The Industrial Revolution was a period in which Britain saw advances in technology, agriculture and transportation. These changes heavily influenced the country from an economic and social point of view. The creation of the unskilled factory worker emerged and a movement from rural to urban areas began. As wages from factory work increased, the country's population also increased. Overall Britain was becoming smaller during this time period. The industrial revolution did not only bring positive results. The interactions that humans once maintained despite social status were gradually deteriorating as values began to change. Ongoing industrialization in Britain has had a large presence in current and emerging literature. Over the years authors such as Mary Shelley, Oscar Wilde and DH Lawrence created characters whose morals were altered due to the evils of industrialization despite their social classes. Over the course of the literary eras, characters began to have a change in morals that caused their relationships with other characters to collapse. The presence of industrialization and its problems among different social classes is present in Frankenstein, The Importance of Being Earnest and Lady Chatterley's Lover. When Mary Shelley began creating her first novel, she was well aware of the studies conducted to animate the dead. He knew that the experiments being carried out were only possible because of the advances made in science by industrialization and he knew that they were simply impossible before his time. In Frankenstein, Shelley introduces Victor Frankenstein, a scientist who becomes obsessed with pushing the boundaries of his study even further, no matter the cost. Victor wanted... middle of paper... permission to have a relationship. The only person in his life who paid attention to him was Mrs. Bolton. He began to feel a genuine connection with her, but from his perspective she despised everything Clifford stood for due to her husband's death. Hoping to change Clifford's interest in the miners, he began sharing gossip about the town and hoped that Clifford would begin to feel entitled to help. Unfortunately this backfired because it reinforced the fact that Clifford had had the power all along. “Clifford began to take a new interest in mining. He began to feel like he belonged. A new kind of self-affirmation entered him. It was a new sense of power, something he had hitherto turned away from in terror” (Lawrence 110). With industrialism there can never be two people from two distinct opposite classes capable of relating, there is always one who has more power.
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