Hard Times
Hard Times, by Charles Dickens, is a portrayal of times during the Industrial Revolution. Dickens is a famous writer who wrote many celebrated works such as Great Expectations and David Copperfield. Charles Dickens describes in great detail how the Industrial Revolution has changed the lives of the people of the period of time. "In Hard Times, Dickens gives his vision of how Utilitarianism affected factory life, by describing labor relations, and how it affected education, by portraying a model school. In a factory, Utilitarianism views the workers as units of labor, "Hands" from whom the maximum work must be extracted at the minimum cost. In a Utilitarian school, pupils are viewed as "Vessels" to be filled with the maximum number of facts at the minimum outlay of expense. The same man might own both the mill and the school, as Dickens"(page 9, introduction). All the students attend a school know as model school. From early childhood the students are taught the disregard feelings and thinking for facts and knowledge. Dickens portrayal of the charac
I only wondered it should be worth his while, who cared for nothing else, to care so much for me. For example:" 'Girl number twenty,' said Mr. An Dickens portrays women as having a very important role to play in the lives of all men. " (Page 15)This example portrays how unkind and basically rude Mr. Women's Emotions can, at times, be very influential over men. In Hard Times, Dickens portrays women as an influential power over men through emotions and love as a strength rather than weakness. Therefore, for the Gradgrind family, there is no loving nicknames given to members of the family because it is not proper. Gradgrind, squarely pointing with his square forefinger, 'I don't know that girl. But as the book proceeds, it is evident that Thomas Grad rings, is becoming more compassionate to women as well as more understating of their position in life. "Father, chance has threw into my way a new acquaintance; a man such as I have had no experience of; used to the world ; light, polished ,easy; making no pretences; avowing the low estimate of everything, that I don't know how or by what degrees, that he understood me, and read my thoughts. He also portrays the struggles of a group of people trying to survive through the Industrial Revolution.
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