Activities.

ACTIVITY 1

Buildings: 

 "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?" - J.                                                                                                                              Winterson. .: "Railways that carried thinkers and doers up and down to London".  

"Manchester (1835)" - A. de Toqueville. : "Watery land are scattered palaces and hovels"; "thirthy of fourty factories rise in the top of the hills; their six stories tower up"; "their huge enclosures give notice from afar of the centralisation of industry."; "rubble from buildings are found here and there"; "the huges palaces of industry and clasp them in their hideous folds." "look up and all around this place and you will see the huge palaces of inustry.".

"Coketown" - C. Dickens. : "It was a town of red brick, or of that brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage."; "vaste pile of buildings full of windows where there was a rattling".       

Land:

 "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?" - J.                                                                                                                              Winterson. .: "Manchester is in the south of north of England."

 "Manchester (1835)" - A. de Toqueville. :  "Round them streches land uncultivated but without the charm of rusticnature, and still without the amenities of a town." ; " the land is given over to industry's use. the roads wich connect the still-disjointed limbs of the great city show, like the rest, every sign of hurried and unfinished work;" ;" some of these roads are paved"; "Heaps of dung are found here and there" ; " stretches marshy land wich wideley  spaced ditches can neither drain nor cleanse."; "A sort of black smoke covers the city. The sun seen throught it is a disc without rays."

"Coketown" - C. Dickens. : " several large streets all very like one another, and many small streets still more loke on another".

Water:             

  "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?" - J.                                                                                                                       Winterson. .: "Manchester had canals, easy access to the great port of Liverpool".

  "Manchester (1835)" - A. de Toqueville. :  "Three canals made by men, lazy waters"; "watery land"; "stagnat pools"; "the level of the river and overshadowed on every side by immense workshops." ; "the fetid, muddy waters."

"Coketown" - C. Dickens. : " it had black canal in it, and a river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye."

ACTIVITY 2.

Exemples of accumulations and contrast:

- It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood, it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage. 

- interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever, and never got uncoiled.

- the piston of the steam-engine worked monotonously up and down, like the head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness.

- large streets all very like one another, and many small streets still more like one another.

A) C. Dickens'text and the second chapter of J. Winterson's novel both describe cities marked by Industrialisation. Coketown, wich is an imaginary town created by C. Dickens, is a city of facts and it's built with red bricks soiled of black smoke. J. Winterson in her memoir describe the city of Manchester in 1960's years. The city is described as a "good place to be born", where the population's conditions are better than in Coketown. J. Winterson look at Industrialisation in a different way respect C. Dickens because they lived in two differents periods. C. Dicken's point of view is similiar at A. de Toqueville's vision of Industrialisation.