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Hum 302 Pg. 2 The Industrial Revolution, which began in the heart of England, led to disorder and confusion for many of the people. The over powering of scientific method encompassed all individual thought. Reason was now used as a way to exclude human capacity for imagination and dreams. Due to the tremendous growth of industry many artisans of this Romantic and Victorian time depicted their feeling in their works and artistry. In Dickens's Hard Times, Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey," and in landscape design was the presentation of their feeling of incorporating nature with this new element. These artists demonstrated through their works that nature was a vital element of human life and must not be forgotten with the eruption of industry. In the novel Hard Times, Dickens expressed his feeling of contempt for industry and his craving for the incorporation of nature. Dickens rivaled the entire system of industrialization and what it was doing to the people and children of his time. In the book Dickens laid out pages to illustrate the harshness and coldness of this industrial city of Coketown. Dickens clearly expressed his dislike for the industrial town when he wrote, "But as matters stood it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage." (Pg. 28) This quotation shows many elements of Dickens' concerns. First, it characterizes the city as a savage, a primitive and vulgar form of human life. Second, this quotation tells of the blackness of pollution from the machinery that has forever scared the city. Finally, the magical word of "unnatural" appears to concern the heart to the happenings of the natural.
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