Haxhi Pista
Professor Ryan, McCormick
Assignment # Paper 1 Draft 2
Tuesday, April 01, 2014
Section #1
The Tartarus of Maids
Industrial Revolution made people to change their way of living. Most of the humans today do not act how they want but how they must. We see industrialization as the source of the highest living standards that we enjoy in our everyday modern life. In fact this is true but industrial modernization creates a lot of influence on how humans are living by how much they are connected with the nature, and their interaction with the society. A good example of an industrialized life is "The Tartarus of Maids,” written by Herman Melville, which is a story about a man from the upper middle class who goes to purchase envelopes for his seed company in paper factory, located deep in the mountains. In the beginning, he understands that the world is not as it seems to be like. He thought that modernization by developing industry is creating a good life for humans, but the reality is different. As much as these machines create life, they also destroy it. In this essay, I will present how narrator through the “Tartarus of Maid” story represent modern culture and the impact of industry modernization in human life, such as the isolation of humans from the world, separation from the nature, and industrialization causes more human diversity so it makes division of people into social classes.
To begin with, the narrator sees industrialization as a factor that has isolated human beings from the world. He presents a group of society who do not do anything except eat, drink, and work in the paper factory. Maids who work for this company are away from the real world and connection with other humans. In this story, the scene looks dar...
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...ultural shift from ancient to modern culture by the effects of the industrial revolution which has lost the value of humanity. Modernization has a huge impact on humans’ life. On the one hand, it changed our life by making things easier. On other hand, it is destroying it by isolating people from the world, giving them less opportunity to interact with each other and the ability to create a new generation. Furthermore, it is separating humans from nature by making them live away from nature, and damaging their health by pollution and artificial things that are produced. As well, it has created diversity among the people by dividing them into classes based on gender and socioeconomic status. So, this cultural shift from ancient to modern has a huge influence on human life, and it remains to see how much the industrial revolution over time will influence society.
The factory whistle blows right in the middle of your favorite dream. You wake up in a startle as you glance at the clock. 5:30 am. You rush to get out of bed, seeing that you have to get to work in 30 minutes. You splash some water on your face, brush your teeth, put on some fine factory clothes, pull your hair back, grab an apple and run as fast as a gazelle. The Industrial Revolution had both positive and negatives on the lives of adults and children during that time period.
The mid 19th century is one of the major turnaround in the history of the United States. That is the time when America became an Industrial giant and emerged as one of the powerful countries in the world. Industrial revolution changed the people’s way of living in the whole world especially the United States from hand and home productivity to machine and factory. America rose from rural and agricultural country to an urban-industrial that introduces new technologies. United States has been through a lot of ups and down in spite of its emergence and three books tells the story of the Industrial America in three different perspectives. Each of these perspectives creates the whole idea of what Industrial Revolution is all about.
Industrialization finally results in the separation of the classes and the subsequent dialectical tension of production and consumption. This dualistic separation is made possible through the machine, the integral element that cements the unequal distribution of power. In his moral diptych, Melville questions industrialization by exploring these class divisions and the power relations within them. Ultimately, he concludes that it results in an exploitative system that thrives on both connection and isolation. Although the two spheres are physically and emotionally separated, they depend on each other for their continuation. Melville’s “The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids” expertly shows this interrelationship between the owners of the means of production (the bachelors) and the workers (the maids), and how it finally results in the oppression of the workers.
The Industrial Revolution was a booming age for the United States that, though it brought many improvements in technology, caused many controversial events to take place.. Through the story Life in the Iron-mills, Rebecca Harding Davis proves the negativity of the factories from the Industrial Revolution. She proves this from personification, symbolism/metaphors, and also visual imagery. Rebecca Harding Davis proves through her writing, that the effect of industrialism in not pretty.
It exposes how the higher social classes were blinded by their very own success and how they did not care about the people that was making it possible for them to live their upper-class life style. Thus, factory workers, their families, and other unskilled laborers were forced to live in an overcrowded, tarnished houses and very small apartments. Because of their mistreatment and struggling condition, they suppress their problems and emotions by indulging in the comforts of alcohol consumption. Davis imagery allows the readers to connect to the “reality of soul-starvation, of living death, that meets you every day under that besotted faces on the street”. “Life in the Iron Mills,” exposes the truth and the misery of the struggles of the working class and how unjust the American class structure
The textile workers at the O.P. Henry Mill are used to struggle and adversity as both characterized thier employment in the factory and the hardships they had to face in their everyday lives. Many of the factory employees had been working in the mill for their entire lives, enduring the worker cruelty that the company dealt out with alarming regularity. However, many of the workers in the factory had little or no choice in seeking other employment, as the Textile Mill was the largest employer in the area, especially for unskilled laborers. While the employees were not forced to work in the factory, they stayed so as not to risk unemployment.
The Industrial Revolution was a time of great change and increased efficiency. No more would be goods be produced by sole means of farming and agriculture, but now by the use of machinery and factories. Technology was beginning to increase along with the food supply as well as the population. However, this increase in population would greatly impact the social aspect of that time. Urbanization was becoming much more widespread. Cities were becoming overwhelmingly crowded and there was an increase in disease as well as harsh child labor. Although child labor would be reduced somewhat due to unions, the Industrial Revolution still contained both it’s positive and negative results.
+++====In short, American life was altered by the Industrial Revolution, not just in terms of materials, and increased production, but in American standards of living, but of how people in America lived and worked together. The American public began to praise advancements of technology as signifying advancements in society. However, we must remember there were other social, cultural, and political consequences of the Industiral Revolution’s influence on American society; ones which lead to things such as unions, as well as concerns with the rights of the
Industrial Revolution, which took place over much of the nineteenth century, had many advantages. It provided people with tools for a better life; people were no longer dependent on the land for all of their goods. The Industrial Revolution made it possible for people to control nature more than they ever had before. However, now people were dependent on the new machines of the Industrial Age (1). The Revolution brought with it radical changes in the textile and engine worlds; it was a time of reason and innovations. Although it was a time of progress, there were drawbacks to the headway made in the Industrial Revolution. Granted, it provided solutions to the problems of a world without industry. However, it also created problems with its mechanized inventions that provided new ways of killing. Ironically, there was much public faith in these innovations; however, these were the same inventions that killed so many and contributed to a massive loss of faith. These new inventions made their debut in the first world war (2) ).
The novella is set in the early 1800’s, which is during the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution marked a period of technological advancement. As technology advancement increased, work at factories became popular. Workers began to abandon their craft and moved to urban areas to find jobs. Also, fewer workers were needed because machines began to replace their craft. Workers who lost their jobs due to the machines felt dehumanized because their craft was deteriorating. Furthermore, human connections also decreased as a result of the factory work scene.
The workers at the factories during this time had to endure unsettling events in their lives due to the conditions of the factories during this era. Accounts of children working in these factories depict an unsafe environment. For example one account said that a brother and his sister got caught in a machine and endured severe injuries, the boy’s legs, arms and face was destroyed and killed
In this book Charles Dickens basically explains to us how human beings were being turned into machines. Repression caused by the Industrial Revolution dulled fantasies and feelings and people became almost mechanical themselves. This novel shows us that a person's natural tendencies or urges need to be handled carefully by that person's environment and education. Through the processes of sowing, reaping and garnering he was able to explain the mechanizing effects of industrialization.
The narrator explains the production of factory workers, the maid especially girls and complain about their fate, lack humanity on them, but ultimately escape from it. The factory is composing of numerous women, who devoted their entire life for the production of the paper from the machine. Literally, they are considering as a machine and he feel very unconscious about the factory environment which fills undefinable imagination. Narrator mentioned, “Yours is a most wonderful factory. Your great machine is a miracle of inscrutable intricacy (Melville 1270)”. The factory is confusing and tough to investigate what is going on there. The women workers in the factory are hard to recognize; however, their work make it clear and concise. He is sympathetic
The Industrial Revolution was a period from 1750 to 1850 where agriculture, manufacturing, transportation, and technology went through a period of significant change. These changes had a profound impact on the social and cultural conditions of the time, beginning in the Untied Kingdom and spreading throughout Western Europe, North America, and the rest of the world. The Industrial Revolution, considered a major turning point in history, effected almost every aspect of daily life; through new discoveries in technology came new jobs; through new jobs came new working conditions; through new working conditions came new laws and new politics, the repercussions of which extend to today. As Crump emphasizes: ‘The world as we have come to know it in the twenty-first century is impossible to understand without looking at the foundations laid – mainly in the English-speaking world of the eighteenth century – in the course of what is now known, but not then, as the ‘Industrial Revolution’ .
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.