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
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Approximate Word count = 719
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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