Question

state the message given by the novel hard times

Answer 1

(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.