Part one of term paper
In the novel Hard Times by Charles Dickens, Stephen Blackpool’s life and death were symbolic. Stephen was a forty year old man that looked older, who worked for a man named Bounderby as a power-loom weaver. His life was filled with the troubles that a lower-class person must withstand. His name, Blackpool, was symbolic of his life. He lived ...

Part two of term paper
... about the working conditions. Bounderby refused to even think about the notion of changing the working conditions. He also made Blackpool look like he was a traitor to the other workers. They regarded him as an outcast, even though in actuality he was trying to help them. Stephen was married to a “disabled, drunken creature, barely able to preserve her sitting posture by steadying herself with one begrimed hand on the floor”. She had left him for years and he paid her, but she soon returne ...