CHARLES DICKENS: HARD TIMES
CHARLES DICKENS: HARD TIMES
11(b) Select two episodes and show how far and in what ways they illustrate Dickens’s condemnation of Victorian England.
In your answer you should:
· Explore and explain your own views of Dickens’s presentation of human evils;
· Look closely at the production of emotional propaganda;
· Comment on the place of relevant issues such as the Industrial Revolution.
Hard Times is essentially a didactic satire upon the Victorian social, industrial and …
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…able to remove themselves from everyday life it proves impossible due to the constant, standardized reminders. In a world where even the smallest of outlets for enjoyment and escape are refused it strikes me that the reason for the ‘Hands’ to ‘get drunk’ and take ‘opium’ is a symptom (of removing pleasures such as Marx’s religious ‘opium’) and not a cause of their appalling conditions, which remain unaltered by their avaricious, rich, self-possessed employers.
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