Shelley, Carlyle, and Ruskin Float Term Paper

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Carlyle, in his discourse "Past and present," acknowledged that the social order of modern society had indeed changed to provide privilege for the elite and further oppress the already sorry plight of the working class. Describing the elite class as the "unworking aristocracy," Carlyle sadly lamented the seemingly unsolvable problem of oppression among the poor, which he termed as the "Anomaly." For him, social conflict was the "Fate" of the working class that they were inevitably subjected to, a condition that can only result to either continued "Existence or Annihilation" of the working and poor class. Continued tolerance to oppression meant continued existence for the people, while protest against oppression shall end in the 'annihilation,' or further suppression of the freedom of the working people by the privileged elite class.

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Ruskin, in his essay "The nature of gothic," had expressed praise for the Gothic genre, which, contrary to its perception, was actually a movement that was characterized by positive qualities that reflect the Utopian idea of what modern society should be like. Gothic was contrasted against the modern society, wherein the latter was portrayed as stagnant due to people's subsistence to stability and the status quo. Thus, Gothic, according to Ruskin, was a condition similar to en egalitarian state, thereby making this movement an imperative change in the stagnant, inherently unequal nature of modern society......

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