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I The Industrial Revolution Of 19th Century
1,629 wordsI. The Industrial Revolution of the 19 th century. 1. The impact on the society. 2. The great changes as after-effects of the Revolution. II. Hard Times an industrial nov. 1. Coketown an ordinary town of that time: a. great economic changes in the town; b. Josiah Bounderby the embodiment of a powerful bourgeois 2. Political changes: a. the necessity of reforms; b. trade unions; c. relationships between classes. 3. Ideological and moral changes: a. utilitarian attitude; b. morally corrupted upper...
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Hard Times By Charles Part 2
2,520 words... this Dickens is emphasising the loss of both nature and religion, through biblical allusions and also references to the seasonal changes in nature, which contrast so strongly with the unnatural citadel. Carl Marx famously said that Religion is the opium of the people, this is clear to see in Coketown, where there is an absence of Christianity and if the members of a religious persuasion had built a chapel there they made it a pious warehouse of red brick, witha bell in a bird cage. Dickens d...
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Josiah Bounderby Stephen Blackpool
1,123 wordsA firm character basis is the foundation upon which any good novel is built. For an allegorical novel, Dickens has a surprisingly complex character foundation. The characters in Hard Times have both the simplistic characteristics of a character developed for allegorical purposes, as well as the intricate qualities of real people. These characters think and feel like we do and react to their situations in the same way that most of us would. These attributes are what give the characters life and a...
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Quot Quot Communist Manifesto
2,314 wordsEurope began the nineteenth century dominated by the romanticists. The realists changed the face of Europe once more by the middle of the nineteenth century. The importance of science and the industrialization of Europe characterized their movement. Where the romanticists believed in feelings, intuition, and imagination, the realists believed in a movement known as positivism, which applied the scientific method to the study of society. The authors of this period also changed their style of writ...
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Josiah Bounderby Thomas Gradgrind
778 wordsHard Times by Charles Dickens Irony Hard Times, by Charles Dickens, was a representation of his time. Times were hard for children and adults alike. People who questioned what they were taught, often went through struggles and hard times. Eventually, the people who were looked down were the ones who really helped those in need. Throughout the book, there are many ironic instances. Thomas Gradgrind was a man built on the idea that facts and statistics were the only truth in life and all that was ...
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