Hard Times
Hard Times, by Charles Dickens, is a portrayal of times during the Industrial Revolution. Dickens is a famous writer who wrote many celebrated works such as Great Expectations and David Copperfield. Charles Dickens describes in great detail how the Industrial Revolution has changed the lives of the people of the period of time. "In Hard Times, Dickens gives his vision of how Utilitarianism affected factory life, by describing labor relations, and how it affected education, by portraying a model school. In a factory, Utilitarianism views the workers as units of labor, "Hands" from whom the maximum work must be extracted at the minimum cost. In a Utilitarian school, pupils are viewed as "Vessels" to be filled with the maximum number of facts at the minimum outlay of expense. The same man might own both the mill and the school, as Dickens"(page 9, introduction). All the students attend a school know as model school. From early childhood the students are taught the disregard feelings and thinking for facts and knowledge. Dickens portrayal of the charac
" 'Girl number twenty,' said Mr. Gradgrind, squarely pointing with his square forefinger, 'I don't know that girl. Who is that girl?' 'Sissy Jape, Sir,' explained number twenty, blushing, standing up, and curtseying. 'Sissy is not a name,' said Mr. Gradgrind. 'Don't call yourself Sissy. Call yourself Cecilia.' 'It's father as calls me Sissy, Sir,' returned the young girl in a trembling voice, and with another curtsey." (Page 15) is becoming more compassionate to women as well as more understating of their position in life. For example: Throughout the book Hard Times, Charles Dickens grants the women influential power over men. Women's Emotions can, at times, be very influential over men. Dickens illustrates through a cold-hearted main character, Thomas Gradgrind, is in the beginning of the book. But as the book proceeds, it is evident that Thomas Grad rings, Throughout the novel Hard Times, Charles Dickens focused this novel around the family and as well as the social areas. He also portrays the struggles of a group of people trying to survive through th
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Approximate Word count = 719
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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