Industry Flashcards
In Manchester By Night by Mathilde Blind, How is irony achieved through contrast of imagery?
‘majestical with gimmering stars’ ‘pillars of smoke climb heavenward’ contrasts with ‘black’ ‘groan’ ‘night inclines’
How does Blind depict chaos?
through imagery such as ‘rife with intestine wars’ and ‘above her children’s turbulent ways’
What supernatural/religious/metaphysical imagery does Blind use and what effect does this achieve?
‘monstrous, sacrificial shrines’ ‘fateful’ ‘the universal hush’ ‘heavenward’
How does Blind achieve the effect of entrapment?
‘the moon athwart the narrow cloudy bars’ ‘life’s angry jars’ ‘night incines’
How does Blind achieve the idea that industry causes death?
‘as life exchanges semblances with death’ ‘toiling multitudes that hustling crush’
‘swathed within the universal hush’ is ironic as swathing is often used as a term for wrapping a baby but the swathing actually causes suffocation and everyone is helpless ‘fateful strife for bre?ath’
How does Dickens use powerful adjectives in Dombey and Son to make the train appear dangerous and terrifying?
‘forced’ ‘defiant’ ‘pierced through the heart’ ‘dragging living creatures’ ‘death’
What personification does Dickens use and what effect is achieved?
‘triumphant monster’ ‘dark breath’
What effect do the onomatopoeias achieve?
‘shriek and a rattle and a roar’
How does Dickens use the metre of the words to create an impression of the speed of the train?
‘through the woods, through the corn, through the hay’ like a list. constant description of the passing landscapes
How does Dickens show that he thinks such a machine is impossible?
juxtaposition such as ‘fierce and rapid, smooth and certain’
ideas of fantasy such as ‘through the purple distance’ ‘monster’
How does Oscar Wilde display the old-fashioned views of the upper class that industry is a negative thing?
‘In my day, Miss Worsley, one never met anyone in society who worked for their living’
How does Oscar Wilde use Gerald as a character displaying positive views about industry?
G Arbuthnot: things that were out of the reach of hope before may be within hope’s reach now
–> G.A is young and has new ideas and is open to modern change
What does Lord Illingworth say that displays Wilde’s view on industry?
L.Illingworth: To be modern is the only thing worth being nowadays
What is the situation between Lord Illingworth, Gerald Arbuthnot and his mother?
L.Illingworth is a dandy, man of his time, unconventional, forward thinking ,amoral
G. Arbuthnot: young, inexperienced, desires to find his place in society
L.I has offered to make G.A his secretary. The idea of living in a time where new possibilities are made- industry helped provoke the rise of the working class and more social mobility
L.I tells G.A how old fashioned he deems Mrs Arbuthnot - believes in the importance of forward thinking and modernity
