1. Stephen Blackpool/A pathetic figure
Stephen Blackpool: The Pathetic Figure Charles Dickens's Hard Times is one of the most important novels in the Victorian Age. ... In this age, England prospers in manufacture and trade because of high technologies. ... He says that they are " generically called " the Hands"- a race who would have found more favor with some people, if the Providence had seen fit to make them only hands, or, like the lower creatures of the seashore, only hands and stomachs- lived a certain Stephen Blackpool, for forty years of age." ... Slackbridge is cunning, not honest, not manly, not good- humored, but...
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- Grade Level: High School