Coketown Coketown is a novel written by Charles Dickens in 1854. Coketown is a description of a typical town in the Victorian age after the industrial revolution which occurred during the 18th century. Charles Dickens describes the other side of the coin during the Victorian age by using figure of speech in his description of the town: “Coketown […] was a town of red brick‚ or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but‚ at matters stood it was a town of unnatural
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HARD TIMES ASSIGNMENT DISCUSS: Dickens’ Coketown is not a city‚ rather a stage for the workings out of Gradgrind’s philosophy. Considering the above sentence examine the construction of the city in Hard Times. Coketown is quite literally the ‘town of coke’‚ the raw material used to convert iron to steel and indirectly the foundation of the ‘steel/industrial revolution’. It is critical to analyze the name of the city for Dickens’ Hard Times is a satirical caricature on the condition of England
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In " Hard Times: Coketown" Charles Dickens is assessing industrialization and the effect it had on the people in the towns in which they resided. Coketown seems to be portrayed as a city of work and not anything else. It is put across that the town consists of only fact and nothing else to alleviate the dullness. Charles Dickens is sharing his analysis on the social issues implicated in this town through a narrative that reflects upon the environment. He uses a lot of descriptions and similes to
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Coketown The relatively short time period of the Victorian age‚ which stretched from 1837 to 1901‚ produced one of the most famous British writers‚ Charles Dickens (1812-1870)‚ who was very skilled at portraying the very dark aspects of the Victorian Era through his works. The Victorian Era is known for its dramatic increase in population and industrial growth that brought along fast growing cities and a bigger use of machines‚ that were coal fueled‚ having an enormous impact on the appearance
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facts and facts only because he believes that is all that they will need in their life. He thinks that memorizing is effective way of learning. Chapter 2 1. Placed in Coketowm‚ a bland factory based town where Thomas Gradgrind created the school. Coketown is known to be excessively dirty and industrialized. 2. It is discovered the dark-eyed rigid man is Thomas Gradgrind who built the school. Also in this chapter Mr. Mcchoakumchild is introduced who is one of the teachers at the school. Lastly‚ a
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School in Coketown‚ England was one of the most gloomy and depressing contributions to the character of Coketown itself. M’Choakumchild School was originally called St. Mary’s School‚ but after nuns were found guilty of choking and abusing students‚ the town decided to change the name. The residents of Coketown had very mixed reactions to this name change. Some were delighted to see some form of punishment on the nuns‚ and some were horrified at the impression it left on the town. Coketown‚ England
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“Coketown” The passage “Coketown” begins as Messrs Bounderby and Gradgrind walk through the industrial Coketown. Through the use of metaphorical language‚ and a repetition much like what industry seems to represent‚ and chiasmus the author brings across the point that society is often a reflection of what occurs because as industry mechanizes work‚ it mechanizes the lives of people as well‚ which is said in a rather melancholic tone. “Interminable serpents of smoke trailed” expresses how Dickens
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Introduction General info‚ for example: Time and place written: London‚ 1854. Date of publication: pubished in serial instalments in Dickens’ magazine Household Words from April 1st to August 12th‚ 1854. Time: middle of the nineteenth century Place: Coketown‚ a manufacturing town in South England Discuss idea of people in Victorian age: three classes still Higher class: very few people‚ very fond of themselves and look down at lower class Middle class: not very rich actually but lived a better life
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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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shockwaves through the established order. Dickens several times used his art as a lens to focus attention on the plight of the poor and to attempt to awaken the conscience of the reader. ’Hard Times ’ is set in the industrial smokestacks and factories of Coketown. Indeed‚ ’Hard Times ’
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