Essays on North and South

The novel North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell represents social inference and complications of citizens of England, the town which is called Milton (originally Manchester). The author used the model of Margaret Hale as women’s role and female treatment in that period of time. In…

North and South, an industrial novel by the English writer Elizabeth Gaskell, presents to us the disparate perspectives of capitalist mill-owners and their factory workers, of ‘masters and men’, as they are called in the novel. The plight of the working classes was a commonly…

Introduction The social structure in Victorian England was rigid and fixed, so any drift of change was highly judged. Gaskell’s novel “North and South” explores that, through situations, through characters, through war and peace. It is a novel about social structures, about respecting authority and…

Elizabeth Gaskell’s novel North and South is a tale of contradictions. Looking at the title, it presents the obvious, the distinctions between the northern rural industrial towns and the southern high-class cities. If we take a closer look, the novel also proposes the expectations and…

Writing a Stronger and Equal Woman At the turn of the nineteenth century, England entered a phase thereafter known as the “Victorian Era.” Following this new era was a tide of change, especially with the rise of industrialization and the class of mill and factory…

A lot of the white settler’s views on slavery were based on where they resided: the south or north. The south contained a lot more slavery as they were a lot less strict with their views on the slaves and how they treated them. Due…