MANCHESTER IN J. WINTERSON AND A. TOCQUEVILLE

Jeanette Winterson analysis Manchester in the second chapter of book "Why be happy when you could be normal?". Manchester is the city where Jeanette was born, and she starts describing it during the period of her birth, in the 1959.

The author describes the geographic location of Manchester: it is in the south of the north of England. At that time Manchester was the world's first industrial city.

Manchester was a contradictory city, it was repressive and radical at the same time, it wove riches and wove despair and degradation into the human fabric.

In the first part of this chapter,Jeanette analysis the city of Manchester about the period and about the geographic location. In the second part she analysis Manchester during the Industrial Revolution; she also lists the dire consequences that this revolution has brought into the lives of people which were subjected to poor working conditions. A lot of people lived crowded and they hadn’t a house,also in that city there were bad conditions of hygiene.

Jeanette uses many figures of speech, quotes to people who have lived in Manchester to describe the conflicts existing in it and in general to describe this city during a certain period.

The second text is Manchester by Alexis De Tocqueville; the aims of the two writers are completely different one from each other. At the beginning Tocqueville gives some geographic details about Manchester and in this he makes a more detailed description than Winterson, but he definitely wants to underline the conditions of the city during a fundamental period which led also to important consequences.

He mainly focuses on the consequences for poor people and worker.

Like Winterson, he uses different figures of speech to make the story more realistic and to enable the reader to imagine the city, he makes use of several recurring phrases in order to reach discover quoted.

In conclusion the overall effect of the Manchester description by Alexis Tecqueville, is a realistic effect. Jeanette Winterson describes the city with many feelings and adds text to the various elements of your point of view.