Category: Book Hard Times

The story mainly revolves around an individual named Mr. Thomas Gradgrind, who had devoted his life to all things factual and calculated, only to discover in the end the importance of compassion and content in a person’s life. He brings up his children, Louisa and Tom under the same discipline, failing to understand that it…

Fancy Versus Fact: A Study of Two of Dicken’s Characters Charles Dicken’s novel Hard Times is a commentary on the shortcomings of the Mid-Nineteenth Century England’s Industrialization Era, which favored the development of human beings into machines, without having any emotions or imagination. The characters in this novel have allegorical shades and… 474 words Hard…