The signal man is a short story, it´s not so easy to understand it though. This masterpiece written by Charles Dickens takes place in the nineteenth century where the dawn of a new world was highly expected. Dickens’ life is absolutely present in the entire story so it´s not difficult to realize that it represents the fears, wishes and points of view of the author.
Reading the story makes me reflect on the quality of life that this progress brings to the society. I really can´t seem to understand what is the purpose of spending a whole life just working. When population is growing amazingly fast, as in the story, it is easy to think that the social side of person can be improved with no trouble. However, we can see that more people doesn´t necessarily mean more company. Sometimes it´s the other way around and quantity doesn´t correspond to quality.
This is to say that mechanization is in some way automating our relationships, feelings and reactions. Loneliness is definitely the possible path of this situation. What I like the most of this reading is the teaching of caring about the real important things in life and give them the right priority.
Reading the story makes me reflect on the quality of life that this progress brings to the society. I really can´t seem to understand what is the purpose of spending a whole life just working. When population is growing amazingly fast, as in the story, it is easy to think that the social side of person can be improved with no trouble. However, we can see that more people doesn´t necessarily mean more company. Sometimes it´s the other way around and quantity doesn´t correspond to quality.
This is to say that mechanization is in some way automating our relationships, feelings and reactions. Loneliness is definitely the possible path of this situation. What I like the most of this reading is the teaching of caring about the real important things in life and give them the right priority.
1 comment:
It's great you learned something from this short story...you're right, it's difficult to understand the story, you've to read it more than once to get a bigger picture of it.
Mainly what Dickens is doing is to criticize industrialization by showing some of the consequences he saw/thought like feeling overwhelm for this modern society...what do you think?
Take care,
Claudia
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