George Dickens 's Hard Times

The beginning of the video started off by introducing a man named John Dickens, who worked at a naval pay office on the docks of Portsmouth, and lived in a small house at 387 Mile End Terrace. His wife was Elizabeth Barrow who he met at his office, and who he also had a kid with named, Charles Dickens. But within 7 months of Charles being born everything seemed to go wrong for them, from running into financial problems to being forced to move to several different locations, until they settled in a house up the hill from the docks of Chatham, London. This is where Charles had his happiest memories of his childhood.

Charles Dickens was a champion of the abused poor on account of his repulsive experience when he was compelled to work in a processing plant as a child.[citation needed] (His dad, John Dickens, ceaselessly lived past his methods and in the long run went to indebted individuals' jail. Charles was compelled to leave school and started working ten-hour days at Warren's Blacking Warehouse, acquiring six shillings a week.)[citation needed] His sensitivities, in any case, lie with the progressives just to a limited degree; he censures the crowd franticness which soon sets in. At the point when lunatics and ladies slaughter eleven hundred prisoners in one night and hustle back to hone their weapons on the grindstone, they show "eyes which any unbrutalized viewer would have given a quarter century life, to petrify with an all around coordinated firearm".

Utilitarianism, a philosophy that values the happiness of the general population above the happiness of an individual, ironically caused more than its fair share of sorrow. Thriving in the Industrial Revolution’s environment of corrupt businessmen, lethargic politicians, and draconian educators, utilitarianism seeks only quantifiable results, abandoning emotion and imagination in favor of facts. With its opening exclamation of “Facts, facts, facts!” Charles Dickens immediately makes it clear that Hard Times intends to critique the flawed obsessions of utilitarianism. Most notably, he introduces the Gradgrinds of Coketown, an unmistakable product of a society gone dreadfully wrong. Look no further than Mr. Gradgrind, Dicken’s personification

Today in British society, class systems are still as prevalent as they were in the 19th century, there are seven social classes, ranging from the elite at the top to the extreme poor at the bottom. Typically in English society social class was always defined by occupation, wealth, and education with an addiction of social and cultural classes added. Social classes is a prevalent aspect of British society since before recorded history, it was the addition of money, land and title that increased the division of the classes. As the industrial revolution swung into full force, the division of classes strengthened. Social mobility became a common occurrence as society developed and moved forward towards the twentieth century. This holds true in the novel Hard Times, written by Charles Dickens in the Nineteenth century, examines the British class system through examples of social relationships and the labor force. (4)

In Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Estella Havisham and Pip are a product of physical and psychological abuse that shapes their opposing perspective in the novel. Pip understands the notion of love through Mr. Joe and his relationships with the varying characters, while Estella remains cold and incapable of loving anyone, including herself under the affluence of Miss Havisham. Estella was considered “the great expectation” at the time because she represented the beauty and affluent ideals of the Victorian Age. Pip on the other hand, an indigent boy who could scarcely sound out words and was apprenticed to a blacksmith. These two distinct, yet similar worlds of Estella and Pip will leave them longing for something more that evidently influences their perspectives of the events in the novel, the notion for love. Estella marries into an abusive relationship at the conclusion of the novel, while Pip experiences various losses of family and friends, forcing him to realize that human compassion is greater than societal standing.

A Tale of Two Cities is composed by Charles Dickens and it happens in France and England amid the beset times of the French Revolution. The characters goes to both nation yet the vast majority of the story happens in Paris, France. The problem area of the French revolutionists, generally happens in a wineshop in Paris, on the grounds that the wineshop proprietor is Ernest Defarge and his better half, Madame Defarge are the key pioneers and authorities of the transformation. The move in the book makes put in many parts of Paris, for example, the Bastille, Tellson 's Bank, the home of the Manettes and generally in the boulevards of Paris. This spots bring many characters into the story.

Charles Dickens was an adored, creative and respected British author of several literary pieces that are at this time are referred as classics. He was born on February 7, 1812, in Portsmouth which is located on the southern coast of England. Charles Dickens had a very rough upbringing. He didn’t have the ordinary life a child has. Between seven brothers and sisters he was the second born. His parents raised them together until his father whose name was John had accumulating amounts of debts which in the long run got his arrested and sent to a debtors ' prison. John was an exceptionally caring and easy going kind of guy. Charles Dickens was twelve when his father went to prison. His mother took all her children and moved into the prison

The fictional novel, Hard Times by Charles Dickens, concentrates on the Gradgrind family; of Mr. Thomas Gradgrind, his daughter Louisa, and son Thomas Jr. A major theme of friendship is portrayed in the books through the character of Mr. Gradgrind as he struggles with the idea of friendship between other characters. According to the Nicomachean Ethics, by Aristotle, it explains a detailed account of friendship and what it is to be a friend to others. In comparing the character Mr. Gradgrind in Hard Times, to the 5 basis of friendship written in the Nicomachean Ethics, Mr. Gradgrind cannot be a friend to others because he does not use emotion but rather factual evidence in his actions toward his children. The novel confirms Aristotle’s view of friendship with Mr. Gradgrind, proving that the standards need to be set up in order to have a proper friendship and relationship with others.

The class system exists in practically every country of the world and in any time period one can imagine; it is a staple of civilization and a socially constructed layering of order for its nation’s residents. With these premises arise the main three categorizations in the class system: lower, middle, and upper class. This essay focuses on aspects of the lower class within the novel Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens, and how class change affects perceptions of others, particularly of those of different social status. According to Dictionary.com, “lower class” is defined as, “a class of people below the middle class, having the lowest social rank or standing due to low income, lack of skills or education, and the like.” In broad terms, they’re known as “the working class.” The beginning of Great Expectations finds the protagonist, Pip, as a young boy within this class. The story progresses when Pip’s longing to raise his social status is fulfilled, but his self-righteous opinion of his own character inflates and his regard for people who are “beneath” him degrades. Through Pip’s journey of self-discovery, Dickens demonstrates that power, wealth, and social standing are unimportant factors to one’s happiness and their personal virtue.

During the Victorian Era many people greatly helped shape the future trough their deeds of heroism and courage, some of these people include Queen Victoria, Florence Nightingale, Benjamin Disraeli, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and Charles Dickens. These people not only helped to shape the Victorian Era, but also created many things we still use today. Some important scientists include Charles Darwin, and Alexander Bell. Without these scientists we might not have some of the basic necessities of the modern day. Now you might be wondering to yourself what these ladies and gentlemen did to be so important? After reading this you are going to understand what contributions they made to the world that made them famous.

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The beginning of the Nineteenth Century yielded many technological advances that took their toll on the world. Great Britain’s economy began to thrive with these advances that led to efficient production lines, railways, and, most importantly, the ability to make better technology. Though at the time these advances seemed to improve many aspects of daily life, Charles Dickens only saw the negative effects that this new way of life imposed upon unsuspecting families. As a victim of the Industrial Revolution, which left many of the working class, including his own family, in a horrible state of living, Dickens grew up in a wretched environment brought on by an advancing society. His early life led to his ambitions of escaping the poverty

Charles Dickens’s novel Hard Times critiques the use of extreme utilitarianism as an acceptable means to governing a society in which citizens are able to lead happy, productive, flourishing lives. “Just the facts,”19th century English utilitarianism argued, are all one needs to flourish. Those answers that we can arrive at by way of mathematical, logical reasoning are all needed to live a full human life. Hard Times shows however that a “just the facts” philosophy creates a community inhospitable to the needs of one another, a society nearly void of human compassion, and one lacking in morality. Underlying the novel’s argument is the Aristotelian concept that the primary purpose of government is to

Charles, son a divorced parents, second middle child of six siblings, the man of his mother’s household. Being the oldest of three boys, the youngest in his mother’s home, but also the man under his mother’s “roof,” as she would call it, the last thing he needed to have happen was lose a male role model in his life. Due to the living conditions, Charles would be to himself, quiet, awkward, antisocial, but loved sports. In school he would stay to himself, only talking to his sister, Angelica (she was two years ahead of him), for the time she would be attending school with him. After school Charles had nothing to look forward to besides going home to his toys, seeing his two oldest older sisters, and talking to his father on the phone for a couple minutes every day about anything they felt like talking about. Except on Fridays, on Fridays Charles and his sister Angelica would go to their father’s home after school and stay with him on the weekends. Charles didn’t want to be more like anyone then his father, he didn’t want to be closer to anyone then his father, and he didn’t want to talk to anyone more than to his father. To Charles those weekends with his Idol; his father were when he could be nothing but himself, a young boy who just wants to enjoy life.

In Hard Times, Dickens presents life philosophies of three men that directly contradict each other. James Harthouse sees one’s actions in life as meaningless since life is so short. Mr. Gradgrind emphasizes the importance of fact and discourages fantasy since life is exactly as it was designed to be. Mr. Slearly exhibits that “all work and no play” will make very dull people out of all of us. He also proclaims that one should never look back on one’s life and regret past actions. Dickens is certainly advocating Sleary’s life philosophy because the subjects of the other two philosophies led depressing and unhappy lives. This is made clear when Louisa realises her childhood of fact without fancy has ruined her, when Tom’s life falls apart after leaving his father’s home in rejection of his strict parenting, and when Mr. Gradgrind himself realises the faults in his own philosophy and devotes the rest of his life to virtue and charity.