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Morality play of hard times by charles dicken

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Questions About Morality and Ethics

Statistics is used as tool of surveillance in the novel, trying to police the behavior of the workers and to evaluate their morality (religious observance, drinking habits, etc.), and we are meant to find this practice unsavory. Compare it to the way the narrator analyzes the behavior of the men assembled at the unionization meeting. How are the two different? The same?Does Bounderby think of himself as an ethical person? What about Louisa? Stephen?Which characters' morals change during the course of the novel? How and under what influence?How important is Christianity to the novel's moral message? Are there other moral ideals put forth in Hard Timesbesides Biblical ones