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There had been so little communication between these two-both because life at Stone Lodge went monotonously round like a piece of machinery which discouraged human interference” (P. 53) This exemplifies that the machines of Coketown really did separate people even of the rich and in the middle class. Stone Lodge is the place of where Mr. Gradgrind lives and because he believes in such a machine like surrounding, his house is like a machine. Dickens tries to show that machines have cost suffering for both families of the working class and the middle class and that none of the classes were really excluded from its wrath on them. 7. “In the hardest working part of Coketown; in the innermost fortifications of that ugly citadel, where Nature was as strongly bricked out as killing airs and gases were bricked in;” (P. 59) The poor and working class of the city lived in a separate part of town away from the rich and powerful.
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