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Galsworthy and Gaskell
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Compare the ways in which Galsworthy and Gaskell present the conflict between the 2 different classes. Gaskell and Galsworthy in their works 'Mary Barton' and 'Strife' address the issue of class difference in the 19th and 20th century. Both writers, set apart by sixty years have been influenced by the trade union movement. 'Mary Barton' highlights the appalling state of the industrial cities through the setting of Manchester, encapsulating urban poverty and Chartism. Similarly 'Strife' through depicting a mining strike shows the divisions and strains between the working and middle class. The extract from 'Mary Barton' opens with the union representative, a 'Londoner' who 'rapidly dictated resolutions' to improve the conditions of the workforce. The unnamed Londoner represents the idea of alienation in a foreign environment and a lack of emotion to the reader. The 'great orator' represents 'money in real; clinking blinking golden sovereigns,' this onomatopoeia used by...
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