Starting from the title of the extract, the reader immediately knows that it is higly signicant. Indeed Coketown is made by the prefix “coke” and “town”. Coke is the most important fuel that allowed the development of the production during the Industrial Revolution. It follows that Coketown may be an industrialized city in the North of England. However the reader knows that it is a false name invented by the narrator to refer to a city near Manchester.

The first paragraph sets up the scene describing two people walking towards Coketown, while the following paragraphs describe different aspects of the city.

Right from the start, the reader comes into contact with a third person omniscient intrusive narrator (“let us strike the key-note”) the entire extract is full of judgments.

First of all, the narrator lists the colors of the city using a chromatic language:in particular red and black. Red is the color of brick as well as blood,passion, black is the color of sin  and smoke,it also reminds to death.  The cause of such a horrifying landscape is the pollution because of the industrial production. There are different words which refers to industrialization: smoke produced by factories is a serpent.  According to Puritanism, the serpent is the symbol of sin and devil .

A key-feature of Coketown is its monotony: on the semantic level there are many anaphoras “all day long” and “monotonously”, “it was a city of…” “more/equally like one another”, “every day/year”, “the same work/hour”.  monotony regards whole life-style of the inhabitants, because work and private life were not separated aspects. Pragmatism is another relevant aspect of Coketown. There was no space for relationships, creativity and individualism, only profit and progress is important.