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Title: Hard Times by Charles Dickens
Description: contains notes on the novel itself, short introduction, the story, the level of these notes is aimed at second year students, college education.
Description: contains notes on the novel itself, short introduction, the story, the level of these notes is aimed at second year students, college education.
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Hard Times by Charles Dickens
Hard Times is a work of Victorian Literature, written by Charles Dickens in 1854
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The book openly
speaks about the industrialization turning people into robots who don’t have the ability to feel
compassion towards other human beings, it tells us about borderline over-exaggerated rationality
and similar problems
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Which is peculiar, since
it’s Dickens’ first novel not set in London
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Dickens made fun of
utilitarians and called them “averages”
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The perfect example of that
in the novel is Thomans Gradgrind, who is a politician, an educator and an incurable rationalist
and even has a school for children who are not allowed to be creative or imaginative
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Louisa and Tom – Louisa
is a total mess, confusion rules her thought process and Tom, is a complete hedonist – the
“positive bits” of growing up without being able to express your creativity and imagination are
clearly visible here
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He is a tad “obnoxious” which
is restated again after Louisa finds out she has to marry the guy
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In Bounderby’s factory, there is a certain guy called Stephen, who is the incorporation of
decency
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He’s married to a drunk which he later tries to divorce, but is
unable since the Victorian system doesn’t allow poor people to get a divorce, accused of robbing
a bank (which he of course didn’t) and thus fired from his job and rejected by his co-workers
after doing the noble deed of refusing to help either to make an even greater gap between the
mill-owners and workers
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He falls for Louisa and at a point
even declares his love for her
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He also finds out
his son is a criminal, a bank robber to be more precise, and tries to help him escape Coketown
before he gets busted
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Tom still manages to get away but that was the last straw as far as Gradgrinds school is
concerned
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Like before mentioned this novel is meant as a way to target the faults of the utilitarian school of
thought and it did, through Bitzer, through Tom and Louisa and last but not least through
Gradgrind who became aware of his mistakes after all the trouble he went through with his
completely ignorant and emotionless children
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To put it into more simple words, the novel is supposed to analyse the faults of the English
society at that time and exaggerate them up to the point where everyone can understand what is
wrong in hopes of correcting the whole thing
Title: Hard Times by Charles Dickens
Description: contains notes on the novel itself, short introduction, the story, the level of these notes is aimed at second year students, college education.
Description: contains notes on the novel itself, short introduction, the story, the level of these notes is aimed at second year students, college education.