... produced doubts...this dazzle has too often ended in darkness." Discoveries in geology, biology, and textual scholarship shattered belief in the literal truth of the Bible. The Industrial Revolution shifted power from the landed aristocracy toward an insecure, expanding middle class of businessmen and professionals, impoverishing millions of once-rural laborers along the way. Strident, riotous ... , seen as a set of literary conventions, inscribes and presents as "natural" a specific version of reality, an equation of the "real" with the material life of a commercial, industrial society...

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... is selfish and treats everyone, even his own nephew, badly. Bob Cratchit is Ebeneezer Scrooge's nephew. Scrooge despises Christmas. He calls it, "Humbug!". Charles Dickens wrote his book during the Industrial Revolution, which is reflected in the character of Ebeneezer Scrooge. He is mean and hateful and could care less about his workers. In the story when two men came into his ... , depicting the social injustices of his time that the conscience of the country was stirred to reform (Irving 221). This was a book that was written at the time of the Industrial Revolution. Charles Dickens w...

• Word Count: 3019
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• Grade Level: High School

... in that Pip has a never ending thirst for more wealth, and more power. Along with the class system, the people were diversifying. Many new jobs sprung up due to the Industrial Revolution, giving people more opportunities to rise in the class system. "Massive expansion of local government and the centralized state, [provided] occupations for a vast strata of civil servants, teachers, doctors, ... jobs and required the "dirty " hands of a lower-class man, who was uneducated and worthless otherwise. The lower class were essentially controlled by the upper class, "Capitalists, for example, ...

• Word Count: 2674
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Although urbanisation had been a factor in society since the time of the renaissance, the Industrial revolution, and the associated growth of capitalism and industry in Victorian times saw a massive acceleration in change within both urban and rural communities. However, this change was not merely one of ... a heightened awareness and interest in science also had a great effect. This multiplicity of factors ultimately affected most of the more traditional values and attitudes prevalent in society in the pre-industrial era. As the critic Joseph Childers has noted: "The era's most conspicuous ...

• Word Count: 4617
• Approx Pages: 18
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate