Write A Paper 5 Pages Analyzing Mary Barton

Name:Instructor:Course:Date:Book: Mary Barton by Elizabeth GaskellIntroduction“Mary Barton” effectively puts the British society in the mid-19th century into perspective using its heart-moving plot and main themes raised in the novel. The novel tells a story of a young girl, Mary Barton, who remains under the care of his father after the untimely death of her mother. John Barton Mary’s father works in a local Mill-factory as a weaver, despite him having a job, he lives in poverty and struggles to meet the basic needs for his family. The novel juxtaposes the lives that mill-workers live with that of their master the mill owners. Whereas, the mill owners live an opulent life, characterized with luxury and wealth, the working class, lives an improvised life characterized with injustices, inequalities and major suffering as the lower class of the society. The novel uses tow families the Bartons and Wilsons, to contextualize the British Society in mid-19th century. The paper examines, Mary Barton in the context of Poverty, class division, and prostitution as the main characteristics of the mid 19th century defining of the British society.PovertyIn the novel, we are introduced to Mary, Barton, a small