http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/elizabeth-gaskell Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:58:35 -0400 Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:58:35 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/224/the-concept-of-unity-in-elizabeth-gaskells-north-and-south By Tristan Gans - North and South is a novel defined by the resolution of binary conflicts: heroine Margaret Hale is presented with a number of divisions of sympathy, between industrialists and the working class, between conflicting views of Mr. Thornton, and even between her conflicting views of her own intelligence.[1] In almost all cases, Margaret does not so much choose sides as acknowledge mutually dependent and beneficial relationships. The ending of the novel, in which a proposal to loan money to a newly benevolent Mr. Thornton manifests the confluence of her compassion and her business sense, binds these... Tue, 06 Apr 2010 09:29 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/224/the-concept-of-unity-in-elizabeth-gaskells-north-and-south