COKETOWN BY C.DICKENS

Coketown by C. Dickens doesn’t exist: it is an imaginary town. Right from the title C. Dickens focuses the reader’s attention on the fuel of the town that is important for the system of production. There is a third person omniscient intrusive narrator. The novelist appeals to sensesàsight, hear, touch, smell in order to render the description more lively. The town is depicted by different colours: red and black are the most frequently used. The colour of red bricks reminds the  colour of  blood, instead the colour of the black canals reminds the darkness of  hell. A binary system is there : red and black, guilt and innocence, artificial and natural.

MANCHESTER BY ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE

Alexis De Tocqueville’s vision of Manchester is an extract from Journeys to England and Ireland.

1845à during the first decades of the spread of the Industrial Revolution. The novelist appeals to sense of sight because he tries to give a mental picture to the reader. There’s an alliteration of letter M in made man to underline the artificiality of canals; there is an opposition between the nature of the rivers and the artificiality of the canals. The power of man has changed  nature. Manchester is the celebration of the power of the individual. There is not a regulating principle and the town seems to have been born without any particular design.

Also the narrator appeals to hring: everything makes nois. The writerr uses an ironic tone: Manchester reminds a medieval townwith som sign of the 18th century.