Dichotomy between the North and South

Quote

Character

Chapter

“[The] people and scenes [are] so different that I shall never be reminded of Helstone”

Mr Hale

4

“It [Milton] would be different from Helstone, and could never remind them of that beloved place”

Margaret

4

“The rough uncourteous manners of these people”

Margaret

9

“‘And I too am nineteen.’ She thought, more sorrowfully than Bessy did, of the contrast between them.”

Margaret

13

“South country people are often frightened by what our Dark-shire men and women only call living and struggling”

Mrs Thornton

15

“Her residence in Milton has quite corrupted her. She’s a democrat, a red republican, a member of the Peace society, a socialist”

40

“Meanwhile at Milton the chimneys smoke, the ceaseless roar and might beat, and dizzying whirl of machinery, struggled and strove perpetually”

Narrator

50