Chartism

Prompt 1 Groups of oppressed people tend to rise and either replace what they found as flawed as reformists or push for a change in the system as revolutionaries. The oppressed group of peasants in Lope de Vega’s play Fuente Ovejuna rose up against their abusive leader Commander Fernán Gómez de Guzmán, because they wanted to push for a replacement in their village’s leader and disliked his ways. The Commander mistreated the people that he ruled over to the point of denying them of their own…

Following this repeal, there were attempts to set up national unions such as the NAPL or the GNTCU, although their lifespans were very short as most disbanded within a year, despite their short lifespans these national unions they were present at political protests. The NAPL were present during the Merthyr rising and the GNTCU were present at the Trial of the Toldpuddle Martyrs and due to them being present this made the government fear the growth of unions as they represented the man on trial.…

Revolutions are a natural part of human history. Ever since people could be their minds, they’ve had differing opinions. These opinions, if left unlistened to, will cause revolts that scale into revolutions. These revolutions can either be passive or they leave a pool of red in their wake. One revolution of red became the most successful revolutions during this period. The French Revolution had some winning points to its cause. It was the start of people changing the way they think.The people…

The main reason behind was poverty caused by industrialisation and the changes occurred because of it. As I have mentioned before, one change that will threat the Victorian society will be the Chartism. This types of movements were formed in the working class communities, trying to fight for higher pay and working conditions and also for the rising of food prices, which will lead to revolutions against factory masters and government. This type…

Chartism was a mass movement driven by the working class. The working class wanted to extended voting rights beyond those owning property, believing every men should have the right to vote. Voting should be located in secret ballots and elections should be held each year. They wanted members of the parliament to be paid and property qualifications for becoming a parliament member to be abolished. The Chartist movement requests were radicals to those not involved in the movement. People began…

Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton focuses on the early 1840s, a decade known as the Hungry Forties. Through the story, Gaskell expresses her sympathy for the labourers who suffer economic hardships and social problems. However, when they combine forces, she describes them with fear; the narrator states that “combination is an awful power” (168). The period in which Gaskell lived saw the important innovations of the Industrial Revolution and accompanying social problems because of increasing…

The French Revolution had numerous reasons for the revolt. Financial crisis, the Enlightenment, and social changes throughout France were the key reasons behind it. The monarchy had made poor financial decisions during the 18th century. They had to borrow money from foreign nations increasing their debt and leading to their inevitable bankruptcy. Then they had a poor harvest of wheat in 1788 and had high bread prices in 1789 this made it hard on struggling families. Louis XVI and his wife Marie…

At every new civilisation level, great transformation occurs and the world and society are given new looks. Industrial Revolution has developed and have greatly impacted to everyone living on earth. Technologies and new concepts are introduced to promote a more modern society, which created convenience for the people but as well as some negative impacts like overpopulation. With these continuous changes, humans are walking nearer and nearer to the modern and mechanised world.…

Karl Marx defines another condition necessary to the rise of communism as the intensification of social polarity, and the class antagonisms that follow. The presence of these two conditions is essential to the rise of communism over the ashes of capitalism. Thus, he explains that our age of capitalism “has simplified class antagonisms” and “society as a whole is more and more splitting up… …into two great classes facing each other: the bourgeoisie and the proletariat” (Marx 15). With the…

to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. (ch. 12)” This passage was considered so shocking that conservative commentators such as Lady Elizabeth Eastlake likened its tone to ‘Chartism’ , the…