Thoughts and Notes on Dicken's portrait of Industrial Society in his novel "Hard Times" by Charles Dickens. Good starting point. Includes quotes + refs which may be helpful.

Thoughts and Notes for an Essay Discussing Dickens portrait of Industrial Society in his newfangled Hard Times

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Dickens, Charles. Hard Times, ed. Kate Flint, London: Penguin Books, 1995.

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- Dickens is unmistakably have by a comprehensive vision, one in which the inhumanities of straightlaced civilisation are seen as fostered and sanctioned by a hard philosophy, the aggressive formulation of an inhuman society (F. R Leavis)

- Believed that the occupation of industrial cities resulted from the poor education children received. Mainly due to the pedagogics of incident without fancy. Quotes that can be used to back up this statement

- Facts just (p.1)

- Stubborn Fact (p.1)

- Town built of fact, fact, fact (p.28)

- Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life (p.9)

- Also unornamented in the characterisations of Gradgrind, Bounderby and Bitzer.

- Gradgrind is the head of the school, and aims to extrapolate any sense of vagary in the children. He is described as Thomas Gradgrind, sir. A man of realities. A man of fact and calculations (p.10). An example of this is his word of his children when he finds they have been at the Circus. The school and circus take contrasting worlds. School as the world of fact, and the circus as the world of fancy. Also again mirrored in his discussion of Sissy Jupe when he asks her to describe a horse. She has been around horses tout ensemble her life and Gradgrind scoffs at her when she is unable to do it.



He thus asks Bitzer to describe it, and he gives a description devoid of emotion, bascially stating that a horse is a graminivorous quadraped(p.12). He then goes...

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