... smoke trailed themselves forever and ever, and never got uncoiled. It had a black canal in it and a river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye. (30) Associating Coketown with "the painted face of a savage" implies that the growing urbanization is in reality the opposite of what it claims to be; rather than modern and civilized, it is harsh and barbaric. With this symbolic painting ... a whole; Dickens harshly and bitterly depicts these notices as void of any feeling or emotion, lacking any character or softness: "All the public inscriptions in the town were painted alike, in severe cha...

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