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WORK
COKETOWN
CHARACTERS
- Mr. Gradgrind, an educator what belives in facts and statistic
- Bounderby, he treats the workers in his factory as emotionless objects that can be easily exploited
- Luisa and Tom
THEMES
Hard Times focuses on the difference between the rich and the poor
criticize the materialism and narrow-mindedness of Utilitarianism (the basic Victorian attitude to economics).
SETTING
Coketown is a fictional city. It represents an industrial town of mills in mid-19th century Victorian England.
All the buildings are covered in soot from coal burned in the factories and they are all the same. The mill owners seem to be proud of Coketown's polluted air.
STYLE
- Dickens employed effective language
- he created the graphic descriptions of life and of the character, choosing adjectives, repetitions of words and structures, hyperbolic and ironic jokes.
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