Manchester, Toqueville

The first paragraph describes the settings and the natural aspect of Manchester like hills and river.

In this paragraph the reader can understand the writer has a negative opinion of industrialization and capitalism society.

He considered them like ‘' the individual powers of man; nothing the directing power of society''.

In the second paragraph are shown the consequences of industrialization: Manchester has become an industrial city so there was a destruction of its natural aspect.

The industrialization caused also the lost of personality by the population.

In the third paragraph is expressed the unequal distribution of wealth, caused by the capitalism.

In the fourth paragraph the writer expressed the workers’ condition with the colour black, that refers to smog and poverty.