Imagery can be a powerful force. Words may give us a description, but an image can deliver a direct collaboration of whatever the text discusses. Imagery draws the eye and garners interest. While reading The Working Classes and The Poor, I noticed the image of Dinner at a cheap lodging house, 1859. This image is dreary and sad, with overcast skies and an overall feeling of dread. It is the desolate and dark atmosphere that helps to illuminate on how impoverished these people are. There are no happy faces shown, they all appear to be resigned and run down. The people in this image are stuck in a system that demands hard work and long days but only pays the bare minimum. They were fed only enough to keep from starvation and only occasionally bathed. The pay offered was also never enough to allow the paupers to break free from this situation. To me this image portrays the vicious cycle of keeping the poor, poor.
Humanities 101 