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A 3 page paper which examines the futuristic Boston in Bellamy’s Looking Backward. Bibliography lists 1 additional source.
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far better, far more just, and people generally live in a better place socially and personally. Bellamy, in creating a utopia of sorts in the 20th century, essentially makes a
comment on his own times, illustrating the harsh realities and ridiculously savage, perhaps, condition of society during the Gilded Age. The following paper examines the comments being made by Bellamy.
Looking Backward by Bellamy One element of society that Bellamy notes in his time during the 19th century, and an element that does not exist in the 20th
century, is the element of workers and unions and strikes. In the 20th century clearly these problems do not exist and everyone has more than enough to live comfortably. In
the Gilded Age, however, strikes were relatively common because people had to fight aggressively for their rights to be paid a fair wage in order that they survive.
This is one of the problems that Bellamy sees, but interestingly enough it is a nuisance to his narrator in the novel rather than
a concern in relationship to the workers who struggle. For example, during the Pullman strikes of the time period one letter sums up the problems by stating, "Mr. President and
Brothers of the American Railway Union: We struck at Pullman because we were without hope" (Zinn; Arnove, 2004; 234). In the novel
the narrator indicates that he cannot get married until the new house is built for them but that there are constant delays due to strikes, "a series of strikes,
that is to say, concerted refusals to work on the part of the brick-layers, masons, carpenters, painters, plumbers, and other trades concerned in house building." (Bellamy Chapter 1). He admits
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