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Essay #6 - Character Analysis: Louisa In the novel Hard Times, Dickens presents a character by the name of Louisa Gradgrind Bounderby who had suffered from her father’s education system. Mr.Gradgrind’s philosophy forced Louisa to “discard the word fancy altogether” (11) causing her to base experiences on facts and not ...

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... father see the wrong doing of his philosophy of facts. It becomes evident that Louisa had suffered from her fathers education system when Mr.Gradgrind had presented Louisa with Mr.Bounderby’s proposal of marriage. Upon Louisa’s response, Mr.Gradgrind had inquired whether or not she might have had another proposal which he was unaware of: “You have never entertained in secret any other proposal”(79). This led to Louisa revealing how her fathers school of facts had not permitt ...