Question

explain the theme of charles dickens ''Hard times''.

Answer 1

Hard Times suggests that nineteenth-century England’s overzealous adoption of industrialization threatens to turn human beings into machines by thwarting the development of their emotions and imaginations. This suggestion comes forth largely through the actions of Gradgrind and his follower, Bounderby: as the former educates the young children of his family and his school in the ways of fact, the latter treats the workers in his factory as emotionless objects that are easily exploited for his own self-interest. In Chapter 5of the first book, the narrator draws a parallel between the factory Hands and the Gradgrind children—both lead monotonous, uniform existences, untouched by pleasure. Consequently, their fantasies and feelings are dulled, and they become almost mechanical themselves.

Answer 2

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✔️Charles Dickens wrote about the terrible effects of industrialisation on people's lives.

✔️In this novel, it describes about a fictitious industrial town called Coketown.

✔️He described this town as as a grim place full of machinery, smoking chimneys, river polluted purple and building that all looked the same.

✔️Here workers known as “hands”, as if they had no identity other than as operator of machines.

✔️ In this novel,Dickens criticised not just the greed for profits but also the ideas that reduced human beings into simple instrument of production.

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