1.

Describe how environmental crisis is represented in the artworks

of Charles Dickens, J.M.W. Turner and William Blake.
2. Comment on how Charles Dickens, J.M.W Turner and William
Blake represented environmental crisis through the discussion
board.
His writings were greatly influenced by the ongoing industrial revolution. He described abhorrent
environmental conditions, inadequate sanitary practices, child abuse, and other social maladies
of the times. One very common theme is poverty. We see this theme in Oliver Twist, Hard
Times, and even A Christmas Carol. By bringing Charles Dickens into our class today we can
compare a portrait of the environment in another century to the environmental issues of today.
Dickens' writings provide vivid images of a time facing major health, sanitary, and working
conditions of the poor, which offer an important historical and social perspective for us.

 Dickens's primary goal in Hard Times is to illustrate the dangers of allowing humans to
become like machines, suggesting that without compassion and imagination, life would be
unbearable.
  novel Oliver Twist the major theme is the classic theme of Good versus Evil. Dickens
said that he created Oliver to represent the principle of good surviving through manifold
adversity and "triumphing at last."
Oliver Twist unromantically portrays the sordid lives of criminals, and exposes the cruel
treatment of the many orphans in London in the mid-19th century. [

Joseph Mallord William Turner is often described as the 19th century's greatest
landscape painter. He was fascinated by the powers of nature and transferred this
passion onto canvas.In his later works he focused on the new abilities of the
machines of the industrial revolution. He became increasingly fascinated with
natural and atmospheric elements. Turner's painting style shifted during the 1880s.
His painting became more luminous and atmospheric. He began to focus more on
color than the details of the actual topography. St. Mawes at the Pilchard
Season (1812) is an example.Frosty Morning (1813) is based solely on the effects
of light. As time progressed he paid less attention to specific details and more to
atmospheric quality created by the natural elements, such as the sun.
William Blake was an English poet, printmaker, and painter known for his mystical works. Deeply
religious, Blake’s works were based on visions of angels, spirits, and demons he had since
childhood. Though much of his oeuvre defies conventional categorizations, many of his paintings
are based on the works of  Raphael , Michelangelo , and Albrecht Dürer . Blake is perhaps best
remembered for his poem  The Tyger. “In the universe, there are things that are known, and things
that are unknown, and in between, there are doors,” he once said.