After reading about Carlyle, I realized that he sounds like my older sister. He was a critic and he managed to influence many other writers in the Victorian era. My sister is the very good at arguing and she can make you feel bad about yourself by saying one sentence. Carlyle seems like the kind of person who can easily get people to follow him and lead them against the government. He was very capable of getting others to believe what he thinks. Carlyle was definitely a revolutionary of the time and the era would not have been the same with out him.
The Industrial Revolution definitely changed the world at the time and it is still helping us today. The revolution started with cotton and the cities started to expand. Leaps and bounds were made during the revolution and made it possible for people to move faster than horses. Although the Industrial Revolution made living better and easier, the pollution and carbon that might have been the trigger to global warming. Since we are still using the things that were involved in the revolution, we have been continuously releasing all the bad gases that have depleted the ozone.
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I like your comparison to your personal life. The power of words can be more powerful than physical force. Do you think Carlyle was too critical? Were his ideals too romantic or utopian?
Jennifer,
OK comments about Carlyle and the Industrial Revolution. Sorry to hear about your sister, though; while Carlyle is one of my favorite writers from the period, I think it would have been hard to be his sibling!
In this post you tend to make sweeping generalizations about the readings, but don't develop or support them as much as I would like you to. Try quoting a passage from Carlyle and analyzing it, rather than going straight to the summation of his influence or significance to the time period.
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