Analysis of Hard Times By Charles Dickens Hypocrisy, pompousness and immorality, these are a few of the notions that Dickens successfully adresses and criticizes in his novel Hard Times. ... The city represents the typical manufacturing town of the English midlands around the 1850s, the time in which the novel is set, and plays one of the most important roles. These factors put together the novel Hard Times is a brilliant work of social criticism, not to mention a fascinating read. ... The fire represents warmth and feeling to her and is, in fact, the symbol of love and warmth through...

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"Save England before it blows up, like the springing of a mine" (Hillis-Miller 1998, 31) is the warning embedded in Charles Dickens's Bleak House, though it seems far from the time in which the novel was born. ... Whereas the Chartist is described by Carlyle as one to who "the four-and-twenty letters of the Alphabet are still Roman enigmas to him-, Bleak House notes how it must be strange for a figure like Jo "to see people read and not to have the least idea of all that language -to be every scrap of it, stone blind and dumb". ... In the novel Tom-All-Alone's is described as being ...

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The most prominent of the examples in the novel was the trial of Magwitch and Compeyson. ... Magwitch notes how he is taking the blame for everything, "It was always me that the money had been paid to, how it was always me that had seemed to work the thing and get the profit " (Dickens 350). ...

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