Starter quiz
- Another way of saying viewpoint is...
- objective
- perspective ✓
- subjective
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- If something is oppressive it is...
- harsh, cruel and unfair ✓
- kind, gentle and caring
- neutral, calm and peaceful
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- What connotations do we tend to have of cities?
- they are busy places ✓
- they are polluted ✓
- there is a lot of open space
- they are very clean
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- What does 'rural' relate to?
- towns
- cities
- the countryside ✓
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- What does the Industrial Revolution refer to?
- the transition from creating goods by hand to using machines ✓
- the transition from farming to making clothes
- the transition from creating goods using machines to by hand
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- Language which is suggestive but not certain in nature is known as ______ language.
- 'tentative' ✓
Exit quiz
- What is being described here: 'the process of transforming the economy from a focus on agriculture to a reliance on manufacturing.'?
- oppression
- industrialisation ✓
- trivialising
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- ______ refers to the position from which something is viewed.
- 'perspective' ✓
- The perspective of 'In a London Drawingroom ' could be a critique of the ______ classes during the Industrial Revolution.
- lower
- middle
- upper ✓
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- George Eliot's work often depicted ______ life.
- 'rural' ✓
- What was true of the Industrial Revolution in Britain?
- cities became more polluted ✓
- the poor benefited from mass production
- people moved away from the countryside ✓
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- What does Eliot suggest about the Industrial Revolution in 'In a London Drawingroom'?
- it harmed nature ✓
- it led to oppression ✓
- it benefited the factory workers
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Key learning points
- Arguably, Eliot wrote under a pseudonym because she wanted to be seen as saying something important about society.
- Eliot often wrote about rural life and the disparity between the poor and the rich.
- Eliot would likely have critiqued the Industrial Revolution for the shift away from nature and the working conditions.
- The perspective of the poem could be a critique of the upper classes during the Industrial Revolution.
- The poem suggests that the Industrial Revolution harmed nature and lead to oppression.
Common misconception
That we should consider imagery at literal, face value.
While considering the literal meaning is good for our understanding, we want to move beyond that to consider what a quotation or image symbolises and what it is saying about the wider ideas in the poem.
Keywords
Industrialisation - the process of transforming the economy from a focus on agriculture to a reliance on manufacturing.
Trivial - of little value or importance.
Obscured - unclear and difficult to understand or see.
Perspective - refers to the position from which something is viewed.
Oppressive - a situation in which people are governed in an unfair and cruel way.
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