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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life‚ when a situation seems impossible to overcome‚ becomes second nature. The methods one uses to overcome the challenges faced in life affects how one acquires success. For example‚ my ancestors did not overcome their struggle for equality without self-determination to better their lives. Thus‚ their lives have been an inspiration for me. The motivation to excel‚ though sometimes forgotten in my generation‚ is a quality that needs nourishment. My parents taught me that it takes hard work and
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1) Discuss the 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
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Although introduced almost seventy-three years apart‚ Charles Dickens’ novel Hard Times‚ and Fritz Lang’s Metropolis share many common parallels and themes. Through the use of biblical allusions‚ both Lang and Dickens are able to compare characters in their stories to holy figures such as Freder and Stephen Blackpool being alluded to as Christ-like. Both stories also show the harsh effects of industrialization‚ and present similar situations of with the school children and factory workers living
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Discuss the presentation of confict in the 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
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people who project confidence rather well surprisingly lack of self-confidence. I don’t see myself as a self asserted person‚ I dunno If I am a shy person or If I lack confidence but either way I get that feeling when the spot light is on me‚ in other words‚ Like when I read out loud‚ sing‚ or explain something I just feel like I want the ground to swallow me up and I don’t want anyone to look at me. And sometimes It get from worse to worst‚ this lack of confidence I’ve got turned
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evidence of guilt based on eye-witness testimony‚ Bryant and Milan were found “not guilty” by an all-white‚ all-male jury. “The murder of Emmett Till had a powerful impact on a new generation of blacks. It was this generation‚ those who were adolescents when Till was killed‚ that would soon demand justice and freedom in a way unknown in America before” (Williams 57).
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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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2014 The Plight of English Women Hard Times by Charles Dickens‚ and Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe illustrate the role of women in British society from the 16th to 19th century. Specifically‚ the female characters from Moll Flanders and Hard Times contrast one another through the hardships they encounter as a direct consequence of their gender and social standing. The books indicate a slow progression and expansion of women’s roles in Britain over time. However‚ the progression of women in British
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passers-by who bumped against him. He was free after a lifetime of purgatory‚ and he was on his way home to tell Mary that it was finished. The past was going to bury its dead and the future was bright and golden. He was thinking how her face would glow when he told her the news. As he reached the corner of Fifty-ninth Street‚ the traffic light ambered its way to red and he stopped with the impatient crowd. A few feet away‚ a Salvation Army Santa Claus stood over a large kettle. The man reached in
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