How lucky can people truly be today? People nowadays complain crazily even though there is a great amount more of things they have. In the past, there have been people who have practically nothing, with nobody willing to help them. Just look at the Industrial Revolution and those conditions and social classes. This might be hard to get interested in, but there are books such as Oliver Twist and others, that provide great examples of what the Industrial Revolution was like. By reading Oliver Twist, the aspects of the Industrial Revolution, such as home life and the different classes, become more and more clear.
In Oliver Twist, there is a glimpse of all the different lifestyles that were led through the Industrial Revolution. The first
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These houses all show the different classes. The poor housing would be the workhouse, the middle being Mr. Brownlow’s, and the high being the Maylie’s. Oliver Twist is stuck in the middle of both high and poor classes, and moves around between the two throughout the whole book. He begins out poor, in the workhouse, and then moves in with Mr. Brownlow, then goes back to the poor by getting stolen. Finally he ends up in the Maylie’s, and in the end adopted by Mr. Brownlow. Similarly, the people of the book Oliver Twist definitely represent the differing social classes. For example, when Oliver is just outside London, and practically dying, all of the rich folks travel by him. He is calling for help, and there were “very few who took any notice of him,” (Dickens, 78) and those who did basically all made fun of him. This is one of the examples of the different classes amongst people. Another is shown when Nancy and Rose meet up. Rose is a nice high class person, however, to Nancy, as she would be “truly glad to relieve you if I can,” (Dickens, 355), as she tells Nancy. This then shows the different people of the Industrial …show more content…
The housing and living conditions during the revolution varied just as it does in the book. In the city, there were slums and poor living conditions such as the workhouse. In the country, however, there were mansions and regular houses such as the Maylie’s and Brownlow’s. This book helped get on the inside of these homes, as Charles Dickens himself is presented as Oliver Twist. Also, the social classes shown throughout the book are yet again a representation of what it was like living during the Industrial Revolution. All the rich people were basically separate from the poor people. Although this is true, some of them, not all of them, were nice enough to recognize and attempt to help the lower class in the book. This is the same as in the Industrial Revolution. The stereotypical rich person comes across as a brute or fool, but that was never the real case. People like Rose and Mr. Brownlow lived, which is directly shown from the events of Oliver Twist, because as stated before, the book is based off of the real life of Charles Dickens. Reading Oliver Twist helps teach the life and separations of the Industrial Revolution. Oliver Twist consists of representation of the different lives and social classes that were part of the Industrial Revolution. This means that slums and homes were represented through the book. Equivalently, the distinct classes of people were
Starting in the mid 1700s and continuing to the late 1850s, arguably still ongoing today, industrialization is centered on the development of machinery and urbanization. This new era found its roots in Great Britain, and later in the entirety of Western Europe once the French Revolution and the Congress of Vienna were resolved. Development was essential in Great Britain simply because it was not connected to continental Europe and Britain had the resources, like coal, to fuel the industrial revolution. Once the idea of industrialization was sparked, it burned like wildfire and spread to the rest of Europe. Results of industrialization were exceptional and robust; calling for others to join. Industrialization was a time for growth, both economically and politically, wide
The houses are all lined in formation, with similar colors and structure. Even the colors and decorations in the houses are all pretty much the same, pinkish red and yellow, that makes everything feminine and monotonous, perhaps even boring, just like the houses on the outside. The people of the town are all different, but are all narrow-minded in the same way, which is shown when they gather and gossip about Edward (Burton, 1990). These are all examples of how there is not much difference from one another in a way that they are all controlled by the same, concrete social group. What the beginning of the film brings us is a type of realism where people live in the excessive stereotype of suburban America.
West Egg is where the “middle class” live. Residents are wealthy, but they’re much rowdier than their East Egg neighbors. They throw loud, eccentric parties and “they conducted themselves according to the rules of behavior associated with amusement parks” (45). Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway are both residents of West Egg. Their homes, however, are completely different in size and grandeur. Nick described his house as “. . . an eyesore, but it was a small eyesore, and it had been overlooked, so I had a view of the water, a partial view of my neighbor's lawn, and the consoling proximity of millionaires—all for eighty dollars a month” (9-10). The neighbor, later revealed to be Gatsby, is of higher class than Nick, even though they live in the same region due to the size of his home, and his riches. The citizens of West Egg, like Nick and Gatsby, don’t come from wealthy families. Their “non-pedigree” status stops them from getting what they want. For example, Daisy gets tired of waiting for Gatsby to get back from war and acquire wealth, and she marries Tom, a very rich man with family history, instead. The residents of West Egg are stuck between the poverty they escaped and the status they want to achieve, this ...
For the 20th century working class can enjoy the benefits of the Industrial Revolution that was not possible during the industralisation that brought many poor workers into the cities and caused overpopulation and harsh living conditions.
The Industrial Revolution marks a major turning point in history, because before this revolution, life for the average person was difficult, as incomes were very little, and malnourishment and disease were common. People produce the most of their own food, clothing, furniture and tools. Robert E. Lucas, Jr., winner of Nobel Prize, said: ‘’For the first time in history, the living standards of the masses of ordinary people have begun to undergo sustained growth... Nothing remotely like this economic behavior is mentioned by the classical economists, even as a theoretical possibility.’’1.
Dickens' Criticism of the 1834 Poor Law in Oliver Twist Dickens criticised the 1834 poor law in many different ways within the first five chapters. He does this firstly by cleverly portraying the Victorians attitudes towards the poor. He does this in chapter 1 by referring to Oliver as 'the item of mortality' suggesting how lowly his position in society is. Also the difficulty of Oliver's birth and the fact his mother dies, gives us some idea of the dangers of child birth in Victorian society and the amount of negligence his mother receives from the surgeon.
Great Expectations and Oliver Twist are representative of the works produced by Charles Dickens over his lifetime. These novels exhibit many similarities - perhaps because they both reflect painful experiences that occurred in Dickens' past.
Social Classes of Industrial England in Charles Dickens' Hard Times In his novel, Hard Times, Charles Dickens used his characters to describe the caste system that had been shaped by industrial England. By looking at three main characters, Stephen Blackpool, Mr. Josiah Bounderby, and Mr. Thomas Gradgrind, one can see the different classes that were industrial England. Stephen Blackpool represented the most abundant and least represented caste in industrial England, the lower class (also called the hands) in Charles Dickens' novel. Stephen was an honest, hard-working man who came to much trouble in the novel, often because of his class.
The author Jane Austen was writing in the most transformative eras of British history. Austen experienced the beginning of industrialization in England. The movie shows concerns over property, money and status that highlight’s the social scale of the eighteenth and early ninetieth-century England. The film shows the broad social class that included those who owned land as well as the professional classes (Lawyers, doctors, and clergy). Throughout this time there were strict inheritance laws. The law for owning property was that it would go to male children or male relatives rather than breaking it up ...
Importance of Social Class in Charles Dickens's Great Expectations Social class played a major role in the society depicted in Charles Dickens's Great Expectations. Social class determines the manner in which a person is treated and their access to education. Yet, social class does not define the character of the individual. Many characters were treated differently because of their social class in Great Expectations. Seeing the contrast between how the poor and the rich were treated will give a clearer understanding of how much social class mattered.
utterly lower class that would be to Estella. "I thought how Joe and my sister were then sitting in the kitchen and how Miss Havisham and Estella never sat in a kitchen, but were far above the level of such common things (Dickens 55)." This shows how the minimal differences between the two classes contribute to a greater variance in the attitudes of the two. Through his exposure to Estella and Miss Havisham, Pip discovers the realit...
can be seen in Oliver Twist, a novel about an orphan, brought up in a workhouse and poverty to demonstrate the hypocrisy of the upper class people. Oliver Twist shows Dickens' perspective of society in a realistic, original manner, which hope to change society's views by "combining a survey of the actual social scene with a metaphoric fiction designed to reveal the nature of such a society when exposed to a moral overview" (Gold 26). Dickens uses satire, humorous and biting, through pathos, and stock characters in Oliver Twist to pr...
Thomas Hardy wrote about society in the mid 1800's and his tales have rural settings in the fictional name he gave to the South-West of England, Wessex. The short stories reflect this time and the author also demonstrates the class division in rural society - rich and poor - and the closeness of the communities. Almost everyone belonged to the 'labouring classes' and worked on the land.
Life was drastically changed during the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution was a period of time where machinery was used for manufacturing massive production of goods that began in England in the middle 1700s. This revolution was significant because machinery now changed the way nations produced and distributed goods; therefore, it increased the availability and affordability of goods for all people. To understand the Industrialization Revolution, it is necessary to take a closer look at the Pre-Industrialization. During the Pre-Industrialization, most people belonged to either high or low-class not middle class, and many were farmers who lived in the countryside. Also, goods were made by hand thus the products were not readily affordable or available. However, agricultural revolution, population growth, natural resources, factors of production,inventions and transportation all contributed to the growth of the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution resulted in positive and negative changes that paved the way for the working condition and wages, living condition and reform of social class.
The Industrial Revolution was a period of time in which Great Britain saw advancements in technology, agriculture, and transportation. These changes heavily influenced the country economically and socially. The creation of the unskilled factory labor worker emerged and a movement began from rural to urban areas. With an increase in wages from factory work, the population of the country increased as well. Overall Britain was becoming smaller during this time period. The Industrial Revolution did not solely bring positive outcomes. The interactions humans once held despite social status were gradually deteriorating as values began to shift. The industrialization taking place in Britain had a great presence in current and up and coming literature. Through the years authors such as Mary Shelley, Oscar Wilde, and D.H. Lawrence created characters whose morals were altered due to the evils of industrialization despite their social classes. During the course of the eras in literature, characters began to have a shift in morals which caused the relationships held with other characters to fall apart. The presence of industrialization and its troubles amongst the range of classes is present in Frankenstein, The Importance of Being Earnest, and Lady Chatterley’s Lover.