HISTORY
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
Question
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unification of Italy and Germany
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factory system
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domestic system
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Revolutions of 1848
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Detailed explanation-1: -This town is considered a triumph of facts, it is a town of red bricks, which are not red anymore because of the smoke and pollution which has made them black, they are compared to the painted face of a savage, that gives the idea of danger and chaos.
Detailed explanation-2: -In this example, Dickens uses the alliterative words serpents of smoke as a metaphor for the imagery of the polluting smoke spiralling continuously from the chimneys of Coketown factories. The use of the word serpent is a biblical reference to represent the evil and poisonous, even Satanic, attribute of the smoke.
Detailed explanation-3: -Coketown is a fictional industrial city in Charles Dicken’s novel, Hard Times. He wrote it as a protest against industrialization, which he considered harmful to nature and to the human spirit and imagination.