In the book Hard Times‚ Dickens portrays his philosophical values‚ namely the opposition between Fact and Fancy and his support for the latter and the need for religious values in humanity‚ itself attached to the importance of femininity. He also writes in parallel to the literary context of the times‚ for example criticising capitalism and portraying the negative effects of industrialisation. The novel is one of many critiques written at the time and suggests numerous social developments and ideas
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Mrs Dalloway In Virginia Woolf ’s Mrs Dalloway‚ the representation of time and attitudes towards history‚ are one of the central experiences within her novel. Originally called The Hours‚ Woolf explores the existence of different time frameworks. The four main frameworks explored in the novel are clocktime‚ subjective time‚ historical and evolutionary time. Woolf deals with the transience of time in human existence. Life is portrayed in a state of constant creation‚ changing endlessly from moment
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theme of parental responsibility in Dickens’s Hard Times. Refer to specific passages and scenes from the novel. Throughout the book Hard times by Charles Dickens there is a theme of parental responsibly or more appropriately‚ parental irresponsibility. This is majorly highlighted through the relationship between Mr Grandgrind and his two children‚ Tom and Louisa. We also can see an irresponsible parent relationship between sissy Jupe and her father. Mr Grandgrind only thought that teaching facts to
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Ritsie Armington Mrs. Thompson AP English Lit 11/6/12 In the novel‚ “Hard Times‚” Charles Dickens uses Mr. Gradgrind‚ Louisa Gradgrind and Sissy Jupe to express his view on Utilitarianism. Utilitarians believe “our moral faculty‚ according to all those of its interpreters who are entitled to the name of thinkers‚ supplies us only with the general principles of moral judgments; it is a branch of our reason‚ not of our sensitive faculty; and must be looked to for the abstract doctrines of morality
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The novel Hard Times by Charles Dickens offers a glimpse into the life and times during the industrial revolution in England during the nineteenth century. Dickens offers a wide range of characters from the upper class factory owner to the lowest class factory workers. He creates characters in this range of social classes and crafts this story that intertwines each person and their transformations throughout the novel. Almost every character in this story is complex and has characteristics that
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The novel Hard Times by Charles Dickens is a fictitious glimpse into the lives of various classes of English people that live in a town named Coketown during the Industrial Revolution. The general culture of Coketown is one of utilitarianism. The school there is run by a man ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature . This man‚ known as Thomas Gradgrind‚ is responsible for the extermination of anything fanciful and integration of everything pertinent and factual into the young‚ pliable
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texts that you have studied In “Hard Times” by Charles Dickens‚ conflict is presented as the outcome of industrialisation‚ material prosperity and a strict utilitarian way of life. In the 1850’s when the novel was written in instalments in ‘Household Words’‚ Victorian England was in the age of reform‚ which was creating new tensions between social classes‚ and creating a new type of ‘master’ represented by characters such as Mr. Gradgrind and more particularly Mr. Bounderby. Conflict is shown
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Marriage and Divorce in Dickens’ Hard Times: A Statement on the Religious Morals of 19th Century British Society The Victorian era in England gave birth to the first real industrial society the world had ever seen. With the rise of industry came large cities‚ an expanded working class population and the rapid rise of imperialism. Although England was progressing towards a more powerful place in the world‚ its citizens seemed to be drifting in the opposite direction. Oppressive laws and working conditions
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Case Study One The following case study covers LO1 Surviving Greenscape’s Hard Times In ten years‚ Greenscape had grown from a one-person venture into the largest nursery and landscaping business in its area. Its founder‚ Lita Ong‚ combined a lifelong interest in plants with a botany degree to provide a unique customer service. Ong had managed the company’s growth so that even with twenty full-time employees working in six to eight crews‚ the organization culture was still as open‚
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Discuss the significance of Fact and Fancy in Hard Times with particular reference to Dickens’ presentation of the worlds of Sleary’s circus and Coketown. You should focus closely on techniques used and effects created and how both of these things shape our response‚ as readers‚ to the text. Dickens uses a range of techniques to present the idea of the importance of and contrast between Fact and Fancy‚ such as the settings of the contrasting ‘worlds’ in the novel‚ imagery‚ and the very language
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