Charles Dickens - Coketown PDF

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CHARLES DICKENS - COKETOWN

Charles Dickens was born in England in 1812. His unhappy childhood and frustrated feelings toward the corrupted society he was living in, flew into his novels. He wrote masterpieces such as Oliver Twist and David Copperfield. His novel Hard Times (1954) is particulary relevant since it is a novel of social criticism. Dickens in fact, criticizes the materialism and narrow-mindedness of Utilitarianism which was the basic attitude during the Victorian Age. It is set in an imaginary town named Coketown. The description of the town is sorrounded by onomatopeyc words which recall monotony and sameness. Dickens writes of Coketown as a town made of red brick, which colour does not show because of the smoke and ashed that the chimneys and machineries have released. The colours of the town in general are innatural, the black canal, the river that ran purple, the black and white. Charles Dickens uses similies and metaphores to emphasize the boredom of the town and its sadness. The city appears lonely. The monotonous up and down of the steam engine brings in mind the head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness. The alliterative use of the language is connected to the workers’ conditions because the big amount of hours they had to do broght the individual to act almost like robot during the Industrial Revolution. The public inscriptions in the town are painted alike with no possibility of distinguish the jail from the infirmatory or the town-hall to the both of them. The buildings are like one another so do the people of the town. All they talk about is facts. The alienation of the individual is surely one of the main points Dickens wants to highlight....