Evaluate Carlyle and Arnold as critics of culture. /Compare and contrast Carlyle’s and Arnold’s prose style.

Evaluate Carlyle and Arnold as critics of culture. /Compare and contrast Carlyle’s and Arnold’s prose style.

The Victorian age produced a number of censors and critics of the leading features of the period, such as the industrial and commercial prosperity, the growth of democracy, Benthamite legislation, Evangelical piety and philanthropy, the new Anglo-Catholism of the Oxford Movement, and the Popularizing of scientific theories of evolution. Among these censors the most upright was Carlyle, who despised everything of this new culture. Mathew Arnold was another opponent of the principal tendencies of his age, but he claimed to be no more than a critic because he believed that criticism rather than prophecy was the need of the time. In fact, “Arnold surveyed a scene of earnest bustling energy, but of energy which was misdirected and stupid….. He tried to lower rather than to raise the social temperature.”

            Carlyle was the dominant figure of the Victorian period. The greatest prose writer is of his age, and one of the greatest moral forces of the modern world. Carlyle was a tireless critic of all that go by the name of Victorianism. Carlyle brought out his “French Revolution”, “Lectures on Heroes and Hero-worship”, “Past and Present”, “The Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell”, “Latter-Day Pamphlets” and “The Life of John Sterling” and “The History of Frederick the Great” his last important work. In “Sartor Resartus” and “Heroes and Hero-worship” Carlyle denounced the materialistic civilization of the age. He finds the whole of the modern society diseased. Industry is, no doubt, a force for good, but industrialists are blind to anything else save their own interests. It crushes humanity and reduces the masses to extreme poverty and misery. “Past and Present” is the most penetrating and influential of all the books which were inspired by the critical, social and industrial condition of the time. “Latter-Day Pamphlets” is a piece of ferocious social criticism...............................................................................

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