The novel Hard Times by Charles Dickens offers a glimpse into the life and times during the industrial revolution in England during the nineteenth century. Dickens offers a wide range of characters from the upper class factory owner to the lowest class factory workers. He creates characters in this range of social classes and crafts this story that intertwines each person and their transformations throughout the novel. Almost every character in this story is complex and has characteristics that
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Case Study One The following case study covers LO1 Surviving Greenscape’s Hard Times In ten years‚ Greenscape had grown from a one-person venture into the largest nursery and landscaping business in its area. Its founder‚ Lita Ong‚ combined a lifelong interest in plants with a botany degree to provide a unique customer service. Ong had managed the company’s growth so that even with twenty full-time employees working in six to eight crews‚ the organization culture was still as open‚
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1) Discuss the theme of parental responsibility in Dickens’s Hard Times. Refer to specific passages and scenes from the novel. Throughout the book Hard times by Charles Dickens there is a theme of parental responsibly or more appropriately‚ parental irresponsibility. This is majorly highlighted through the relationship between Mr Grandgrind and his two children‚ Tom and Louisa. We also can see an irresponsible parent relationship between sissy Jupe and her father. Mr Grandgrind only thought that
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2014 The Plight of English Women Hard Times by Charles Dickens‚ and Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe illustrate the role of women in British society from the 16th to 19th century. Specifically‚ the female characters from Moll Flanders and Hard Times contrast one another through the hardships they encounter as a direct consequence of their gender and social standing. The books indicate a slow progression and expansion of women’s roles in Britain over time. However‚ the progression of women in British
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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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Ritsie Armington Mrs. Thompson AP English Lit 11/6/12 In the novel‚ “Hard Times‚” Charles Dickens uses Mr. Gradgrind‚ Louisa Gradgrind and Sissy Jupe to express his view on Utilitarianism. Utilitarians believe “our moral faculty‚ according to all those of its interpreters who are entitled to the name of thinkers‚ supplies us only with the general principles of moral judgments; it is a branch of our reason‚ not of our sensitive faculty; and must be looked to for the abstract doctrines of morality
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Hard Times Symbolism‚ Imagery & Allegory Sometimes‚ there’s more to Lit than meets the eye. Fairy Palaces and Elephants (a.k.a. Factories and the Machinery inside them) This one is from the narrator and runs throughout the novel: the idea that the ugly‚ square‚ fact-based‚ oppressive mills look like fairy palaces with elephants in them when they are lit up at night. The image first pops up as something a person riding by Coketown in a fast-moving train might say – in other words‚ someone who
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The novel Hard Times by Charles Dickens is a fictitious glimpse into the lives of various classes of English people that live in a town named Coketown during the Industrial Revolution. The general culture of Coketown is one of utilitarianism. The school there is run by a man ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature . This man‚ known as Thomas Gradgrind‚ is responsible for the extermination of anything fanciful and integration of everything pertinent and factual into the young‚ pliable
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Notes on Doctorow’s Welcome to Hard Times Outstanding Writer Course: Dr Z. Ramin Sara Khazai ‚ 2014 Historical Background: 1950s-1960s In The Sixties‚ Arthur Marwick describes the Fifties as “rigid”: [R]igid social hierarchy; subordination of women to men and children to parents; repressed attitudes toward sex; racism; unquestioning respect for the authority in the family‚ education‚ government‚ the law‚ and religion‚ and for the nation-state‚ the national flag‚ the national anthem; Cold War
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Although introduced almost seventy-three years apart‚ Charles Dickens’ novel Hard Times‚ and Fritz Lang’s Metropolis share many common parallels and themes. Through the use of biblical allusions‚ both Lang and Dickens are able to compare characters in their stories to holy figures such as Freder and Stephen Blackpool being alluded to as Christ-like. Both stories also show the harsh effects of industrialization‚ and present similar situations of with the school children and factory workers living
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