these‚ they reaped unhappiness‚ disillusionment and destruction‚ loneliness‚ and ostracism. Each character reaped a harvest of his own making. In the third book‚ we see the characters picking up the pieces of what is left of their lives. Mr. Gradgrind‚ after realizing the failure of his system‚ tries to help his children‚ and finally starts to act as a concerned father. At the same time we can see Bounderby‚ who was found out to be a fraud is left alone without his reputation. Each if the characters
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The Loss of Victorian Morality The Victorian era marks the period of Queen Victoria’s reign over England from 1837‚ until her death in January 1901. It was an age of new prosperity brought about by thriving industrialization‚ new scientific discoveries and technology‚ which encouraged the rise of an educated middle class. This new age also brought about a shift from agriculture to manufacturing‚ causing mass immigration into cities. City life provided Victorians with freedom and anonymity from
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upper class in the novel. Mrs. Sparsit clings fiercely to her heritage and faded glamour. She is arrogant to those beneath her and despises the efforts of the workers to organize a union. Harthouse is revealed as cynical and directionless. He seduces Louisa‚ one of the important
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language a scrooge‚ for example is a miser. His characters were often so memorable that they took on a life of their own outside his books. Gamp became a slang expression for an umbrella from the character Mrs. Gamp and Pickwickian. Pecksniffian and Gradgrind all entered dictionaries due to Dickens’s original portraits of such characters who were quixotic‚ hypocritical or vapidly factual. Many were drawn from real life. Mrs. Nickelby is based on his mother‚ though she didn’t recognize herself in the portrait
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TOPIC:-What is Moral Fable? How can you say that Hard Times is a Moral Fable? BY: CHETAN ANKUR Moral fable combines the left (logical) & right (creative) side of the brain‚ so it both entertains creatively and validates certain types of behaviour‚ morally. The creative part is the fairy tale which often involves animals rather than humans. It speaks to our hearts as it entertains us; the ending is the logical‚ moral conclusion that satisfies our logical
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“I assert without exaggeration that no power of language could describe the varieties‚ and I may say the cruelties‚ in all the degradations of human form [in the factories]” – Parliamentary debate on Workers’ Conditions April 1879. To what extent does the language in Hard Times‚ Major Barbara and Thomas Hardy: The Complete Poems‚ degrade humanity and for what reason? The motives of Charles Dickens‚ Bernard Shaw and Thomas Hardy for presenting humanity as degraded‚ through their language‚ differ
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‘Hard Time’s as a novel of social realism is wholly unsuccessful. Do you agree? ‘Hard Times’ is a novel based on a short visit made by the author Charles Dickens to a town similar to ‘Coketown’ called Preston. He made this journey in an attempt to identify the social problem of the exploitation of factory workers. Dickens was sensitive to the social abuses which pervaded the Victorian society and so with an approach of a utilitarian denial of human imagination; he used the factories of the fictional
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Sample answers Literature in English 9695/51-53 These three sample answers are for 9695 AS/AL Literature in English Paper 5. They are intended to give an idea of the range of response and the requirements at the top‚ middle and middle/bottom of the mark range. They are not necessarily ideal or model answers‚ but are chosen as being representative answers on model texts. UCLES 2010 2 Example 1 UCLES 2010 example 1 3 Example 1 UCLES 2010 example 1 4 Example 1
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Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich Bakhtin in his essay‚ “Forms of Time and Chronotope in the Novel” states “A literary work’s artistic unity in relationship to an actual reality is defined by its Chronotope” In a chronotope‚ Bakhtin claims‚ “spatial and temporal marks are fused into a meaningful and concrete whole. Time here thickens‚ grows denser‚ becomes artistically visible; likewise‚ space becomes more intense and drawn into the movement of time‚ plot‚ history" A chronotope is therefore‚ a method of "artistically
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Dickens was born in Portsea‚ in 12. His father‚ John Dickens‚ was a kind and likeable man‚ but incompetent with money‚ and due to his financial difficulties they moved to Camden when Dickens was nine. When Charles was twelve his father was arrested and taken to the debtors’ prison in Southwark. He started working at Warren’s blacking-warehouse and its strenuous working conditions made an impression on him‚ later influencing his fiction. He became interested in writing (and acting) and‚ after having
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