industrialisation created various social economic problems discuss in detail any three of them with reference to Charles Dickens novel "hard times"
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INDUSTRIALIZATION
In Hard Times Dickens sharply criticizes the poor living conditions of the working class in industrial towns. He depicts life in a fictive industrial town Coketown as a symbol for a typical industrial town in Northern England of that time. It is a place full of exploitation, desperation, and oppression. Soot and ash are all over the town; it is a dirty and suffocating place.
The workers have low wages and work long hours. The work begins before sunrise, the production is important and there is no regard for the rights and suffering of the low class. Children in school are taught according to Utilitarianism philosophy – they should accept and live according to facts and facts alone, they are not allowed to fantasize or think for themselves.
In Coketown, machines cause great pollution. Industrial workers have no chance of progress in life. The upper-middle-class ignores their misery (Bounderby) and denies imagination and creativity (Gradgrind). Utilitarianism exerts the mechanization of society and the human mind. The character of Sissy Jupe represents the personification of fact vs. fancy conflict, she tries hard to learn facts, but is unable to, she freely thinks and imagines. She is the most stable character because she succeeds to find a balance between the two. Dickens points out the flaws and limitations of the newly created industrial society and the necessity of social reform.