Notes about the Second Sequence of Coketown (15/5/12)

The function of the second sequence is to present and criticize the building of Coketown. The first sentence is to make remind the reader that the whole town is founded on work.
In the second sentence there is a judgement about the architecture of the city, not about factories but about civil and religious buildings.
The narrator says that only the New Church is different but there is also a negative judgement about its architecture. Information here are conveyed with the grotesque technique (birds cages).
The narrator says here that the New Church if full of decorations and the reader imagines an ungly church. The function of this presentation is to criticize the Utilitarian vision of the world that does not allows freedom. Everything is built up following the same principle and there is no creativity.
The narrator says that public inscriptions are all white or black: it recalls the idea of right and wrong of Manicheism.
The narrator uses a repetitive syntax; the repetitiveness is also expressed throughout semantic shift: there is no distintion, no identity and it gives the idea of the chaos. In people there is no personality. Imagination is not allowed in this town because it is useless: whatever provides no purpose is sinful.
There is no possibility of change. At school knowledge is founded on the fact and everything must be measured. Everything is a fact in Coketown: what is not a figure or saleable does not interest to these people.