Industry Quotes
Mindmap of quotations and their analysis centering around the industrial theme for the context part of the exam.
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- Created on: 07-04-14 09:22
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- Industry
- PROSE
- Carlyle, The Mechanical Age
- "We war with rude nature"
- Metaphor, industry is destroying nature for mechanical purposes
- "We war with rude nature"
- John Stuart Mill
- "realises the imaginary feats of the imagination"
- Hyperbole, repetition = nothing is impossible anymore
- "realises the imaginary feats of the imagination"
- Dickens, Hard Times
- ‘The ponderous wagons which toiled along the
road’
- Personification of slow steeds hard at work = hyperbolic as even the machines suffer from the harshness of the work
- ‘The ponderous wagons which toiled along the
road’
- Engles
- "Workhouse is a jail"
- Extended metaphor
- "Workhouse is a jail"
- Carlyle, The Mechanical Age
- PLAY
- AWoNI
- Lady
Caroline: ‘In my young days […] one
never met anyone in society who worked for their living.’
- Many upper class people did not consider people who gained class through industrial wealth as rightfully owning their class
- These statements reflect the changes occurring in the Victorian era in attitudes towards industry
- Many upper class people did not consider people who gained class through industrial wealth as rightfully owning their class
- Hester: ‘in America, these are the people we respect the most’
- Although many also thought that working showed strength so they were respected
- These statements reflect the changes occurring in the Victorian era in attitudes towards industry
- Although many also thought that working showed strength so they were respected
- Lady
Caroline: ‘In my young days […] one
never met anyone in society who worked for their living.’
- AWoNI
- POETRY
- Mathilde Blind, Manchester by Night
- ‘Monstrous
sacrificial shrines’
- Metaphor, deaths of workers are for the greater good, factories are shrines for industry
- ‘Swathed within Universal hush’
- Metaphor, hypocrisy of Victorian society
- ‘As
life exchanges semblances with death’
- Antithesis, life & death are equals in the factory (predicted future)
- ‘Monstrous
sacrificial shrines’
- Mathilde Blind, Manchester by Night
- PROSE
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