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industrialism and urbanism in mid ninenteenth century

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  In the mid-nineteenth century "[a]n important split takes place between knowable relationships and an unknown, unknowable, overwhelming society" (Williams)
  Compare and contrast the ways in which two writers tackle the nineteenth-century experience of industrialisation and urbanisation, and its effect on human relationships and community.
  
  
  This essay is going to look at the ways in which two writers embark upon industrialisation and urbanisation in the nineteenth century and is going to take a close look at the effects that this had on society and relationships within that society. Industrialisation basically means to adapt to industrial methods of production and manufacturing and urbanisation is the move to a town or a city. The two writers that are going to be compared are George Eliot and John Ruskin.
  George Eliot looks at this industrialisation through society in her novel 'Middlemarch.' The subtitle of this novel is "A Study Of Provincial Life" and this basically means that throughout George Eliot is representing the lives of ordinary people. All the way throughout the novel Eliot uses a metaphor of a web and she says that society functions like a giant web. She argues that each individual has a specific point in that web, and they are influenced by all other points and they influence all other points.
  One of the things that Eliot looks at is the changing social structure due to this industrialisation and urbanisation. There is increase in the middle class and due to this the social status has gone from the family name to wealth...