5/9/2023 0 Comments Hard Times by Charles DickensRich or poor, however, the lives of all the characters in Hard Times are profoundly shaped by the great changes that attended industrialization in England. Bounderby and people of means like the Gradgrinds. The novel is concerned in part with the plight of those, like Stephen Blackpool, whom those achievements have affected negatively or passed by, but more of its narrative actually concerns the lives of the middle and upper classes: factory owners such as Mr. Various hints in the novel make it clear that the novel's setting is more or less contemporary with its composition. Discovering Dickens - A Community Reading ProjectÄickens wrote Hard Times in 1854, in the middle of a century and an era that prided itself on its social, economic, and scientific achievements.
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