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| Coketown provides a very real setting for Dickens's novel. It is an English town during an industrial and technological explosion. It is a symbol for an entire movement in the world towards advancements in production resulting in the opportunity for great wealth. Dickens describes this town (and this entire time) as an unatural red and black, describing the smoke and soot covered buildings. Once a beautiful red brick town, it is now covered in the filth pouring out of the factories. More than just soot and smoke, the black that covers the town is a symbol for the allusions and lies that have taken over the social structure. Similar to the lies that Bounderby utilizes, the smoke has covered and blurred what was once a beautiful existence. |
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