Time As A Poor Law Guardian By Emmeline Pankhurst Analysis

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I believe that Zola was sympathetic to the miners of this time and their families because he used his main character Etienne to educate readers on the living conditions of these miners. He described with great clarity the way in which they lived so closely to one another with neighbors being able to hear one another through thin walls, and how they never made enough money to even afford a loaf of bread after paying for debts and rent. Zola described their day to day life by providing detail on how a miner’s day usually went from the time they awoke at three in the morning to go to work until the time they prepared for bed, only to follow the same monotonous routine the next day. He then also contrasted the miners’ way of living to that of the owners and shareholders of the Montsou Company. He took us into the home of the Gregoires whose annual income came directly from a hold in the Montsou mines. Unlike the miners’, the Gregories awoke at nine in the morning and sometimes even later because they devoted a lot of time to sleeping in. They had an annual income of forty thousand francs, always had ample amounts of food on their table, and …show more content…

Even though the women worked hard as Poor Law Guardians, they did it only because they had no other option available to them. She believed that in order for there to be no more suffering for the women of this time, they all needed to band together to fight back against the injustice they continuously faced. For Emmeline, she wanted to change the laws that made men so entitled even in a situation in which the men and women should have been viewed as equal. Despite her efforts to get these laws changed, nothing was accomplished in the hands of a man, and she felt it best for women to have these laws changed

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