Review of chapters and ideas in “Hard Times” by Charles Dickens

“Hard Times” was Charles Dickens’ tenth novel. “Hard Times” is a fictional novel set in nineteenth century England. The novel takes place in a fictional industrial revelation town “Coketown.” The story follows an array of characters in events over a long period of time. “Hard Times” is renown as a important novel of the nineteenth century. This essay covers the concepts that make “Hard Times” so significant. The three concepts this essay covers are history, ideas and sentiments, and the art of the novel. This essay looks at these three concepts and uses three chapters as examples.

Hard times” by Charles dickens can be used as a unique insight into what England was like during the industrial revolution. “Hard times” use of setting and people to create picture of life in the nineteenth century. The narrator uses two major methods to illustrate the time to the reader. The way” hard times” shows the history of the industrial revolution is by describing the city of “Coketown.” In chapter five of “hard times” you can clearly see the time period come to life.

In the novel “hard times” the first way that we are exposed to the time period is though the description of “Coketown” the fictional city that is similar to that of an industrialized city in England in the eighteen hundreds. In Charles dickens “Hard Times” at the beginning of chapter five there are several prime examples of the description of “Coketown”. The first example of this is “It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would be red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it. “ Charles dickens is beginning to paint the picture of the town. In this first example we begin to see the narrators dislike of the town. The second example of the description if the town is, “It had a bla...

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...son, the teaching of fact has hurt him. Dickens used both these methods to create this extraordinary novel.

“Hard Times” by Charles Dickens was well rounded; it showed history and setting, ideas and sentiments, and the art of the novel. Hard times” by Charles dickens can be used as a unique insight into what England was like during the industrial revolution. “Hard times” use of setting and people to create picture of life in the nineteenth century. This essay will focus of “hard Times” sentiments of fact and fancy as well as its views of marriage. A good chapter in the book to review these two ideas is chapter twelve from book two. There are two important ways that Charles dickens added his artistic touch to “Hard Times” first by using the narrator and second by the art of consequence. Overall, “Hard Times” was an important work that was innovative and insightful.