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But if he was no philosopher, nor even a trained mind, he was something as valuable: "an astonishing diagnostician of life," as D.H. Lawrence has been called. "His sensitive nose could smell death a mile away." And it is precisely those elements of nineteenth-century economic thinking that denied life which he is attacking in Hard Times...
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There he had traced its consequences in official attitudes towards poverty and in the working of the New Poor Law. In Hard Times the attack is on its consequences in education, as is made clear in the wonderful satire of the opening chapters, in which Sissy Jupe, whose whole life has been spent among horses, is convicted of ignorance of their essential nature, as compared with Bitzer, whose "correct" definition of a horse could have been given equally well by someone who had never set eyes on the animal...
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Hard Times In "Hard Times" there is a teacher called Mr Gradgrind, Mr Gradgrind set up a school As a charity. Although this makes him sound like a kind man he is quite the opposite...	5 / 1400
Hard Times-Charles Dickens As a charity. Although this makes him sound like a kind man he is quite the opposite. He is very harsh and cruel man. I know this because of how he treats one of the members of his school...	5 / 1384
Hard Times The novel can be summarized as a book about two struggles. One struggle is between fact and imagination and the other is the struggle between two classes...	6 / 1656
Hard Times The novel can be summarized as a book about two struggles. One struggle is between fact and imagination and the other is the struggle between two classes...	6 / 1656
Hard Times E-mail: jsilwl4ever@aol.com The book Hard Times written by Charles Dickens is a story about a Lancashire Mill Town in the 1840's. The novel is divided into three books...	7 / 1899
Hard Times E-mail: jsilwl4ever@aol.com The book Hard Times written by Charles Dickens is a story about a Lancashire Mill Town in the 1840's. The novel is divided into three books...	7 / 1899
Hard Times By Charles Dickens Thomas Gradgrind was a man built on the idea that facts and statistics were the only truth in life and all that was needed to have a healthy and productive life...	3 / 700