Hard time : for these times

Hard time : for these times 

               Charles Dickens 

This blog related to the blog task based on the victorian literature. "HARD TIME :FOR THESE TIMES" by CHARLES DICKENS.

WRIGHT 

Charles Dickens  is the most popular novelist of the victorian era, he has written  most of his works  as a series in magazines, and he also worked  on the post of manager in editor's office.  He was very famous  because  of his narrative  style, which  always  reflects  the real  facts of society. Dickens is among  those writers  who have faced the harshness of society, the evil side of progress and modernism.

NARRATIVE STYLE OF DICKENS 

The narration of Dickens is most of the times  in first person narration. In a very interesting way he projects the character in such situations.  By Reading his most of the works we come to know  that he has a great knowledge of society  and how evils of society  is connected with each person  who lives in society. 

If we take a look of various characters of Dickens's novels, the characters  are two types, first is very innocent  as Oliver and the other  one is like devilish or we can say horrible like facing and Bill Sykes.  We find them very promoting, they promotes their own times, their  own era but not good elements, we can say for character and narration  of Dickens that,

 " they starts  with defects and ends  with perfection "

HARD TIME: FOR THESE TIMES 

Hard times is the TENTH novel by Charles Dickens, first  published in 1854. Hard times is unusual  in several ways.  In stead the story is set in the fictitious  victorian industrial  coketown, a generic Northen English mill- town, in some ways  Similar  to Manchester, though  smaller.  Coketown may be partially based  on 19th century. 

Major theme of hard time 

Utilitarianism 

The Utilitarianism  were one of the target of Dickens satire.

Utilitarianism  was a prevalent school of thought  during  this period, it's founders  being Jeremy Benthan and James mill, father to political theorist John Stuart mill.

In the novel Hard times, Charles Dickens connives a theme of Utilitarianism, along with education and industrialization. 

Utilitarianism is the belief that   something is morally right if it helps a majority of people. It is a principle involving nothing  but facts and leaves no room for creativity or imagination.  Dickens provides simplicity examples of this Utilitarianism in hard times by using Mr. Thomas Gradgrind, one of the main characters in the book,  who has a hard belief in Utilitarianism.  Thomas Gradgrind is so into his philosophy of rationality and facts that he has forced this belief into his children and as well as his young students.  Mr.josiah Bounderby, Thomas Gradgrind best friend, also studied Utilitarianism, but he was more interested in power and money than in facts. Dickens uses Cecelia jupe, daughter of a circus clown, who is the complete  opposite of THOMAS Gradgrind to provide a great contract of a Utilitarian belief. 

In this novel  Dickens show how Thomas Gradgrind uses a Utilitarian mindset to force facts in the minds of young children.  

   "Stick to facts"

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