Louisa Gradgrind‚ the Heroine There are many different protagonists in the story “Hard Times” as many of the characters play an important role in the story however the characters that have the greatest influence upon the story line include that of Mr.Gradgrind‚ Thomas Gradgrind‚ Louisa Gradgrind‚ Josiah Bounderby‚ Stephen Blackpool and Cecelia Jupe. I believe Dickens has chosen the fates of the protagonists of the story by looking at their various characteristics meaning a negative character will
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of this present within Hard Times is Louisa Gradgrind. Louisa is brought up in a house headed by a Utilitarian school teacher‚ her father Thomas Gradgrind Sr.‚ and with a quite and docile mother‚ Mrs. Gradgrind‚ who is unable to convey her own emotions‚ let alone foster any in her children. Due to her father ’s suppression of her emotions and Utilitarian society‚ Louisa-who held so much potential- is quelled and left as an empty and hollow device. When Louisa is introduced in Chapter three‚ she
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Characters: Most important characters in the book are Louisa Clark and Will Traynor. Louisa Clark is an average girl with a spunky fashion sense‚ and she was hired by Will’s mother to keep Will company. Will is an adventurous guy who later in his life gets hit by a motorcycle causing him to become a quadriplegic‚ basically he’s paralyzed from the top of his spinal cord all the way down. Events: The most important events to me are when Will jokes about Louisa giving him a bath‚ Will’s death‚ and the epilogue
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Louisa May Alcott‚ or more commonly known as the author of the classic novel‚ Little Women‚ was born on November 29th‚ 1832 at Germantown‚ Pennsylvania. She was the second of four daughters born to Bronson and Abigail “Abba” Alcott. She had an older sister named Anna‚ and two younger sisters: Elizabeth and May. Through her writing and her novels‚ she managed to create a name for herself and achieve financial security for her family. She was truly a successful American author. Though the Alcott
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Alcott Analysis by:Celestina Padilla I began reading The Brothers thinking it would be similar to some of Louisa Alcott’s work I had read previously. I did not think I would actually learn a moral from the short tale. This story is heavily about human compassion and identifying with others perspectives. Alcott’s upbringing put life into the story. Louisa Alcott had volunteered to be a war nurse the year 1862. She is said to have done so shortly after reading about the suffering soldiers had to
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of reasons. In the short story‚ “Louisa‚ Please Come Home”‚by Shirley Jackson‚ the main character‚ Louisa‚ runs away from her home. After three years‚ Louisa was forced to return back home‚ but her family does did want her back because she was a fraud. In the short story‚ “Louisa‚ Please Come Home”‚by Shirley Jackson‚ the main character‚ Louisa‚ thinks only about herself‚ is friendless‚ and is immature. Louisa only thinks about herself. Thus so because Louisa ran away the day before of her sister’s
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Thomas Gradgrind is a man bereft of any imagination or fancy‚ and perhaps that is why he is a staunch believer in the practicality of the education system. He discards wonderment and regards facts and figures as the ultimate path to learning. In the novel Hard Times‚ the author Charles Dickens has shown Gradgrind as an educationist‚ and hence has portrayed him implementing his views on both his pupils in the school‚ as well as on his family. He expects his students to engage in nothing but factual
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Based on what you read in the poem‚ describe the relationship between the speaker and the “you” in the poem. How important was the relationship to the speaker? Support your response by referencing directly to the poem. In her poem “Since You” the poet Dionne Brand‚ has expressed a very profound romantic relationship between her speaker and the “you” in the poem. She has also revealed that the relationship was the most important thing in her speaker’s life. Dionne Brand makes these views to be
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Louisa Lawson was a newspaper proprietor‚ Australian poet‚ writer‚ publisher‚ suffragist‚ and feminist. She was the mother of the poet and author Henry Lawson. Louisa Lawson was an independent and sophisticated woman who fought for women’s rights during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in Australia. In May 1889‚ Louisa launched the campaign for female suffrage and announced the Dawn Club where women met to discuss every question of life and work to gain experience in public speaking
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What relationship exists between Wilde’s ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ and Will Self’s recent adaptation‚ and to what extent is Self’s transformation of the original a response to the new social context within which he is writing? The introduction will outline how Wilde’s original version could be read as a story with a moral‚ drawing on the myth of Narcissus and Goethe’s Faust‚ and that on a basic level‚ Self’s text operates in the same way. Referencing Houston A. Baker Junior’s essay “A tragedy
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