ENG324Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Working Class Hero, Language Barrier, Love Triangle
Document Summary
First industry to be industrialized was the textile (cotton) industry. Society gets divided between the upper and lower classes. Structured the novel in a bunch of encounters between the rich and the poor. Takes place in what is known as the hungry 40"s . Working class are asking for food and rights. Gaskell stresses in the preface that she doesn"t attend for novel to spark a revolution of the working class. Gaskell is a middle class women speaking to her own class. Novel begins with the discussion of women as factory workers and esther (mary"s aunt) Asked to change title, which shifts emphasis to mary. Esther is a prostitute, a fallen women . John barton doesn"t want his daughter to be a factory worker women should never work in the factory . Novels represent the realities of the time. Women are now starting to go work in the factories with the men.
