of figures of speeches and metaphors to indirectly describe the depressing look of Coketown and the people that inhabit it. The name of the town itself says a lot about it. “Coketown” can also be portrayed as a town dominated by slums and criminals. “It was a town of machinery and tall chimneys‚ out of which interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever and never
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Coketown By Charles Dickens Dickens is using figures of speech to make pictures in the readers head and he is therefore helping people imagine the things he is telling about. One would say that Dickens is using metaphors to put a picture on his story and to make everyone feels how awful and terrible Coketown is. “Coketown was a town of red brick‚ or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but‚ as matters stood it was a town of unnatural red and black like the
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satire‚ a parody of ideas and ways of thinking at the time. In most respects‚ it wasn’t meant to accurately describe the way things were. Dickens covers up his parody with a realistic and extremely accurate depiction of the typical industrial town. Coketown is described to be the very picture of conformity‚ with all the buildings looking like one another. "It was a town of red brick‚ or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood it was a town of unnatural
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English society and highlighting of the social and economic pressures during 1850s. It is appraise about injustice and lack of concern for others in England during the revolution of industrial. Industrial brought so many good things for people in the Coketown. Many factories built‚ people start to get some jobs. However‚ the process of industrialism divides society into three strata: the poor‚ the middling‚ and the well-off or the first class. And the nature of things‚ which dictate that as soon as a
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shall he also reap." Book I is entitled "Sowing"‚ Book II is entitled "Reaping"‚ and the third is "Garnering." [edit]Book I: Sowing Mr. Gradgrind‚ whose voice is "dictatorial"‚ opens the novel by stating "Now‚ what I want is facts" at his school in Coketown. He is a man of "facts and calculations." He interrogates one of his pupils‚ Sissy‚ whose father is involved with the circus‚ the members of which are "Fancy" in comparison to Gradgrind’s espousal of "Fact." Since her father rides and tends to horses
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The Sandwich Factory By Jason Kennedy The main theme of the short story The Sandwich Factory is the mechanization of human beings. The plot takes place in 1994 at a sandwich factory and we meet the narrator who works there. Through him we get the impression that the employees are no longer considered humans or individuals‚ but just one of many. The factory threatens to turn human beings into machines by thwarting the development of their emotions and imaginations and in the end of the story the
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Best seller by O.Henry MCQ’s (1) Where does the narrator went for his business? (a) Coketown (b) Cincinnati (c) Pittsburgh (d) Virginia (2) What was the name of the person to whome narattor meets in passanger car? (a) William Porter (b) John Cena (c) John A. Pescud (d) O.Henry (3) What was the duration of time after which narrator meets to Pescud? (a)12 months (b)24 months (c)18 months (d)20 months (4)
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TOPIC:-What is Moral Fable? How can you say that Hard Times is a Moral Fable? BY: CHETAN ANKUR Moral fable combines the left (logical) & right (creative) side of the brain‚ so it both entertains creatively and validates certain types of behaviour‚ morally. The creative part is the fairy tale which often involves animals rather than humans. It speaks to our hearts as it entertains us; the ending is the logical‚ moral conclusion that satisfies our logical
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