Social Issues Quotes
Quotations and their analysis on the topic of social issues in the Victorian period for use in the context part of the exam.
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- Social Issues
- PROSE
- Dickens, Oliver Twist
- ‘suffered the tortures of slow starvation'
- Sibilance emphasising the longitude of their suffering, makes time slow down
- ‘suffered the tortures of slow starvation'
- Engels, The Conditions of the Working Class
- "The workhouse is a jail"
- Extended metaphor through his prose
- "The workhouse is a jail"
- Tess
- ‘The little finger
of the sham D’Urberville could do more for you’
- Alec finds her in the grave of her ancestors while her family is trying to find a home
- Shows that the rich have the power - none of her ancestors can help her
- ‘The little finger
of the sham D’Urberville could do more for you’
- Dickens, Oliver Twist
- PLAY
- AWoNI
- "Things that were
out of the reach of hope before, may be in hope’s reach now"
- Act 1: Optimistic view of the permeable boundaries which Lord Illingworth shows him
- Conflates "hope" with being of a higher class - can only achieve things this way
- Lord Illingworth describes the poor as "Life's sores"
- Metaphor showing a callous lack of concern
- Lord Illingworth describes helping the poor as a "Special vice"
- Normally considered a virtue = epigram - huge debate just generalised as a vice
- Lady Caroline on the poor: "Blankets and coals should be sufficient"
- No understanding of the harshness of the poor's life
- "Things that were
out of the reach of hope before, may be in hope’s reach now"
- AWoNI
- POETRY
- A Song for the Workers
- ‘Is it just to
grasp the honey / while oppression chokes the bees’
- Metaphor for how the workers are making the rich richer - exploitation
- ‘Truth must fire her minute guns’
- Personification / metaphor = suggests truth will have little impact & military imagery suggests an ongoing battle
- ‘Is it just to
grasp the honey / while oppression chokes the bees’
- The Song of the Low
- ‘The rich are high
- for we make them so’
- Exploitation of the workers by the rich, antithesis between the classes
- "We're low, we're low - we're very very low"
- Repetition / speech = poor place
- ‘We’re far too low to vote the tax / But we’re
not too low to pay’
- Antithesis emphasising the class distinction
- ‘The rich are high
- for we make them so’
- A Song for the Workers
- PROSE
- ‘We’re far too low to vote the tax / But we’re
not too low to pay’
- Antithesis emphasising the class distinction
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