Category: Hard Times

The characters created by Charles Dickens in Hard Times are a collection of victims and victimizers, some pitiable, others damnable. Dickens juxtaposes the errors of rationalism against the established values that individuals hold within a circus group. Through the characterisation of Thomas Gradgrind and his children Tom and Louisa, Dickens examines the impoverishment of life…

Hard Times is a novel written by Charles Dickens in 1854, taking place in a small town called Coketown. In this novel, we learn about many characters, but two stick out to the readers the uttermost, Thomas Gradgrind and Louisa. Gradgrind is brought into the novel as a schoolteacher. Mr. Gradgrind is a successful businessman.…

‘Hard Times’ by Charles Dickens is a novel written in 1854 during the Industrialization upset. The story delineates Thomas Gradgrind’s thoughts on learning and how he actualizes it onto his kids, prompting unfavorable impacts. Gradgrind accepted that the main method for learning was to take in hard realities and not let emotions or inventiveness, the…

Charles Dickens presentation of characters throughout the novel Hard Times is significant to the perception of the story and the individual characters. Often, the voice of the author can easily sway ones opinions on the novel they have written, as can be seen in Hard Times. Dickens presentation of Louisa Gradgrind in Hard Times allows…

Charles Dickenss Hard Times allows one to analyze and take a greater look into the nineteenth century during the Industrial Revolution. The times of unrest within social classes. Lack of education; Girl number twenty unable to define a horse! said Mr. Gradgrind&. Dickens writes this in concern of no imagination and the use of the…

The industrial revolution was a pivotal point in time during the Victorian age, perhaps even one of the most compelling chapters in English history. The writers of the day drew increasingly urgent attention to the condition of England and the working-class Charles Dickens introduced Hard Times and the idea of the industrial revolution as the…

Charles Dickens’s novel Hard Times demonstrates numerous social issues which were present in the 1840s and which would be of universal and timeless concern to the audience if they were of today’s modern society. Different elements of the social issues which are presented in the novel Hard times contribute to the overall structure of novel…

Dickens Hard Times begins in a classroom of facts and concludes in the circus of fancy. In a well-organized and coherent essay, discuss the significance of this shift of the setting to the theme of the novel.  The theme of Fact and Fancy features prominently within Hard Times, reflecting a debate of major concern…