Elizabeth Gaskell

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 industrialization. Gaskell conveys the danger of united labour’s action. The first half of the novel climaxes with the burning of Carson’s mill. During this scene, characters with and without interests in labour-management problems are described quite differently. For example, “the multitude in the street absolutely danced with triumph, and huzzaed, and yelled . . . and them, with all the fickleness of interest characteristic of a large body of people, pressed and stumbled, and cursed and swore” (53–54). They move together, while “the eager inquiries, the shouts, the sea-like murmurs of the moving rolling mass began again to be heard” (52–53), and “the closely-packed body of men heaved and rolled from side to side” (53). Gaskell describes them not as a violent revolutionary group but alludes to them as rolling waves; in this way, she identifies…

North and South, written by Elizabeth Gaskell, takes place in the industrial Northern English town of Milton. It talks about Margaret’s views of society and how people lived during the 19th century in what is known as Victorian, England. Written within the novel there are many social, cultural, and historical issues that arise. In the Victorian age, the class limits are exceptionally strict. Henceforth, the samples of social adjustability are exceptionally uncommon and almost inconceivable.…

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North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell is a novel that takes place in England during the mid-nineteenth century. The story revolves around Margaret Hale, a young adult clergymen’s daughter who, at the beginning of the novel, has been living with her upper class relatives in aristocratic southern England for the past ten years. The novel displays a group of changes, which appear when Margaret moves from the rural, aristocratic south to the industrialized north of England. Many of the changes that…

in race and inferior in culture to the Anglo-Saxons" (Curtis 5). In North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell, this Victorian undercurrent of anti-Irish sentiment is felt throughout the novel. The novel 's view of the Irish spans from sympathy and pity to possession and superiority. Not only is the upper-class view of the Irish present, but the working class also voices its rather different perspective of Irish immigrants. Lastly, the vein of anti-Catholicism,…

Birdsong by Stephen Faulks is a novel to show the effect war has on a person who served in battle and the importance to understand the history of war for those who wish to learn about the past. This novel is about the Great War and its impact it had on the life of Stephen Wraysford, the protagonist of the novel, and his granddaughter Elizabeth Benson. Stephen had an affair with a woman named Isabelle Azaire who ends up getting pregnant and wasn 't sure about the feelings for Stephen so she left…

Dr. Q Honors English 17/3/23 The Fundamental Actress of The Importance of Being Earnest- Dame Judi Dench “The Importance of Being Earnest” is a British comedy written by Oscar Wilde, which was transposed into a movie by the director Oliver Parker in 2002. Lady Augusta Bracknell is a dominant character which has a profound impact in both play and movie; her role is essential. She symbolizes the stereotypical upper-class woman during the Victorian Age. She is the tool through which Oscar…

turned five, the six Bronte children were left under the responsibility of their aunt. She was cold and clinical with the Brontë children, a strict disciplinarian mirroring that of aunt Reed, Charlotte even referred to her as “A stern, rather humourless woman”(Gaskell). Charlotte’s vile aunt in addition to the increasing number of deaths in her family left her feeling desolate and disheartened. Charlotte pulled from her own emotions and reactions when writing details of Jane’s time at Gateshead,…

not equals. The novels Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen describe two different classes, yet they contain two similar characters: Esther, a young woman residing with her sister and family, and Lydia Bennet, a fifteen-year-old girl living with her parents and four sisters. Both characters are bold, selfish, make rash decisions, and have grand infatuations with men and pursue militia men. However, even though these characters are similar in many ways, the…

EA In “The Crucible”, the theme that is proposed is “the truth versus faith”. Being shown throughout the play that the majority of the characters in the play are lying, for example, Proctor cheating on his wife, Elizabeth, the judge and governor lying by giving the impression that they serve the cause of God’s justice. The main lie throughout the play is “i am not a witch”.Abigail, along with the other girls, lie about their ability to see spirits. The girls are caught dancing in the forest, and…