Question
'The growth of industry was accompanied by an economic philosophy which celebrated the pursuit of profit and undervalued the lives of workers'.
How do the novelist describe this in their novels?
Solution
The description of novelist:
(i)Charles Dickens in his novel 'Hard Times' describes Coketown, a fictitious industrial town, as a grim place full of machinery, smoking chimneys, rivers polluted purple and buildings that all looked the same.
(ii)Here workers are known as ‘hands’, as if they had no identity other than as operators of machines.
(iii)Dickens criticised not just the greed for profits but also the ideas that reduced human beings into simple instruments of production
(iv)In other novels too, Dickens focused on the terrible conditions of urban life under industrial capitalism. His 'Oliver Twist' is the tale of a poor orphan who lived in a world of petty criminals and beggars.
(v)Emile Zola’s 'Germinal' on the life of a young miner in France explores in harsh detail the grim conditions of miners’ lives.
(i)Charles Dickens in his novel 'Hard Times' describes Coketown, a fictitious industrial town, as a grim place full of machinery, smoking chimneys, rivers polluted purple and buildings that all looked the same.
(ii)Here workers are known as ‘hands’, as if they had no identity other than as operators of machines.
(iii)Dickens criticised not just the greed for profits but also the ideas that reduced human beings into simple instruments of production
(iv)In other novels too, Dickens focused on the terrible conditions of urban life under industrial capitalism. His 'Oliver Twist' is the tale of a poor orphan who lived in a world of petty criminals and beggars.
(v)Emile Zola’s 'Germinal' on the life of a young miner in France explores in harsh detail the grim conditions of miners’ lives.
