Thursday, September 25, 2008
Language and Marxism
Frederich Engels wrote The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1845. Describe in this entry, the specific tone and diction of this passage. MAKE SURE to USE SPECIFIC EXAMPLES FROM THE TEXT. Highlight and underline if necessary. PICK AT LEAST TWO (2) EXAMPLES FROM THE READING to discuss in your blog entry.
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In The Conditionof the Working Class in England, by Frederich Engels it has very specific tone and diction. I believe that his tone in this passage is descriptive. One example of this is when he says, “There was, further, a constant increase in the demand for the home market, keeping pace with the slow increase in population and employing all the workers; and there was also the impossibility of vigorous competition of the workers among themselves, consequent upon the rural dispersion of their homes.” He uses descriptive tone in this by just describing the working class in Europe and not attacking anyone. He also does not try to convince anyone to do anything.
Another quote, “Before the introduction of machinary, the spinning and weaving of raw materials was carried onin the workingman’s home.” This describes the diction in this passage, which is very clear and precise. He did not use really big words in it, Engels spoke in simple words not complex.
-S. Everhart-
In Engels' "The Condition of the Working Class in England", he uses a forthright or honest tone with the reader. He is straight to the point without hesitation and doesn't use high level diction (like harsh words) to get to the reader. He explains how the working class was like in the 1840's.
Two quotes, "Before the introduction of machinery, the spinning and weaving of raw materials was carried on in the workingman's home" and "There was, further, a constant increase in the demand for the home market, keeping pace with the slow increase in population and employing all the workers; and there was also the impossibility of vigorous competition of the workers among themselves, consequent upon the rural dispersion of their homes.
In these quotes, he uses common diction and plain tone words, to define the lifestyle of the working class in England. He doesn't use a nonpartisan tone in his writing and a common type of diction. He talks about the competition for goods is low, so people continue to do this all their lives. He is able to persuade and talk about a subject, in this case being the worker's lifestyle in England in the 1800's, without being biased.
He obviously has an opinion, but doesn't seem to express it quite often in his common, straightforward-toned writing.
In The Condition of the Working Class in England, Frederich Engels states that the industrial revolution made workers worse off than if there was no idustrial rev. With statements like "before the introduction of machinery, the spinning and weaving of raw materials was carried on in the workingmans home", the tone would be considered negative.
A major words that stuck out to me when reading it was vigorous competition, constant increase in demand with slow increase in population. This makes it seem like englands economy was growing too fast for the population. More Job oppurnunies were needed than people.
In my recent readings of “The Condition of the Working Class in England”, by Frederich Engels, he displays specific tone and diction. Tone describes a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages. Diction, on the other hand, is the choice and use of words in speech or writing.
In this passage, Engels speaks in a impartial tone. An example of this is represented when he says, “We have not, here and now, to deal with the history of this revolution, nor with its vast importance for the present and the future. This is a good example of Engels’ impartial tone.
Engels also speaks in very clear and precise diction. An example of his diction is when he states, “There was, further, a constant increase in the demand for the home market, keeping pace with the slow increase in the demand for the home market…” Engels speaks with clarity and his word choice his excellent because his writing flows very well. This is a clear example of how Engels diaplays specific diction.
-V. Gobble-
The tone of Frederich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England was sympathetic. Frederich writes, “In spite of all this, the English middle-class, especially the manufacturing class, which is enriched directly by means of the poverty of the workers, persists in ignoring this poverty. This class, feeling itself the mighty representative class of the nation, is ashamed to lay the sore spot of England bare before the eyes of the world; will not confess, even to itself, that the workers are in distress, because it, the property-holding, manufacturing class, must bear the moral responsibility for this distress." The selection talks about how the poverty of the people is ignored and how the workers are in distress. He states that now the working people have to bear all of this distress and these problems which is why we should be sympathetic for the working class.
In the essay, Frederich asks," The question: What is to become of those destitute millions, who consume today what they earned yesterday; who have created the greatness of England by their inventions and their toil; who become with every passing day more conscious of their might, and demand, with daily increasing urgency, their share of the advantages of society?" When he asks this question it makes you think about what conditions the working class that loses their jobs must go through. It makes you wonder and really want to answer the question, until you realize that you do not have an answer. Then you begin to feel sympathetic for all of the people that are laid off because of machinery.
--Sharlese Hall
In The Condition of the Working Class in England, Frederich Engels states that the industrial revolution made workers worse off than if there was no idustrial rev. With statements like "before the introduction of machinery, the spinning and weaving of raw materials was carried on in the workingmans home", the tone would be considered negative.
A major words that stuck out to me when reading it was vigorous competition, constant increase in demand with slow increase in population. This makes it seem like englands economy was growing too fast for the population. More Job oppurnunies were needed than people.
-ralph woods-
I beleive in Engels' essay The Condition of the Working Class in Englad he wants us to understand what these people were going through. His tone was an empathetic one. He wanted us to feel sorry for them, so we could relate to them and feel what they were going through. For example, he stated "But intellectually, they were dead;lived only for petty,private interest,for their looms and gardens,and knew nothing of the mighty movement which, beyond their horizon,was sweeping through mankind." He portrayed them as almost un-informed about what truely matters.
Frederich Engels later stated "The condition of the working-class is the condition of the vast majority of the English people. The question: What is to become of those destitute millions, who consumes today what they earned yesterday". Through this he used diction to support what i explained earlier, that he is presenting a tone of empathy. He wants us to feel the struggle that the working class is going through. By using this, we can relate to the working class because everyone goes through similar stuggles at one time or another.
-A.Burchel-
In Frederich Engels' "The Condition of the Working Class in England" he displays a pragmatic tone. Throughout his introduction he makes it very clear he is on neither side of working class and the rich. He said "For the moment, we must limit ourselves to the little that is necessary for understanding the fact that follow, for comprehending the present state of the English proletariat." In this quote he shows his practical thought of talking about the present and taking it one day at a time.
The diction was very calm yet brutal in a sence to get his point of invention and progress across. "And there was also the impossibility of vigorous competition of the workers among themselves". This is a prime example of the raw truth displayed in the artical.
-J Baranowski
The Condition of the Working Class in England,written by Frederich Engels, wants the reader to understand just how the industrial revolution affect the people. An example of this is: "In spite of all this, the English middle-class, especially the manufacturing class, which is enriched directly by means of the poverty of the workers, persists in ignoring this poverty."
The passage is simple in the fact that it is direct in that he states: "The rapid extension of manufacture demanded hands, wages rose, and troops of workmen migrated from the agricultural districts to the towns. Population multiplied enormously, and nearly all the increase took place in the proletariat."
~W. Horne~
The overall tone describing the text, Condition of the Working Class, by Engels, would be described as sympathetic and depressing. Engels wanted the audience to feel and understand what the working class felt as they were being replaced by the machines. The jenny was invented and put a lot of weavers out of work. They could work and try but because manufactures could do it faster and with less man power then they could afford to do it cheaper. “Single capitalists began to set up spinning Jennies in great buildings and to use water-power for driving them, so placing themselves in a position to diminish the number of workers, and sell their yarn more cheaply than spinners could do…”
“Scornful smile; enriched…….by poverty” He uses contradictory language to get his thoughts and views across. He wants the audience to be sympathetic but still yet, know the facts. Engels wasn’t looking just win sympathy but he wanted people to understand what the Industrial Revolution did to the working class and how it affected their life. He wanted the readers to understand the working class and their struggle.
♥♪*S.Thomas*♪♥
Frederich Engles wrote The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1845. This article discusses the situations of people in Europe during the Industrial Revolution. Frederich Engels wants us to feel for the people who have lost their jobs to machinery. However, I feel that Engles explains their situation in a straight forward and factual way. For example, he talks about the way things were manufactured before the introduction of machinery, “Wife and daughter spun the yarn that the father wove or that they sold, if he did not work it up himself.” He also states,
L.Gonzalez
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Engel's tone in "The Condition of the Working Class in England" is very informative and regretful of the industrial revolution. He informs us about the revoultion, but shows that there were also negative consequences. Even though the industrail revolution created prosperity, the economy was not doing very well.
Engel said, "The consequences were...a rapid fall in price of all manufactured commodoties, unprotected foreign markets, destruction of all property-holding and of all security of employment for the working class, etc"
The diction of this passage included many statistics. For an example, there were statistics that included the rise of cotton production before and during the industrial evolution. It had risen over the years.
Another thing Engel discussed about was the uninformed people during the industrial revolution.
"But intellectually, they (the people who were not exposed to the industrial revolution yet) were dead....and knew nothing of the mighty movement which, beyond their horizon, was sweeping through mankind."
This can bring us back to Plato's "Allegory of the Cave". They were not informed about the industrial revolution, so they continued working with non-machinery products. Therefore, spreading information is major to a person's living style.
--T.Xiong
In Frederich Engels, "The condition of the working class in England in 1845,"I believe that he uses a sympathetic tone, because he is trying to get the people reading the essay feel sorry for the people in the economy.
An example of this sympathetic tone would be, "In truth, they were not human beings; they were merely toiling machines in the service of the few aristocrats who had guided history down to that time."
He used simple but yet complex diction in some parts of the essay explaining how the economy was and how the people in the economy worked and how the people were like machines.
An example of complex diction would be,” But intellectually, they were dead; lived only for their petty, private interest, for their looms and gardens and knew nothing of the mighty movement which, beyond their horizon, was sweeping through mankind. This meaning that they only lived through what other people wanted and they were basically dead because they wasn’t who they wanted to be.
-d.fivecoat
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In Engels' passage, Condition of the Working Class in England, he has a emphatic approach for a tone with the intent to inform about the different conditions. An example of this would be when he says: "We have not, here and now, to deal with the history of this revolution, nor with its vast importance for the present and the future..." In this he his emphatic on the issue of the history of the Industrial Revolution and its importance in both the present working class of England and the working class of England post-Industrial Revolution.
The diction of Engles' passage is pretty straight forward. He expresses his ideas with simple wording making it to where he gets straight to the point about the topics. An example would be when he says: "These inventions gave rise, as is well known, to an industrial revolution, a revolution which altered the whole civil society; one, the historical importance of which is only now veginning to be recognised." Here, he expresses his idea of society changing as a result of the industrial revolution with simple words that both give understanding to his idea and lead to a vague concept of what he is trying to have his readers understand.
~Robert Gray
In The Condition of the Working Class in England, Fredrich Engels describes how the english had to work hard everyday to make a living. I believe that his tone in the entry is informative. I believe it is informative because I believe he wants his audienece to be informed of the daily struggles of the working class in 1845. His diction may be informative because he states the statistics that were on the rise as result of the inventions.
Fredrich Engels says, "Before the introduction of machinery, the spinning and weaving of raw materials was carried on in the workingman's home". This means that before all of the inventions were made the working class had to do all of the work in the home. This quote also shows how big of an impact the inventions had on the working class in 1845.
Another quote by Fredrich Engels was "There was, further, a constant increase in the demand for the home market, keeping pace with the slow increase in population and employing all the workers; and there was also the impossibility of vigorous competition of the workers among themselves, consequent upon the rural dispersion of their homes". This means that the inventions made by the English working class was to make their way of living easier for themselves and others.
I believe these quotes were informative because Fredrich Engels wanted the audience to learn how the English worked and the demands they had to make production more rapid.
T.Hearst
The tone set in play for this specific passage would be informative and persuasive. The author includes the vast importance of the Industrial Revolution and how it helped out the proletariat.
It informs me on how much the working class needed the revolution. Before this rotation, the commoners were doing all there work by hand. This incorporates weaving, knitting, and other crafts that took rational amounts of time.
Without the Revolution, the world would not have been able to press toward the subsequent. This run forward helped get the world into a new age. Technoligical advancements are strongly needed to pick up the world and get it moving to the future.
~Erin G.
Engels’ goal is to make the reader think that the working class in England was self-sufficient but lazy. No matter how much they gained, their conditions worsened. Engel said, “True he was a bad farmer and managed his land inefficiently, often obtaining poor crops; nevertheless, he was no proletarian, he had a stake in the country, he was permanently settled, and stood one step higher in society than the English workman of today.” He also stated, “So the workers vegetated throughout a passively comfortable existence, leading a righteous and peaceful life in all piety and probability: and their material position was far better than that of their successors.” He meant that even though the farmer was lazy, he was still well-off.
s morris O_o
In Frederich Engels’ “Condition of the Working Class in England” he wants to make people feel as if modernization made workers worse off.
Engels states that, “They were “respectable” people, good fishers, good husbands and fathers, led moral lives because they had no temptation to be immoral, there being no groggeries or low houses in their vicinity, and because the host, at whose they now and then quenched their thirst, was also a respectable man, usually a large tenant-farmer whose pride in this good order, good beer, and early hours…” He wants us to feel that the Industrial Revolution has caused people to lose sight of their once unbendable morals. The advances in technology caused people to explore things that were unreligious, inhumane, and ultimately forbidden.
C. Sutherland
"The Condition of the Working Class in England" by Federich Engels has a very informative tone. In this essay Engels explains the importance of the Industrial Revolution on the working-class. He states that "before the introduction of machinery, the spinning and weaving of raw materials was carried on the workingman's home." Later after all the machinery was done and new inventions came to England he states that there was a need of workers in factories and that due to the new inventions the population grew. This shows us that the tone of this essay is informative.
Now the diction used in this selection is very symapathic. . One example of diction he uses in this essay is when he says. " Hence also the deep wrath of the whole working-class, from mercilessly left to their fate, a wrath which before too long a time goes by, a time almost within the power of man to predict, must break out into a revolution, ... will prove to be a child's play."
Here is is showing symapthy to those who who are in the working class. The people that are hard workers.
These are the ways he shows diction and tone.
--Cindy Flores
In Frederich Engels "The Condition of the Working Class in England" he wants to make the people feel bad. He want us to feel bad for them because he wanted us to relate to him. He also struggled with the economy and the extension of trade. They also needed more jobs.
Engels said, "We have not, here and now to deal with the history of this revolution, nor woth its vast importance for the present and the future. This is a good example for tone.
Engels also said, " Before the introduction of machinary, the spinning and weaving of raw materials was carried onin the workingman’s home.” This describes the diction in this passage, which is very clear .
♥ Asia D. ♥
After reading Frederich Engels "Condition of the working Class", the reader can easily distinguish that the author is using or trying to use a sympathetic and emphatetic tone. Tone is what the author wants us to feel when we read while diction is the selection of words he uses.
Engels describes the conditions of the working class and the constant sruggles of everyday life for the common folk and tries to get the reader to feel what they had to go through but there is no way to for us to ever completely understand what they felt which is why we tend to be more empathetic when reading this passage.
“As in France Politics, so in England manufacture and the movement of civil society in general drew into the whirl of history the last classes which had remained sunk in apathetic indifference to the universal intersets of mankind.” I think what he’s really saying in this quote is how society really contributes to many of the problems that the lower class afces. The elite have no emotion towards the unfortuante which is why poverty was such an issue.
I think that he uses very simple words so even the common everyday peasnt might be able to undestand the point he is trying to get across. He is very simple and straightforward but blunt at the same time because he really really wanst the reader to feel for these people.
“ Before the introduction of machinery, the spinning and weaving of raw materials was carried on in the workingman’s home.” I think what he’s saying is that maybe the industrial revolution had a huge impact on the way things turned out to be for the working class.
-Uroosa Naveen Haider
Frederich Engles wrote "The Condition of the Working Class in England" to describe the lives of the common people living in England in the ninteenth century. In his essay, his tone is sympathetic. Throughout the essay, he explains the constant struggles of the working class, even though the economy of England was thriving.
His sympathetic tone is showed in his quote, "In short, the English industrial workers of those days lived and thought after the fashion still to be found here and there in Germany, in retirement and seclusion, without mental activity and without violent fluctuations in their position in life." In this statement, he described the simple lives that the workers lived, without education, thought, or politics. Such a life did not seem negative to those who lived it, but they did not realize what they were missing out on.
The diction of the essay is very descriptive. Engles uses his words and language to show the audience the depressing lives of the working class. In his quote, "They were comfortable in their silent vegetation, and but for the industrial revolution they would never have emerged from this existence, which, cosily romantic as it was, was nevertheless not worthy of human beings." By describing their living as "silent vegetation" and saying their lives were "not worthy of human beings", Engles bluntly depicts the unknown pointlessness of their lives.
-- E. Styers
“The condition of the Working Class in England”, by Fredrich Engels describes lives of common people, in the working class, who struggled with the economy, the extension of trade, and the vigorous competition of the workers among themselves. The tone, that made it made me feel, is sympathy for those people. For diction, he used simple words, to make the reader have a more understanding of the essay.
Engels sympathetic tone, was showed in many ways, but stood out in some ways more then others. A quote that stood out to me most, stated, “With these inventions, since improved from year to year, the victory of machine-work over hand-work in the chief branches of English industry was won; and the history of the latter from that time forward simply relates how the hand-workers have been driven by machinery from one position after another.” The reason I’m sympathetic towards this tone, is because inventions were improved each year, and went from hand work, to machine work, that the branches of the English industry had won.
Another quote that stood out to me stated, “The condition of the working-class is the condition of the vast majority of the English people. The question: What is to become of those destitute millions, who consume today what they earned yesterday; who have created the greatness of England by their inventions and their toil; who become with every passing day mre conscious of their might, and demand, with daily increasing urgency, their share of the advantages of society?” This quote stands out to me most because, although England came from nothing in the early world, it has become a more “up to date,” modern world because of the labor of the working class people.
A. Bayse :]
Frederich Engels’ wrote The Condition of the Working Class. The tone and diction of his work is revolutionary. I think this because he shows how the new jobs changed the population and capital during the Industrial Revolution in Europe. For example, one of his quotes was, “In 1854 England exported 556,000,000 yards of woven cotton goods, 76,500,000 pounds of cotton yarn, and cotton hosiery to the value of £1,200,000.In the same year over 8,000,000 mule spindles were at work, 110,000 power and 250,000 hand-looms, throstle spindles not included, ” showing how much England had prospered. Another example was how the population in 1851 had increased 20 to 25 percent since the last 20 years. Lastly, another example is the quote, “In 1835 the spinning of wool employed in the United Kingdom 1,515 mills, with 71,500 workers.” I think the tone and diction is revolutionary because it shows how England was innovative in creating a lot of jobs and a variety of them.
Malcom King Ivery
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