Gradgrind struggles to reconcile the fact-driven self-interest of her upbringing with the warmth of feeling that she witnesses both in Sissy Jupe and developing within herself. As this attitude changes‚ Louisa is caught between allegiances to her family and loveless marriage and her desire to transcend the emotional and personal detachment of her past. rising action: Sissy joins the Gradgrind household‚ and Louisa marries Mr. Bounderby unwillingly‚ only to satisfy her father’s sense of what
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bad about her. Sissy‚ the household caretaker is the only one who befriends the little girl. She lives there for two years before Tata takes her back to see Ma‚ who has turned her life around and no longer is dependent on alcohol. She has found herself a new love‚ Uncle Oscar‚ and has gotten over Tata. Pumpkin returns to her father’s farm they experience a bombing and when Pumpkin lets out long overdue tears she lies to Sissy saying Uncle Oscar did grown up things with her. Sissy and Tata are outraged
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Sissy untangled her Legs from Jennica’s and gathered her twisted skirts. She got to her feet and reached down‚ touching Jennica on the cheek‚ “One step at a time‚” she said. She nodded as though she had just agreed something with herself and she added‚ “I will send Petunia Plum to show you.” Then Sissy was gone‚ like the phantom she was known to be‚ and Jennica wondered if she had been there at all. But whether or not the meeting had been imagined‚ she had her answer. She had to
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to have imperial gallons of facts poured into them until they are filled to the brim" (Dickens 12). Gradgrind’s methods of education are employed to show Dickens’ view on the evil of the educational system. Among the "vessels" are Bitzter and Sissy Jupe. They exemplify two entirely different ideas‚ serving Dickens for allegorical purposes. Bitzer‚ the model student of Gradgrind’s school of "facts‚ facts‚ facts" becomes the very symbol of evil in the educational system that Dickens is trying
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Navigate Introduction Criticism Further Reading Copyright Introduction Print PDF Cite Share Charles Dickens Hard Times for These Times The following entry presents criticism of Dickens’s novel Hard Times (1854). See also Charles Dickens Short Story Criticism‚ A Christmas Carol Criticism‚ A Tale of Two Cities Criticism‚ Little Dorrit Criticism‚ and Our Mutual Friend Criticism. INTRODUCTION Perhaps the least-known of all Dickens’s novels‚ Hard
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narrator meets at the “Remaining Men Together” support group are a representation of cultural loss of masculinity. Bob is a former fitness guru who has‚ literally‚ lost his testicles and in their place developed “bitch-tits”. The narrator feels emasculated because of his consumer driven
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the novel is curiously skeletal. There are four separate plots‚ or at least four separate centres of interest: the re-education through suffering of Mr. Gradgrind‚ the exposure of Bounderby‚ the life and death of Stephen Blackpool‚ and the story of Sissy Jupe. There are present‚ in other words‚ all the potentialities of an expansive‚ discursive novel in the full Dickens manner. But they are not and could not be realised because of the limitation of length Dickens imposed upon himself. The novel was
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Breaking the Norms When each of us was conceived‚ we did not have anything influencing our perception of the world. While we were growing up and still do this day‚ our surroundings influenced the way we think and the how we behave in our daily lives. We get ideas about gender roles from our parents‚ our teachers‚ television‚ books and even subconsciously. As part of a project to break the norms of society and push past peoples thresholds‚ I needed to figure out what made people feel uncomfortable
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Knights would write poetry‚ letters and songs‚ anything to serenade and get into the good graces of the lady of his heart and would then build up enough ego to ask his lady to dance‚ when appropriate. It was all rather innocent and sweet and the more sissy in modern thoughts‚ the better it was in those days. Chivalry in the early to mid 1900s‚ I like to refer to as the age of gentlemen. People see movies with people like Fred Astaire and Gene Kelley in them and men would follow their stereotypes to
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