Essays on Hard Times

Charles Dickens’ presentation of characters throughout the novel Hard Times is significant to the perception of the story and the individual characters. Often, the voice of the author can easily sway one’s opinions on the novel they have written, as can be seen in Hard...

Charles Dickens’s Hard Times allows one to analyze and take a greater look into the nineteenth century during the Industrial Revolution. The times of unrest within social classes. Lack of education; “Girl number twenty unable to define a horse!” said Mr. Gradgrind…(Dickens, 2). Dickens writes...

In Hard Times, Charles Dickens excerpts unfair gender relations in 19th century England by representing the unjustified social roles, high set expectations, and discrimination English women faced by their social status as working class women were exploited by industrialization as female characters’ Louisa, Cecelia, and...

Victorian period of 19th century was the time when advancement in science made people skeptical about their traditional values and beliefs. New ideas like Origin of Species by Charles Darwin brought about belief that only things that can be seen, reasoned and experimented upon can...

That commonplace Victorian woman might have been seen as a classic, quiet, and supporting man primarily included done marriage also gathering her husband’s necessities. At those same time, those Victorian ageists to England might have been identifier toward the fast-moving investment Also social improvement bringing...

Many of the writers that we were assigned to this semester used nature as a base to convey their messages. During their era, the perception of nature was evolving in a number of ways alongside writing styles. Considering its evolution, it is no surprise that...