Charles Dickens Hard Times

Title: Hard Times Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback Language: English Pages: 248 Publisher: , 0 ISBN: 1598189484 Format: PDF / Kindle / ePub Size: 7 MB Download: allowed

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"Hard Times" is regarded as one of Dickens' darker novels. It introduces the character of Thomas Gradgrind. Like many of Dickens' characters, Gradgrind's name tells the reader much of what they need to know. As schoolmaster Gradgrind says, "Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts, sir!" Gradgrind's factual upbringing dooms his children, Tom and Louisa, in different ways. The book is set in "Coketown," an industrial city. Because of its treatment of the role of factory work, as well as education, in society, "Hard Times" was thought to be a "socialist" work at the time of its publication. It was also written during a time when Dickens was experiencing trouble in his own marriage, and it features a number of unhappy couples and much family discord. Less popular at its publication than many of other Dickens' works, "Hard Times" remains one of the most taught of Dickens' major books, possibly because of the group, it is the shortest.

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Cori: From my blog: NOTE: I listened to the audio version.

For some reason, I could never get into Dickens. I was an English major, for goodness' sake. I tried David Copperfield. I tried the Pickwick Papers. I tried Oliver Twist. All meh, and I didn't finish any of them. I have, however, enjoyed many a film adaptation of his novels, including Bleak House (fan. tas. tic.) and Nicholas Nickleby, so I knew that it couldn't be that bad.

Anyway, my friend Hillary has recommended Hard Times for a long time, so when I saw it at the library, I picked it up. I've decided that as far as Dickens goes, I need to have someone else read it for me. Someone to do the voices and read with the right emphasis. I guess I'm lazy when it comes to Dickens. And I'm okay with that.

And it was FRACKIN' AWESOME. (Can you really call Dickens FRACKIN' AWESOME? Don't you have to say he was "spot on, jolly good fellow" or something?) Anyway, Martin Jarvis was the reader and he was SO GOOD. So fantastic that I went out and requested more things read by him just so I could hear him talk some more. Apparently he's one of the audio book greats out there, if there is such a thing. Dickens was so alive when Jarvis read it. The characters, the settings, the lists and statistics, the ... everything, was amazing because of Jarvis. I'm pretty sure the book was good, but I think I would be raving had Jarvis read out of the phone book.

*stops obsessing about Martin Jarvis's reading abilities* The novel centers around the Gradgrind family and some of their friends (and not-so-friends).

The children are raised adhering to facts while living in a society that worships the machines their town run on. Their father dismisses anything fanciful and imaginative. As the novel progresses, relationships are made and broken, and the characters come to the realization that

there is much more to life than just the facts.

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Tempi difficili sono quelli vissuti dalle nuove generazioni nate nelle squallide cittadine industriali soffocate dalla polvere delle miniere, che si trovano a vivere in un’epoca di bieco materialismo, basato sul mito del profitto, della produttività e della statistica, educati nelle scuole in cui i criteri didattici si fondano esclusivamente sui Fatti, dove la creatività e l’immaginazione sono bandite perché nocive alla formazione del carattere dell’”uomo moderno”.

Dickens ci presenta un vivido affresco della società a lui contemporanea, schiavizzata dalla Rivoluzione Industriale, che vive solo di benessere materiale e di accumulazione di ricchezza, ed alleva generazioni di uomini e donne aridi nel cuore, poveri di umanità e di sentimenti; lo scrittore, con un fondo di pungente ironia, tratteggia una serie di personaggi che non si salvano nelle loro esistenze dallo squallore, sia da quello esteriore che li circonda, che da quello interiore che li consuma. Su tutti emerge Sissy, una giovane nata e cresciuta in una comunità di circensi, allevata con affetto da suo padre, il quale sarà costretto poi dalle difficoltà della vita ad abbandonarla: lei, alla fine, rimane l’unica figura“vincente”, l’unica persona che dispensa grazia e bontà verso il prossimo, la sola ancora in grado di sognare, di immaginare al di là della meccanica realtà dei Fatti.

L’evidente intento didascalico di Dickens non scalfisce la gradevolezza del romanzo, espressione di critica sociale che emerge, seppure edulcorata, in ogni pagina.

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Joana Marta: Ai Dickens Dickens… I can’t think it took me this lengthy to begin interpreting your books. Now I simply are looking to have all of them close to me and browse them one after another, similar to a loopy fan. tough occasions occurs within the imaginary city of Coketown, equipped via Dickens. An business town, the place we meet the eminently functional Thomas Gradgrind and Josiah Bounderby, the 1st outlined as an utilitarian, who teaches how to not “wonder”, and the latter as an image of materialist thinking. after which we have now little Sissy Jupe, a woman from the circus, who's every thing yet utilitarian or materialist… Due to a few relations circumstances, Sissy is taking cared during this kin by way of Thomas Gradgrind, additionally along with his different children, younger Thomas and Louisa. that they had

additionally been pointed out simply via evidence and aren’t allowed to visualize or fantasize approximately anything. We can simply see how the schooling through proof affected younger Thomas and Louisa once they develop up. Louisa is dispassionate approximately life, with the one exception of his brother; she simply survives, with none hopes or dreams, even if a wedding idea is made to her, she couldn’t be extra detached to it. Thomas is selfish, he basically cares approximately himself or even Louisa isn't really a priority of his. Thomas Gradgrind simply starts off to think about the unwanted effects of it while Louisa searches for him, with a issue she isn’t capable of solve… Then now we have Stephen Blackpool, unhappily married to a inebriated woman, he's an commercial worker, one of many many “Hands”, in Bounderby’s factory. Accused of a crime, after having issues of his Union, he's the main most probably suspect in line with the conditions of it. yet may particularly be him? And I don’t understand if i finished up loving or hating Mrs Sparsit, yet she yes is an unforgettable character!!! Once again, Charles Dickens didn’t permit me down, not so good as nice expectancies or David Copperfield yet still, well worth the reading!!!

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