Part one of term paper
rd Times “On every page Hard Times manifests its identity as a polemical work, a critique of Mid-Victorian industrial society dominated by materialism, acquisitiveness, and ruthlessly competitive capitalist economics” (Lodge 86). The quotation above illustrates the basis for Hard Times. Charles Dickens presents in his novel a specific st ...

Part two of term paper
... through his giving name to the three books contained in Hard Times. The titles of the three appropriately named books are an allusion to the Bible, and are also “given a further twist in Gradgrind’s recommendation to ‘Plant nothing else and root out everything else’ (except facts)” (Lodge 91). In the first book, titled “Sowing, ” we are introduced to those that Dickens creates a firm character basis with. The opening chapter emphasizes on Thomas Gradgrind Sr., and his students f ...