Billions spent on weapons to kill people instead of keeping them safe.” (Ban Ki-Moon) The human rights issue addressed in this quote is one that the whole world is facing and has been facing for millennia. Poverty is the state of being poor (Meriam Webster’s Dictionary). George Henderson wrote a whole paper on what poverty is; he explains what it is like to live in poverty. He uses a lot of colorful adjectives to describe it. An example of some of the things that George Henderson says in his paper about poverty is, “Poverty is staying up all night on' cold nights to watch the fire knowing one spark on the newspaper covering the walls means you’re sleeping child dies in flames.
Stephanie Roatis 3/10/12 Fisch, Freshman English Acc. Sometimes people can escape from a hard life or a stressful time by detaching themselves from the world. In The Tenement Room, Chicago by Frank Marshall Davis, a person is trapped in a bruised and battered tenement room. The writer uses powerful techniques to paint the picture of a poverty-ridden life for an individual and uses the room as an extended metaphor for the person living in it, spiritless and defeated. During the day when everything is easily visible, the harsh points of poverty stick out and are accentuated.
In 1984 by George Orwell, revealing imagery is used to establish the mood of the society in the book. Orwell uses dark imagery, coupled with totalitarian implications, that creates the terrifying influence of the state on its people. As well, Orwell uses several animal images to represent the deterioration of humans. In the first few paragraphs of the book, Orwell uses images that appear to be old and unclean to provide a dark setting which opens the story. Winston’s experience through “the hallway [that] smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats” creates the disgusting feel of one’s life in this dystopian society.
Throughout human history, many key issues have remained constant in society. Charles Dickens in his 1837 text Oliver Twist utilises an ironic tone, symbolism, emotive and descriptive language to reveal the plights of the lower classes in Victorian England. Similarly, Danny Boyle in his 2009 film Slumdog Millionaire uses a broad range of film techniques to reveal the social injustices of modern day Mumbai, India, which is undergoing similar social changes to those seen in Victorian era England, both due to rapid industrialisation. It is the constancy of the issues of social class inequalities, spatial inequalities and the inability to turn away from crime over time represented in both Oliver Twist and Slumdog Millionaire which allows them both to speak to us, even over their differentiating time periods. Social class inequalities are one of the central themes revealed in both Oliver Twist and Slumdog Millionaire.
OUTER WORLD- social context Firstly outer world. We will be discussing the social context of Ubu Roi and how it affected Jarry’s 19th century playwright. (change slide) In early 19th century Paris was threatened by dirty and unsanitary living conditions; (change slide) coal was the main source of fuel for heating and cooking, (change slide) streets had open drains and (change slide) sewers filled with garbage and human waste. Leading to inevitably more people in the early 19th century dying of disease and illness, rather than people being born. This relates to the way Jarry describes not only the cleanliness of the people in Ubu Roi, but also shows the grossness and foulness of their very existence.
During that time in history, industrialization had low hygiene standards, poor living conditions. Overcrowding was due to the sudden movement of many people to the same area (because many farmers lost their land and jobs. Rats, insects and other pests became common. Diseases were spread more easily. Friedrich Engels stated in “The Condition of the Working Class in England”, a variety of characteristics of working class living conditions in England.
In Hard Times Dickens uses a lot of language in different styles and ways and uses characters to portray the lives of people and their lucks and misfortunes during the industrial revolution. The actual book is set in Coke Town the name Coke Town is significant to the type of place it is as coke is what you get from coal which symbolises revolution and industry. The backdrop of Coke Town is it is an industrial town and most of the residents are poor, miserable factory workers ‘it was a town of unnatural red and black like the face of a savage’ this describes what buildings in the town looked like and by describing them like faces of savages it shows that they aren’t very attractive or inviting because savages gives off the impression of death and hatred which isn’t inviting or welcoming. ‘interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves forever’ this creates a sense that the smoke is evil because using serpents as the simile makes you think of horrible and scary things. Throughout chapter 5 the writer uses lots of colours in describing the town such as the red/black brick and the ‘river that ran purple’ all the colours used in the chapter are dark and mysterious colours which adds to the facts that Coke Town is a scary, dark and unloved place.
The smog filled, dirty environment in which these men stand, slouching and hunched over, enables the viewers to see the unhappiness present on the Waterfront. The extreme cold, in which this film was shot, enables us to see the breaths of the dockworkers which suggests the extremely harsh conditions they work in and the harshness with which they are treated. Another way in which the longshoremen’s poverty is depicted is through the clothing they were. When Pop Doyle brings Dugan Joey’s jacket, due to his ‘having more holes in it than the Pittsburgh infield’, we are drawn to the details of the men’s holey jackets, and inability to afford new ones to keep them warm. This again demonstrates the amount of poverty in which they live.
In a picture from Document 8 people in poverty are shown being crowded together in a dark ally. The overcrowding caused wide spread disease. The unsanitary living conditions and the
The Inevitability of Negative Consequences of the Industrial Revolution The perception of the industrial revolution as a key factor in changing the way of life is a fair statement. It is termed a “revolution” because the changes it produced were great and sudden. This revolution first appeared in Britain in the 1700s, fostering attitudes toward capitalism and modern industry everywhere. New traditions replaced old traditions, machinery replaced people, and people moved to urban cities from rural areas; simply, the way of life had been changed forever. The industrial revolution introduced mass production and greater markets.