The Tartarus of Maids
Industrial Revolution made people to change their way of living. Most of the humans today do not act how they want but how they must. We see industrialization as the source of the highest living standards that we enjoy in our everyday modern life. In fact this is true but industrial modernization creates a lot of influence on how humans are living by how much they are connected with the nature, and their interaction with the society. A good example of an industrialized life is "The Tartarus of Maids,” written by Herman Melville, which is a story about a man from the upper middle class who goes to purchase envelopes for his seed company in paper factory, located deep in the mountains. In the beginning, he understands that the world is not as it seems to be like. He thought that modernization by developing industry is creating a good life for humans, but the reality is different. As much as these machines create life, they also destroy it. In this essay, I will present how narrator through The “Tartarus of Maid” story represent modern culture and the impact of industry modernization in human life, such as the isolation of humans from the world, separation from the nature, and industrialization causes more human diversity so it makes division of people into social classes.
To begin with, the narrator sees industrialization as a factor that has isolated human beings from the world. He presents a group of society who do not do anything except eat, drink, and work in the paper factory. Maids who work for this company are away from the real world and connection with other humans. In this story, the scene looks dark and depressive. All the unmarried girls who work twelve hours every day have blank faces, and they are hopeless for a life which every human being deserves. Moreover, the maids are withdrawn from the society, they choose to work in paper mill all their life, and this isolation does not give them the opportunity bear children that...