<b>Sybil by Benjamin Disraeli</b>&nbsp;<i><b>Sybil, or The Two Nations</b></i>&nbsp;is an 1845 novel by&nbsp;Benjamin Disraeli. Published in the same year as&nbsp;Friedrich Engels&#39;s&nbsp;<i>The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844</i>,&nbsp;<i>Sybil</i>&nbsp;traces the plight of the&nbsp;working classes&nbsp;of England.<br /><br />Disraeli was interested in dealing with the horrific conditions in which the majority of England&#39;s working classes lived &mdash; or, what is generally called the&nbsp;Condition of England question.<br />The book is a&nbsp;roman &agrave; th&egrave;se, or a novel with a thesis &mdash; which was meant to create a furor over the squalor that was plaguing England&#39;s working class cities.<br /><br />Disraeli&#39;s novel was made into a silent film called&nbsp;<i>Sybil</i>&nbsp;in 1921, starring&nbsp;Evelyn Brent&nbsp;and&nbsp;Cowley Wright.<br /><br />Disraeli&#39;s interest in this subject stemmed from his interest in the&nbsp;Chartist movement, a working-class political reformist movement that sought universal male suffrage and other parliamentary reforms.<br /><br />(Thomas Carlyle&nbsp;sums up the movement in his 1839 book&nbsp;<i>Chartism</i>.) Chartism failed as a parliamentary movement (three petitions to Parliament were rejected); however, five of the &quot;Six Points&quot; of Chartism would become a reality within a century of the group&#39;s formation.