WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
“It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood it was a town of unnatural red and black ____ It was a town of machinery and tall chimneys, out of which [endless] serpents of smoke trailed themselves forever and ever, and never got uncoiled. It had a black canal in it, and a river that ran purple with ill smelling dye ____ “What does this quote reflect?
A
unification of Italy and Germany
B
factory system
C
domestic system
D
Revolutions of 1848
Explanation: 

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.

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