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write note on charles dickens ' hard times'

Answer 1

Hard Times – For These Times (commonly known as Hard Times) is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book surveys English society and satirises the social and economic


Hard Times is unusual in several ways. It is by far the shortest of Dickens' novels, barely a quarter of the length of those written immediately before and after it. Also, unlike all but one of his other novels, Hard Times has neither a preface nor illustrations. Moreover, it is his only novel not to have scenes set in London.Instead the story is set in the fictitious Victorian industrial Coketown, a generic Northern English mill-town, in some ways similar to Manchester, though smaller. Coketown may be partially based on 19th-century Preston.

One of Dickens's reasons for writing Hard Times was that sales of his weekly periodical, Household Words, were low, and it was hoped the novel's publication in instalments would boost circulation – as indeed proved to be the case. Since publication it has received a mixed response from critics. Critics such as George Bernard Shaw and Thomas Macaulayhave mainly focused on Dickens's treatment of trade unions and his post–Industrial Revolution pessimism regarding the divide between capitalist mill owners and undervalued workers during the Victorian era.F. R. Leavis, a great admirer of the book, included it – but not Dickens' work as a whole – as part of his Great Tradition of English novels.

Answer 2

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✔️Charles Dickens wrote about the terrible effects of industrialisation on people's lives.

✔️In this novel, it describes about a fictitious industrial town called Coketown.

✔️He described this town as as a grim place full of machinery, smoking chimneys, river polluted purple and building that all looked the same.

✔️Here workers known as “hands”, as if they had no identity other than as operator of machines.

✔️ In this novel,Dickens criticised not just the greed for profits but also the ideas that reduced human beings into simple instrument of production.

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