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A 5 page essay that discusses Edward Bellamy’s late nineteenth century novel Looking Backward and how it pertains to class and ideology at the time its publication, which was 1887. No additional sources cited.
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it moved from being primarily an agricultural society to one based on an industrial economy. During this period there were huge disparities between those individuals in the upper class and
the people who lived as part of the struggling working class and it was the working class that bore the brunt of the economic hardships that were part of the
process of industrialization. In response to this societal situation, Edward Bellamy crafted a utopian novel, which is a science-fiction/fantasy that pictures the problems of the late nineteenth century has
having been solved in, what was to Bellamy, the far distant future of 2000. Examination of this novel, Looking Backward: 2000 to 1887, offers contemporary readers insight into the
social tensions of Bellamys era, which include issues of class, race, ethnicity and ideology. The narrator/protagonist of Looking Backward is Julian West, a man suffering from insomnia who hires
a hypnotist to help him sleep and ends up sleeping for over a hundred years. Early on in his novel, Bellamy comments that American businessmen in the nineteenth century were
utterly certain that there was no other conceivable template for the economy than that the many should work to provide a leisure lifestyle for the few. Bellamy writes that the
owners of the factories were convinced that there was "no other way in which Society could get along, except that many pulled at the rope and the few rode" (Bellamy).
As this suggests, Bellamy uses a detailed extended metaphor to relay to his readers, who are presumed to be the people of the year 2000, what life was like in
the era of his birth. This metaphor pictures the entirety of society as a "prodigious coach" (Bellamy). While some people (the working class) pull the coach up a steep
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