"A Walk in a Workhouse"

Author: Charles Dickens

"I am greatly better in my health, sir; but what I want to get me quite round" with his hand on his throat, "is a little fresh air, sir ...

I really enjoy seeing a Workhouse through Dicken's eyes although it was not the best place to imagine. He described the place with so many details that it looks that I was walking in a workhouse. I realize that workhouses where similar to concentration camps only that in concentration camps they were against their will and in workhouses they went there by their own will. However, can you call that their own will when they had only two options: Dying because they did not have food or working in a workhouse to have food and work, but with non-human conditions. As the quote said without seeing the light and enjoyinng fresh for long periods of time.

The people there were call inmates which has synonyms such as captive, prisioner, convict (workreference). The word explains itself what they were without them noticing; they were prisioners of workhouses. Also, I perceived that in the text when they were interwiewing a inmate he tried to say that he was incredible there eventhough it was not like that. This looks like their boses obligating them to say pretty words and lie when they were asked about the conditions.

Likewise, derogatory words were used to describe women and no men nor children. For example: evil-looking women, ugly old woman, witch like, among others which shows how women were seen in those times.