TEXTUAL ANALYSIS OF THE TEXT MANCHESTER FROM JOURNEYS TO ENGLAND AND IRELAND, BY ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE

Reading the title the reader expects that the text is about the description of Manchester.

In the first paragraph the narrator describes the natural elements of Manchester, for example he writes about hills and rivers, which were very useful to the transport of factories products.

In the others paragraphs the narrator focuses the reader attention on the main characteristics of Manchester, in particular on the development of factories and on the industrialization of the city. These were very important for the people in that period because the development of the city provided wealth, although it provoked a breach between riches and poor men.

The intelligent reader can also note that machineries were more important than working people, who hadn't power, they were conditioned by machineries. They hadn't a personality. These were all consequences of the Industrial revolution in Manchester, which had a double face: on one side there was prosperity, but on the other side there was poverty.