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Hard Times The Theme Of Utilitarianism
1,831 wordsH 2 >Historical Background The late 18 th and early 19 th centuries were an era of great change in Europe. The Industrial revolution happened in many countries, but was initially focused on Britain. The Industrial Revolution centered on the production of iron and the steam engine. Later, railways and increasingly mechanized forms of manufacturing would develop. The urban population increased rapidly and cities were transformed into centers of industrial production. They became overcrowded...
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Hard Times The Theme Of Utilitarianism
1,819 words... e a white complexion an indication that education has literally stripped them of individuality. A chapter, where this process is described is named Murdering the Innocents which refers to replacing the rich personalities of children with cold and impersonal utilitarian attitudes. In his description of the Coketown community, Dickens highlights the fact that it is not a healthy society. The workers have no escape from their problems. People resort to alcohol and drugs; crime is rampant and th...
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18 Th And 19 19 Th Centuries
1,485 wordsIn the wake of the Industrial Revolution of the 18 th and 19 th centuries, the rift between the rich and the poor became wider and more irreparable. For those trapped in the underclass workforce, life seemed bleak and ridden with poverty give that they had no representation in the political arena and working conditions were perilous. The Industrial Revolution created a society where social classes were sharply schismatic. Charles Dickens under the visage of fiction and Karl Marx via nonfiction c...
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Thomas Gradgrind Upper Class
365 wordsCharles Dickens' novel, Hard Times, is a story of two struggles -- the struggle of fact versus imagination and the struggle between two classes. It takes place in Coketown, and industrial-age English city. The novel is divided into two sections. One deals with the struggle of upper class members of society and their struggle to learn the value of imagination. The other involves a working class man who is trapped by those in that upper class who trap him in a dreary existence. Thomas Gradgrind, t...
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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 1
2,522 wordsHard Times by Charles Dickens Outline I. Introduction. 1) Hard Times is essentially a didactic satire upon the Victorian social, industrial and educational systems. 2) Charles Dickens wrote Hard Times in 1854. 3) Dickens illustrates his condemnation of Victorian England through number of examples. II. Body 1) Dickens offers a wide range of characters from the upper class factory owner to the lowest class factory workers. 2) Bounderby's values and attitudes are indicative of the era of the indust...
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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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19 Th Century Oliver Twist
1,615 wordsDescribe How Social Conditions Were Conveyed By Describe How Social Conditions Were Conveyed By Any 19 Th Century Author. Describe how social conditions were conveyed by any 19 th Century Author. Charles (John Huffam) dickens born at Portsea near Portsmouth on 7 th February 1812. Dickens had some schooling, but his real education was the streets of London. All the best scenes in his later novels deal with London Characters. Dickens appealed to social consciousness to overcome social misery. His ...
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Free To Roam Stay With The Gradgrind Facts
742 wordsThe one most necessary thing in education, according to Mr. Gradgrind, a retired hardware merchant of Coketown, was facts. In his harsh and somewhat closed view, all human events were susceptible of measurement; they could be reduced to balances with so many facts on one side and so many facts on the other side. According to him, admiration's, imagination and even sentiment were useless and disturbing factors that had a tendency to destroy the balance, and should therefore, be eliminated by ever...
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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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P 22 P 92
341 wordsThe mood that Dickens creates in? Hard Times? is a very dark and polluted mood that portrayed in Coketown. James Harthouse describes Coketown upon arriving in it saying that it is an? extraordinarily black town? (p. 92). Also, in a conversation with Mrs. Spirit, he inquired, ? Will you allow me to ask if it? s always as black as this? ? (p. 92). She answers? In general much blacker? (p. 92). The mood of this town is a dark area covered with ashes from the factory chimneys. The bricks in Coketown...
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Quot Quot Stephen Blackpool
1,948 wordsThe book Hard Times written by Charles Dickens is a story about a Lancashire Mill Town in the 1840? s. The novel is divided into three books. Dickens titles the books accordingly to prepare the reader for what is about to come, and throughout the novel he shows the effects of the education system, the setup of the caste system, and the Industrial Revolution had on society through this small town of Coketown. The main characters of the novel show the English caste system of the 19 th century by s...
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Twentieth Century Interpretations Jersey Prentice Hall
1,762 wordsTimes That Truly Were Hard When we think of hard times in todays world, our thoughts might consist of the number of days before we get paid, an argument with our spouse, or simply that our car is not operating so great these days. Most people today can not begin to imagine what hard times were like during the Industrial Revolution. In nineteenth century England, hard times to the factory workers may have consisted of watching ones nine-year-old child tied to a machine in the mill for fourteen ho...
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Industrial Revolution Stephen Blackpool
3,615 wordsHistorical Background The late 18 th and early 19 th centuries were an era of great change in Europe. The Industrial revolution happened in many countries, but was initially focused on Britain. The Industrial Revolution centered on the production of iron and the steam engine. Later, railways and increasingly mechanized forms of manufacturing would develop. The urban population increased rapidly and cities were transformed into centers of industrial production. They became overcrowded, as people ...
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John Stuart Mill D H Lawrence
1,994 wordsThe shortest of Dickens novels, Hard Times, was also, until quite recently, the least regarded of them. The comedy is savagely and scornfully sardonic, to the virtual exclusion of the humour that delighted apprehension of and rejoicing in idiosyncrasy and absurdity for their own sakes, which often cuts right across moral considerations and which we normally take for granted in Dickens. Then, too, the novel is curiously skeletal. There are four separate plots, or at least four separate centres of...
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