explain the theme of the novel hard times
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(i) The theme of Charles Dicken’s ‘Hard Times’ revolves around the terrible effects of industrialisation on people’s life.
(ii) It describes Coketown, a fictitious industrial town, as a grim place full of machinery and smoking chimneys, where workers are known as ‘hands’ without a name.
(iii) Dickens criticises the system which turned the human beings into mere instruments of production.
(ii) It describes Coketown, a fictitious industrial town, as a grim place full of machinery and smoking chimneys, where workers are known as ‘hands’ without a name.
(iii) Dickens criticises the system which turned the human beings into mere instruments of production.
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The book Hard Times, written by Charles Dickens symbolises the loss of people. In this book a place called Coketown is bieng described. There are smoking chimneys, purple rivers due to pollution and people are described as hands as they have no identity rather than operators of machines.
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