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DCastellan - exercises of Coketown
by DCastellan - (2016-11-29)
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  • Coketown is a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it. It was a town of machinery and tall chimneys. It contained several large streets, many more streets, inhabited by people.

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  • Public buildings were: the Church, the warehouse, the jail, the town-all, the infirmary, the hospital and the market. They weren't any differences among them (indeed: 'the jail might have been the infirmary')

    The writer tells about the Church as a secret place.

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  • A Native Organisation wanted to make all people religious by main force.

  • Teetotal Society shows in tabular statements that they did get drunk, and proved at tea parties that no inducement, human or Divine would induce them to forego their customs or getting drinks.

  • Throught tabular statements, the chemist and druggist showed that when they didn't get drunk, they took opium.

  • The experienced chaplain of the jail showed, with more tabular statements, that the same people would resort to low haunts hidden from public eye and they heard low singing and saw low dancing.

  • They wanted to prove that these same people were a bad lot altogheter.

 

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  • The narrator is a third person intrusive one.

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  • Similes: the piston of the steam-engine worked monotonously up and down, like the heard of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness.

  • Metaphors: It was a town of machinery and tall chimneys, out of which interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever and never gor uncoiled.

     The writer critized the process of industriaisation.

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  • Repetitions: like one another

  • Aspects: monotony, alienation

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  • Dickens emphasises the consequences of the Industrial revolution. He underlines the development of work in the factories and in the mines. He highlights the condition of the pour people and their monotony lifestile.