Big Impact Quote

I'm going to go ahead and take the first page of the book as my idea of Dickens' literary masterpiece, because he takes an immediate stand, and establishes his literary criticism of society within the first page.  This is an extremely gutsy thing to do, and Dickens pulls it off masterfully.  I don't really feel like retyping a whole page, but the things that really stuck out to me were the words used to describe children, a common symbol of energy, youth, and innocence, and Dickens dehumanizes them to a point that they are only a means of storing information, using words like "vessels" or "vaults", like they are only serving to protect and pass on the information within their skull.  I just feel like very few authors would make their argument in the first page like Dickens did, and I feel that his boldness as a writer is characteristic of his style of writing.  He also makes the opposition seem complete ridiculous, with the overemphasis of the "Facts".  The reader goes into the rest of the text with a preconceived notion that fact-based (and later production-based) society is ridiculous, ineffective, and produces incapable citizens to a community.