A Tale Of Two Cities By Charles Dickens

Dickens describe the physical environment of a mid-19th century English factory town as somewhat an evil place. He described the town Coke Town as a place I would not want to visit at all. He begins with saying the town is a red brick or suppose to be red but the colors faded because of the smoke and ash. Therefore, leaving it a unnatural red and black “like a painted face of a savage”. Charles Dickens mostly describes the town ruined by the smoke coming from the factories. He even calls the scene a “melancholy madness” when he begins about the steam engines. He uses imagery to describe the steam-engine as a head of an elephant. He talks about how the machinery and tall chimneys, looked like serpents and how the smoke was uncoiled. Also how the smoke was like a black canal and, a river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye.

Not that he hates factories everywhere but, just the way the factories are being run. Not just the fact that kids are working in factories and not focusing on a real education but, that the working conditions on how poorly it is and unsafe for the workers. And the harsh effect the factories have on the environment. The environment is in a very poor condition as Dickens explained. Within the town one social and cultural view is that having an imagination is considered wrong and alienated even for little boys and girls. Charles Dickens states “nature was as strongly bricked out as killing airs and gases were bricked in”. To explain Charles Dickson is saying in the town Coke Town not only the physical landscape is all closed off from nature and such but, they have different social and cultural