Around the years of the industrial age author Charles Dickens managed to create an exquisite novel known as Hard Times which has left a lasting impression in literary history Dickens uses this novel in order to portray the difficult lifestyle during this time and to show the unjust working situations for the industry workers With the innovation of advanced quality of machines the industry demanded vigorous working situations for its workers In order to portray this image Dickens created the cha
The Victorian Era was a period of great change in many areas of life for example The Industrial Revolution There were many problems in society Famous authors in this patriarchal society were well known for being social commentators that serialised their works through newspapers Charles Dickens wrote Hard Times which is full of criticisms on pollution monotony and lack of creativity Similarly Mary Barton is a novel that was written by Elizabeth Gaskell criticising the poor conditions in which th
How does Dickens present his attitude to education in the opening chapters of Hard Times Charles Dickens presents his attitude to education in the opening chapters of Hard Times in a very clear and deliberate way It is blatantly clear that the imagery and techniques used by Dickens conveys to the audience a very negative image of education Dickens uses techniques such as repetition exaggeration metaphor and agricultural imagery to portray his attitude towards education The main technique that D
In Hard Times Charles Dickens gives us a close up look into what appears to be the ivory tower of the bourgeoisie of his day yet these middle class characters are viewed from a singular perspective the perspective of those at the bottom of the social and economic system Though Dickens characters tend to be well developed and presented with a thoroughly human quality the stereotypical figure of arrogant and demanding Bounderby fails to accurately capture the motivations and attitudes of the typi
Of all the sorrowful characters in Hard Times Louisa Gradgrind is perhaps the most tragic Although brought up in the upper social hierarchy of Coke town a life refused of imagination and fancy has made Louisa Gradgrinds life a sorrowful one Forced into a marriage with no love later divorced and retarded of any true feelings or emotions her story is just the starting point of sad and tragic lives throughout hard times Throughout hard times we see an underlying recurrence of unhappiness throughou