Industrial Age

In this lesson we talked about Industrial age , consequences of this and 'a modest proposal' written by Jonathan Swift.

    In industrial age we can easily notice some advance in trade and agriculture at the same time in some areas socio-economic wellbeing. Factories were established almost everywhere in London. Thanks to this , such a lot person worked in this factories. However , this situation had some disadvantages , too. Some poor family's children  worked and they were even 5 years old. There were so much child death. They lived in overcrowded house , resulting from hygiene problems, there became a lot outbreak and so may people mostly children died.

     Poor life is one side of London but other side is much better for the rich . Thanks to industrial age the rich became richer so they began to interest in literature and they started to read book (because of book price , just rich people could read ) . At the same time they had coffee house where they read book , newspaper etc.

      Thanks to their wellbeing , literature gained power , especially prose . However poetry and drama did not take interest as much as prose . Jonathan Swift wrote 'a modest proposal' , it is satire .Swift criticizes other side of London , death of this children . He criticizes the government. He says ''If we do not know what to do with this children , we can 'eat ' them . The solution is so brilliant and crazy .He makes some calculations too. Even this satire could tell us this term.

     To sum up, industrial age was mixed term for England . There was social inequality : the poor were poorer , the rich were richer .