Charles Dickens' novel, Hard Times
Date Submitted: 03/08/2004 06:12:53
Category: / Literature / World Literature
Length: 1 pages (361 words)
Category: / Literature / World Literature
Length: 1 pages (361 words)
Charles Dickens' novel, Hard Times, is a story of two struggles--the struggle of
fact versus imagination and the struggle between two classes. It takes place in
Coketown, and industrial-age English city. The novel is divided into two sections. One
deals with the struggle of upper class members of society and their struggle to learn the
value of imagination. The other involves a working class man who is trapped by those in
that upper class who …
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…and middle classes were not just two different classes, but two different worlds.
The book concludes with the upper class characters being forced into accepting that
something other than facts exist. Thomas Gradgrind has given up his philosophy of facts
by allowing his daughter back into his house.
In conclusion, the entire Gridgrind system of facts proves to be a failure, and he
learns that emotions and imagination are the controlling forces in everyones life.
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