Item: Hard Times
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Hard Times Hard Times by Charles Dickens displays ideas of gender, class, politic of the Victorian Age but also it represents the importance of education, social categorization, and social impacts of the individuals. The novel has relevant ideas in those perspectives. Dickens portrays a misleading society. Charles Dickens (1812-1870) is an English author and critic. Not only for his time but also today, he is a well-known author. He mainly defines the Victorian age. 1854 is the year when he publishes Hard Times. There are necessary characteristics of the Victorian Age in the book. The first significant point is that the location of the book is Manchester where the working-class lives. The industrial social life's effects are apparent in the book. The book begins with a girl whose name is Sissy Jupe. She likes illusions of the world, imaginations, etc. But she does not match with the Thomas Gradgrind’s analytic ideas who support that ‘’this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts, sir!’’. Because in his idea there is only black and white or two plus two always four. Another notable concern is that ‘The school children are treated as numbers from an early age, just as the workers'. The beliefs are required to place in their minds. Sissy comes from the working class and her father can not afford the economical obstacles. He lefts her daughter and she has to stay with Gradginds and she always waits for a letter from her father. The conditions here are related to the Victorian Period working-class difficulties. It is because of the political, social, and economical circumstances of the time which require people to work extremely hard and survive in horrifying conditions. Why people work extremely in the working-class is related to the litigation government system because the utilitarian belief is looking for a productional finish. The main result was the ideas of majorities’ success or pleasure. The story takes place in Coketown where working-class' life is in and also the area described as grey, foggy, or dirty. When Louisa comes to Coketown, Stephan makes a statement about the social circumstances of Britain and he states that ‘’ Hard-working conditions are the two so deeply separated in this town, that there is no place whatever for an honest workman between them?’(174). Indeed, the conditions of the Victorian age have not mercy for the working class. It creates oneness and people work like a machine and this is manifest in that ‘’ it contained several large streets all very like one another ‘’.( 15 )The most important goal was to resources for The Industrial Revolution like cotton or mice. As Charles Dickens writes realistic as much as possible, the various utilitarian ideologies are portrayed. One of the important scenes is that when Louisa learns that Mr. Bounderdy wants to marry her, she does not reflect on her emotions even asks her feelings about his father. Her father replies that ‘I find, on reference to the figures, that a large proportion of these marriages are contracted between parties of very unequal ages, and that the elder of these contracting parties is, in rather more than three-fourths of these instances, the bridegroom.’’(105). He always looks at numbers or rates rather than passions. Their view is linked with the success of everything and also Josiah Bounderby is a banker which means this a pragmatic choice for her because he is a wealthy guy. These pragmatic ideas related to utilitarianism. The purpose is to teach the thoughts in the schools. The education of the Victorian Era affects common life. The most apparent scenes are when Thomas Gradgrind forbids imagination and new creations that not based on actuality. Allsup explains that ‘The fundamentalist philosophy of education is a governing philosophy...judgments are passed, not reached; answers are given, not argued.’ (140). It does not create differences of opinions and makes the society as identical. It is linked with engineering because those times have rapid changes in terms of changes. But what they do not form in the school is morality. There are moral failures like the obvious one is when the real robber who Tom steals money from the bank and Louisa comes back to her father when she is seen with Mr. Jem. The problem is not suitable for the society as noble ones or as they are in the high class, it is not fitting them. This is what Dickens needs to point out that the idea of utilitarianism of the high class is creating wrong purposes for society. The lower class was not permitted to vote even if there was parliament. So the higher class was the one who designs the society. Stephan and Silly are from the lower class and they are criticized by the others. Stephan is accused of being a criminal and Silly is accused of being not intelligent. At the end of the novel, people understand that they are innocent. they became the ones who change practices and society become moral and people begin to like each other. To sum up the importance of Hard times, Dickens influences how social understanding can touch personal life. It does not matter the specif period for these issues as gender issues or economic, othering, educational obstacles. Because problematic concepts can control all the time carelessly. When Dickens analyzes utilitarianism, he reaches all the social contexts of the time.

Hard TimesCharles Dickens · Dejavu Publishing · 20111,050 okunma

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