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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McMaster University DigitalCommons@McMaster Open Access Dissertations and Theses Open Dissertations and Theses 1-1-1971 The Social Criticism of Charles Dickens: A Point of View V. Christine McCarthy Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/opendissertations Part of the English Language and Literature Commons Recommended Citation McCarthy‚ V. Christine‚ "The Social Criticism of Charles Dickens: A Point of View" (1971). Open Access Dissertations and Theses. Paper
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Sissy of Hard Times had an important role in Gradgrind’ s opinion‚ couldn’t simplified to a rational. Her capability of description may be easily specified low figure and her mathematic information was very low. Also she was innumerate person. Contrary to emotionlessness of Gradgrind’ s child‚ her imaginary was progressed by her father. (a circus clown) (406) I think there was some resemblances between Sissy and Dickens. Dickens’s father had debts that’s why he was jailed. Then Dickens began to work
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The opening act of Hard Times by Charles Dickens shows a classroom of students being taught by Mr. Gradgrind. Mr. Gradgrind believes that only facts are important in life and strips the children of the right to have imagination. The story opens describing Mr Gradgrind as a man of fact‚ who is not interested in anything frivolous or with imagination. He instructs the children that facts are the only thing that matters in life. He demonstrates this when he calls on girl number twenty. Upon finding
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is allegorized in the scene where Bitzer‚ the allegory of fact‚ chases Sissy‚ who represents imagination since she belongs to the circus‚ through Coketown. ” COKETOWN‚ TO WHICH MESSRS. Bounderby and Gradgrind now walked‚ was a triumph of fact; it had no greater taint of fancy in it than Mrs. Gradgrind herself. Let us strike the key-note‚ Coketown‚ before pursuing our tune. It was a town of red brick or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood‚ it
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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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College Lit332 A Nun of a Different Cloth In Mary E. Wilkins Freeman’s “A New England Nun”‚ Freeman tells the story of Louisa Ellis‚ a young woman who‚ due to circumstances beyond her own control‚ becomes the embodiment of a nun of a different cloth. Louisa patiently waits 14 years for her fiancé Joe Dagget to return from his fortune-seeking in Australia. During this time Louisa learns to value her solitary life. Her days are spent ripping out seams for the joy of resewing them‚ distilling her
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Jojo Moyers. This film is about a young girl named Louisa ‘Lou’ Clark. She goes from one job to the next to help her family keep head above water. She finds herself at an interview for a job taking care of a disabled man. Will Traynor had an accident and has been a quadriplegic for almost two years. Once Louisa started working for the Traynor family she finds herself struggling to get through to Will‚ but she never once gave up on him. While Louisa and Will spend more time together and they start growing
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such as a sense of independence. In the short story “A New England Nun” by Mary Wilkins Freeman the main character Louisa Ellis is a prime example of this statement. While her fiancée Joe is absent for fourteen years in Australia trying to make a fortune Louisa falls victim to her own routine. Louisa becomes independent and set in her own ways. Once Joe returns from Australia‚ Louisa has come to the realization that she has become so independent that she can’t change. Her lifestyle‚ her pets and her
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the main character‚ Louisa Ellis. The dog‚ Caesar‚ and the little yellow canery are symbolic forms of Louisa Ellis. In this story‚ Louisa Ellis waits for a man for 14 years to marry her. Like Caesar‚ who holds the guilt of biting a man‚ Louisa holds the guilt of having Joe Daggat as her first lover. In these 14 years‚ she is stuck in a spotlessly clean house with two animals: a dog and a bird; her house becomes an immediate prison as she waits for a man for 14 years. Like Louisa‚ the dog and bird
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