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5 pages in length. Edward Bellamy finds many things problematic about the rise of late nineteenth-century industrialism in Looking Backward: 2000-1887. The extent to which this rise of social progress served to economically stunt the masses while creating fortunes for a handful of savvy – if not unscrupulous – businessmen is both grand and far-reaching; that Bellamy's account points out this and many other social, political and economic inequities speaks to a time of American evolution that was not holistically beneficial as many believe. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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to economically stunt the masses while creating fortunes for a handful of savvy - if not unscrupulous - businessmen is both grand and far-reaching; that Bellamys account points out this
and many other social, political and economic inequities speaks to a time of American evolution that was not holistically beneficial as many believe. "No more did I look upon
the woeful dwellers in this Inferno with a callous curiosity as creatures scarcely human. I saw in them my brothers and sisters, my parents, my children, flesh of my
flesh, blood of my blood. The festering mass of human wretchedness about me offended not now my senses merely, but pierced my heart like a knife, so that I
could not repress sighs and groans...Their bodies were so many living sepulchres" (Bellamy 181). Considered to be the rumblings of a significant
turning point in the history of mankind, the Industrial Revolution reflected a social fabric that was beginning to unravel. Native Americans, African Americans, women and the working class were
growing increasingly intolerant of the few social and political elitists dictating to the vast majority what their lives were to represent. Minorities, Bellamy notes, did not hold much power
within society, inasmuch as there was an unyielding sense of control that loomed over the aspects of freedom, equality and individuality. The working class had grown resentful of societys elitist
population, a handful of people who effectively directed the masses. According to Bellamy, it was by way of sheer determination that the working class was able to forge beyond
such economic strain in order to maintain some semblance of reasonable existence. "What hope was there for the wretched, for the world, if thoughtful men and tender women were
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