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CGirardi - Manchester in J. winterson and A. Tocqueville.
by CGirardi - (2012-10-11)
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Manchester in J. Winterson And A. Toqueville.



J. Winterson in her novel "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal" definies Manchester as a good place to be born. At first the writer describes Manchester's geographical position, then she specifies that Manchester was the city where the Industrial Revolution born, indeed it had canals and railways for the distribuction of goods and thinkers and doers. J. Winterson fristly describe the 1959's Manchester, the age of her birth, and deal with Manchester was a mix city because of Marx and Engel's influence. A. de  Tocqueville writes a diary where he records the impressions he had on Manchester. He tries to make the reader imagine the city give informations about geographical references, and he appeals to senses like sight and earing. In A. de  Tocqueville's description of Manchester he expresses all his disgust and he plans the text to allude the reader of what he writes about. In the diary the writes deal with the idea of individual against society that the Industrial Revolution brought. A. de  Tocqueville condams the Industrialisation and criticized also the architetures of the city.