Question

The novel describes coketown, a fictitious industrial town, as a grim place full of machinery, smoking chimneys, rivers polluted purple and buildings that all looked the same. Name of the novel is....................

(A) Hard Times

(B) Oliver Twist

(C) Mayor of Casterbridge

(D) Pride and Prejudice

Answer 1

(A) Hard Timesy (1854) describes Coketown, a fictitious industrial town, as a grim place full of machinery, smoking chimneys, rivers polluted purple and buildings that all looked the same. Here workers are known as ‘hands’, as if they had no identity other than as operators of machines.