Charles Dickens Animation of the Inanimate
... 107) As the "fairy palaces" show, Charles Dickens was able to breathe life into inanimate objects. From his animation of the inanimate to his vivid descriptions of characters, Dickens had an incredible flair for displaying to his readers every detail of what he saw in his mind when he wrote. ... Dickens wanted us to see the factory as a creature. ... Dickens conveyed this in his writing, by showing the factory as a living entity, and all the people inside as one inanimate object. ... Describing the factories as "looming" and referring to the chimneys as "competing Towers of Babel," Dickens shows that the factories of Coketown seemed endless and frightening to the people living there.