Textuality » 5BSU Interacting
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In both pictures you can see the air pollution, caused by factories, the peoples' poverty and dirty bricks.
Ex. 2
The following extract refers to the picture 1: "It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes has allowed it."
Ex.3
The Coketown was a town of red brick, a town painted of unnatural red and black, a town of machinery and tall chimneys. It had a black canal in it and a river who was smelling. It has a vast piles of building full of windows. Caketown also contained several large and small streets very similar one another.
Ex.4
New Church;
Jail;
Infirmary;
Lying-in hospital;
New Church;
M'Choakumchild;
Cemetery;
Town hall.
Ex.5
1. A native organisation Of Coketown wanted to make people religious "by main force".
2. Teetotal Society shows in tabular statements that these people did get drunk and it proved that nothing and no one (human or divine) could induce them to forego their bad custom.
3. Through tabular statements chemists and druggists showed that when thes people didn’t get drunk, they took opium.
4. The aim of the jail chaplain was 1. Members of the organization wanted to make all people religious by main force.
2. Teetotal Society shows in tabular statements that these people did get drunk and it proved that nothing and no one (human or divine) could induce them to forego their bad custom.
3. Through tabular statements chemists and druggists showed that when thes people didn’t get drunk, they took opium.
4. The aim of the jail chaplain was to show that the same people met themselves in hidden places and they heard low singing and dancing.
5. Mr Gradgrid and Mr Bounderby wanted to prove that these same people were gentlemen.to show that the same people met themselves in hidden places and they heard low singing and dancing.
Ex 6
The narrator is a third person omniscient one.
Ex 8
Similes: "like the painted face of a savage", "like the head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness", "like gold that had stood fire".
Metaphors: a town of unnatural red and black, interminable serpents of smoke, run purple.
Both metaphors and similes strongly criticised the process of industrialisation, in fact Dickens through them highlights the bad aspect of this process. The place described is like the hell.
Ex.10
Dickens explains the development of factories, that pollutes the towns. Indeed highlights the reaction of the people to the terrible conditions of work; they used to drink a lot and they also took opium. The speaking voice shows the monotony of Victorians’ life in the industrial world. Finally he denounces the excessive tension to the concreteness.