Dickens And His Stucture Of Ha
Beginning of paper
rd Times
“On every page Hard Times manifests its identity as a polemical work, a critique of Mid-Victorian
industrial society dominated by materialism, acquisitiveness, and ruthlessly competitive capitalist
economics” (Lodge 86). The quotation above illustrates the basis for Hard Times.
Charle ....
Middle of paper
.... In the first book, titled “Sowing, ” we are introduced to those that Dickens creates a firm
character basis with. The opening chapter emphasizes on Thomas Gradgrind Sr., and his students
fittingly referred to as “vessels before him ready to have imperial gallons of facts poured into them
until they are filled to the brim” (Dickens 12). Gradgrind’s methods of education are employed to
show Dickens’ view on the evil of the educational system. Among the “vessels” are Bitzter an ....
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