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François 1 & Wilmington Charter : A New Look
24 janvier 2019

19th century England : Pride and Prejudice in a Cotton Mill

North & South 

 

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North & South is a British television drama series , produced by the BBC and originally in four episodes on BBC One from November to December 2004. It was written by Elizabeth Gaskell and Sandy Welch. The serial takes place in the years surrounding the great Exhibition of 1851. North and South follows the story of Margaret Hale, a young woman from southern England who is to move to the North after her father decides to leave the clergy. The family struggles to adjust itself to the industrial town's customs , especially after meeting the Thorntons, a proud family of cotton mill owners who seems to despise their social inferiors. The story explores the issues of class and gender, as Margaret's sympathy for the town mill workers clashes with her growing attraction to John Thornton. 

The intrigue of love between proud Margaret, full of prejudice against the North, and the charismatic Thornton, knight of the young cotton industry , comes together in a great industrial background where friendship and family relations also have they role to play. 

In North and South, Elizabeth uses one of the causes of conflict between employers and workers to show the greed of some and the ignorance of others raising awareness of the difficulty of social progress. She denounces the inequalities between the North and the South of England. Across the grounds of Thornton Elizabeth Gaskell exposed the conceptions of the industrialists . But she speaks above all about the low financial resources and the precarious livelihoods of the working class. In North and South the serious issue of working children in 1851 is also tackled. Even if the Factory Act of 1833 prohibited, in the textile industry, the labour of children under the age of 9, we can see young children working in industries in unsafe conditions. 

Written by Auriane Lopez 

 

 

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