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Mind Map by ellieharvey13, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by ellieharvey13
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Poverty + The Working Class
- Context
- Two nations between whom there is
no intercourse and no sympathy; who
are ignorant of each other's habits,
thoughts and feelings, as if they were
dwellers in different zones or
inhabitants of different planets; who
are formed by different breeding, are
fed by different food, are ordered by
different manners, and are not
governed by the same laws ... THE
RICH AND THE POOR.
- Victorian society did not recognize that there was
a lower class. 'The Poor' were invisible. Those
members of England who worked as chimney
sweeps, ratcatchers, or spent their days in factories
had no place in the echelon of the upper class,
although their services would be needed from time
to time. The prevailing attitude was that the poor
deserved the way they lived. If good moral choices
had been made, the poor wouldn't be living the way
they did. The best way for society to deal with the
poor was to ignore them. They were 'burdens on
the public'.
- Two nations between whom there is
no intercourse and no sympathy; who
are ignorant of each other's habits,
thoughts and feelings, as if they were
dwellers in different zones or
inhabitants of different planets; who
are formed by different breeding, are
fed by different food, are ordered by
different manners, and are not
governed by the same laws ... THE
RICH AND THE POOR.
- Quotes
- Prose
- 'Are they not all human
beings, with the same qualities
and power? And with the same
interests in being happy?'
- Written by Frederick Engles, in
the Condition of the Working
Class in England.
- Technique- Rhetorical Question.
- 'Are they not all human
beings, with the same qualities
and power? And with the same
interests in being happy?'
- Drama
- 'If you throw bread at the poor, it is merely
to keep them quiet for the season'.
- Spoken by Hester in A Woman
Of No Importance, against the
other women.
- Technique- Satirical / Upper Class tone.
- 'If you throw bread at the poor, it is merely
to keep them quiet for the season'.
- Poetry
- 'Poverty leads to loss of
morals in order to
survive'.
- Spoken by the maid
in 'The Ruined Maid'
when referring to
prostitution.
- THEME
- 'Poverty leads to loss of
morals in order to
survive'.
- Prose
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