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Coketown
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Hard Times
Hard Times
- by Charles Dickens in 1854
- DENUNCIATION NOVEL against the negative effects of industrial society and the living conditions of the poor and the worker
Coketown
imaginary industrialised town where Hard Times is set
Coketown
General description of the town
General description of the town
Visual Description
Typical Worker Life
Sound Description
- building windows where there was a rattling and trembling
- a town of red brick
- smoke
"it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage"
- people equally like one another
- go in and out at the same hours
- same sound
- same pavements
- same work
- every day was the same of yesterday and tomorrow
- every year the counterpart of the last and the next
- tall chimney
- serpents of smoke
The jail might have been the infirmary, the infirmary might have been the jail, the town-hall might have been either, or both, or anything else
- machinery
- piston worked up and down "like the head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness"
- a black canal
- a purple river with ill-smelling dye
Problems
Problems
Physical danger
Atmosphere of pollution created by the tall chimney and machinery;
Lack of sanity conditions
Psycological danger
People are described like one another so they communicate the monotony of life in this industrialized town;
Alienation
Noise pollution
Loss of personality;
Mass society
The End
Created by Zanasi Alice
20th December 2017