Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton
Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton
Although the people of a single nation share the same homeland, contradictory these people live in separate worlds. In the lives of the privileged and the unfortunate they are separated between their positions in the social ladder, which is defined by their financial stability. In Elizabeth Gaskell's, Mary Barton the different worlds of the wealthy is contrasted to those of the poor. Gaskell's attention to detail emphasizes the division among the two social classes, demonstrating the lavish and luxurious lives of the upper class as it is contrasted to those of the impoverish and disheartening lives of the lower class, while also developing characterization, illustrating the character's reactions to the opportunities that they have and don't have. The inclusion of dialogue becomes displays the inequality between the two social classes, reinforcing the superiority of the upper class over the lower class. Gaskell's passage becomes a social......
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