However, not all of these enlightenment thinkers would agree that a better world was being attained by this period. Underneath of the silver lining that the enlightenment period presented, sat the rest of the society, which was not making progress. The rest of society was actually regressing. The rights of women were non-existent, the middle class (Bourgeoisie) was paying taxes to support a fabulously expensive aristocracy, and the poor were multiplying at alarming rates, leaving more and more empty stomachs on the streets. As the rich were getting richer, the poor suffered while still trying to

In Ellis's piece, she writes of something, which was good about the enlightenment period and used the writing as a call for a brighter and more powerful future for women. She wrote of all that was right in the women of the enlightenment period. Arnold on the other hand wrote as a precaution to his culture and their way of life being lived in the wrong way. He knew that in spite of all the great events that were happening at this time it could all be threatened by anarchy and that was where the oppression of the less gifted in life was going to lead. Both writers had very good purpose in writing their respective piece's and each one made their own special connection with their readers. These were two of the more important, yet under-appreciated pieces of the enlightenment period. Ellis and Arnold should both be commended for their efforts and each writes in a powerful way that interest's and touches the reader's emotions.

In another writing that proves to be vital to enlightenment period, Matthew Arnold composed a piece called Culture and Anarchy, which focuses mainly on the poor and the working middle class and the hardships that they must endure in order to survive and please the aristocracy. During the enlightenment period it was expected that the poor would work for the rich and also be taxed in order to support the wealthy. Arnold suggested that maybe as an incentive to the poor doing the brunt of the labor that they might be taxed less, making the necessities of life such as food more accessible and also more attainable. The wealthy accepted the growth of the poor and drained them of their money and labor. The more that the population was to increase meant that production was also going to increase. This mea

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