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HARD TIMES (1854), children - Coggle Diagram
HARD TIMES
(1854)
AIM
-unbearable life without compassion and immagination
-danger of becoming
like a machines.
-showing the bad side
of strictly teaching facts
MAIN CHARACTERS
THOMAS GRADGRIND
school superintendent
Louisa
JOSIAH BOUNDERBY
self-made man
factory owner
THEMES
Facts vs Creativity
Industrialism and its evil
Hard work in factories, bad life conditions
Every city is like Coketown, grey and sad
SETTING
The novel is based in the fictional town of Coketown, that is like an hellish land
PLOT
thomas Gradgrind founds a school
he raises his children to repress their feelings
Bounderby marries a much younger woman (Gradgrind's daughter)
she wants to help her brother but he betrays her
at first he gets away with it but then they find out
thomas realizes he has to give up his narrow mindset
children
working people