A workhouse was a place where people who were unable to support themselves could go to live and work. The Oxford Dictionary's earliest reference to a workhouse dates to 1652 in Exeter. There is, however, some written evidence that workhouses existed before this date. Records mention a workhouse in 1631 in Abingdon^[1]. The vagrants' and casual workers' ward of a workhouse was colloquially known as a spike, from the tool used to unpick

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Workhouse conditions were deliberately harsh to deter the able-bodied idle poor from relying on them. Men and women were segregated and children were separated from their parents. Aged pauper couples who by definition were neither idle nor criminal were not allowed to share a bedroom. By entering a workhouse paupers were held to have forfeited responsibility for their children. Education was provided but pauper children were often forcibly apprenticed without the permission or knowledge of their parents. Inmates surrendered their own clothes and wore a distinctive uniform.

There were many well-meaning measures such as education for children and the provision of doctors and chaplains. However most workhouses were run on a shoestring and these philanthropic gestures often fell far short.

In many ways the treatment in a workhouse was little different from that in a prison leaving many inmates feeling that they were being punished for the crime of poverty.

The terrible conditions in some workhouses may have led to depression. There were references to workhouse women who would not speak and children who refused to play.

Some workhouse masters embezzled the money intended for blankets, food and other important items for their own personal use.

Visitors reported rooms full of sick or elderly inmates with threadbare blankets and the windows wide open to the freezing weather.

version français:

Les Workhouses sont des lieux réservé aux plus démunie et dans le besoin afin de leur donner un toit ou loger en échange d'un travail. Mais Les conditions dans lesquels ils sont traité sont indéniablement mal, car les pauvres sont certe logé, mais ils sont mal nourrit et travaillent dans d'extrême conditions. Au file du temps les conditions se dégradent de plus en plus, pire qu'en prison, ce qui engendrait une montée phénoménal de crimes afin de pouvoir se rendre en prison.

quotation:

Narrator:
-"On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops
to zero."
-"Things you own end up owning you."
-"That old saying, how you always hurt the one you love, well, look,
it works both ways."

Tyler Durden:
-"You have to consider the possibility that God does not like you.
He never wanted you. In all probability, he hates you. This is not
the worst thing that can happen. We don't need Him. Fuck damnation,
man, fuck redemption! If we are God's unwanted children, so be it!"
 

tyler durden, that's the name of the man who rebels against society.
Tyler is a man with ideas of anarchy and revolution, who will create
an army of volontary men ready to risk their lives, and under complete
submission. All this happens thank's to a very important event... the
meeting of Tyler and Jack

Fight club is a film who denounces our society of consummation. It
criticizes the influance of objects on men. It describes what society
tells us not to say. It does what society tells us not to do....
"Revolution" is the message of the film, giving us the order to live!
Never be a slave of the office, of the super market, etc... The film
is about the true nature of human beings.

The story starts with Jack, who is the narrator, the principal actor
and so the center of the story. Jack lives a life with no hobbys,
alone and sleepless... so he decides to change his life. He starts
to visit groups of helping the others, support groups of cancer
patients for exemple. these support groups eventually become his daily
drug, the only moment in his senseless life when he feels alife...
until the day another fake sick person comes to join the groups...
Marla Singer. But it's another encounter that definitely changes
Jack's life. On a business trip, he meets the charismatic Tyler
Durden. This anarchic leader will lodge Jack after his flat has burnt
completely... They will found together the "Fight Club"

I like this film because the story is very well developped. the
script is brilliantly written and every scene and every shot is
significant. The story is consistent from the beginning to the
end. as for me, I personally agree with the main ideas the film stands
for... The film is all about the negative and destructive sides of
modern society.

Harold Crick is a trivial men... He lives alone, brushes his teeth alone, and goes to work alone...

He lives in a flat, and he is a fussy men, he never stops to count...
And he can count very very quickly...

Every day, he wakes up when the alarm clock of his watch rings, then he is standing as if he was asleep.
We can see in the first scene that the blinds were shut because the room was faintly lit.

Secondly he brushes his teeth with his toothbrush,
and he counts every single tooth in his mouth.

Then he gets dressed methodically... he acts like a robot...

Harold Crick is unexciting... But all this will change
the day when he hears a women commenting the life of Harold...