for one student the light does not etiolate her skin, but rather irradiates the darkness of her complexion. This young girl, Cecilia (Sissy) Jupe, is the outlier amongst a society filled with people stripped of all imagination and creativity. The environment of Coketown, portrayed in Charles Dickens’ novel Hard Times, is one that suppresses all human uniqueness. Sissy grows up in this industrial environment, and is forced to leave the comfort of her own home when her father abandons her after his failures
Sissy Jupe: More Than Just A Number In Charles Dickens' novel Hard Times, he uses the characters to present the reader with many messages. One of these messages presented is that the Gradgrind system of education is faulty. Dickens is critical of an education system that only regards things that can be weighed or measured as being worthy. Thus, intangibles like imagination, emotion, and compassion are not considered worthy. The Gradgrind system of education can be seen as flawed through the examples
how he treats one of the members of his school. Her name is Sissy Jupe. One day Mr Gradgrind said “girl number 20, who is that girl. Sissy stood up and said “me sir”. Mr Gradgrind asked her name, when she replied he said “sissy is not a name and your father should not call you it!” then Mr Gradgrind asked her fathers job and Sissy told him that he looked after the horses in the circus. Mr Gradgrind said, “right then, define a horse!” Sissy could not do this. Then he asked one of the boys to do this
"the whelp," are nearly destroyed by the strictly mechanical principles of Gradgrindery. It was Hard Times for everyone. Sissy Jupe, who grew up among Sleary's Horse Riding Circus, and was not exposed to the harsh doctrine of the Gradgrind family until later in life, represents the imaginative creativity and generosity that the Gradgrind family misses. The coming together of Sissy and Loo, at the conclusion of the novel at the circus, represents what Dickens believes industrial England needs. "Let
to have imperial gallons of facts poured into them until they are filled to the brim” (Dickens 12). Gradgrind’s methods of education are employed to show Dickens’ view on the evil of the educational system. Among the “vessels” are Bitzter and Sissy Jupe. They exemplify two entirely d...
novel is curiously skeletal. There are four separate plots, or at least four separate centres of interest: the re-education through suffering of Mr. Gradgrind, the exposure of Bounderby, the life and death of Stephen Blackpool, and the story of Sissy Jupe. There are present, in other words, all the potentialities of an expansive, discursive novel in the full Dickens manner. But they are not and could not be realised because of the limitation of length Dickens imposed upon himself. The novel was
masculine manifestation of public speech. The demand for facts can be articulated by Gradgrind and responded to in the appropriate terms by Bitzer, who too, is part of this masculine world, and who can therefore clinically define a horse. Sissy Jupe however, in the face of such assertiveness is unable to react in any terms other than being inarticulate and "alarmed". Dickens however does not share Gradgrind's demands for the masculine "fact". In writing Hard Times Dickens drew heavily
in the book is of Mr. Gradgrind harshly singling out the assumed newest and least experienced (in terms of the strict principles cherished by the people of Coketown) student among his class and ordering her to describe a horse. Although the girl, Sissy Jupe, has traveled with the circus all of her life, which can be assumed as an entity prone to the utilization of the power and grace of an equestrian compliment, she is tongue-tied when asked of the simple task of describing a horse, because she is
Foster Mr. Sparling English 4 May 5, 2014 Sissy and Louisa Charles Dickens' Hard Times is a story which covers many different themes. Dickens uses different characters to express different themes, and two of these characters are Louisa Gradgrind and Sissy Jupe. They are polar opposites of each other and Dickens creates them in this way for the purpose of expressing the effects that different ways of interpreting and living life will have on a person. Sissy and Louisa are similar only in a few simple
Carrie (1976) The 1976 film Carrie was directed by Brian De Palma. The summary of the film is a young, quiet and timid 17-year-old girl name Carrie White. She experiences moments of insanity, she can move objects and make things happen unexpectedly. She has telekinesis that leads up to her ultimate revenge at the prom after a humiliating prank against her. Throughout the movie its form is to the climax of the devastating night at the prom, based on the torment and bullying that the “popular” girls
Brian DePalma adapted Stephen King’s novel Carrie to inspire his horror film Carrie. Carrie is about Carrie White (Sissy Spacek) who is a shy and timid teenager. She is the daughter of Margaret White (Piper Laurie) who is a religious fanatic. Carrie, born with secret telekinetic powers, uses her power to exact revenge on her high school bullies who humiliated her when she had her period at the age of seventeen; Carrie’s menstruation represent her being late in becoming a women. The supernatural film
Throughout Dickens Hard Times, the idea of parental responsibility is explored. This concept is seen the relationships of Gradgrind and his children, Louisa and Tom and indirectly through the abandonment of Sissy by Signor Jupe. While the idea of parental responsibility covers a wide aspect, Dickens explores the parental responsibility to develop morality in children and the parental responsibility to realise faults as a parent. A key character that displays the theme of parental responsibility
Charles Dickens’s Hard Times is a novel divided into three books. These books are titled “Sowing,” “Reaping,” and “Garnering.” Charles Dickens is one of the most important and popular authors of the nineteenth century. He lived in an interesting time and because of his position as a huge popular author, he had the chance to comment on them. Charles Dickens wrote Hard Times to convey his inner feelings of repression of the Industrial Revolution, by putting his characters through the processes of sowing
everything without asking anything in return. Racheal goes as far as to tend Stephen’s wife for the only purpose to help the one she loves. Both the care they impart and the way in which they behave both inside and outside the home are remarkable. Sissy goes as far as to confront Mr. Harthouse, who plays the role of the temper and seduction. This action may infer that a proper Victorian woman must be above the earthly temptations of the flesh. When analyzing Hard Times a number of different points
Dickens' way of thinking and Gradgrind's and M'Choakumchild's. Gradgrind and M'Choakumchild call the children vessels and do not use names but numbers. The children are allowed no independent thought. While Bitzer is how he is "supposed" to be, Sissy Jupe is free spirited and rebellious and exposes the contrast between the two characters. Dickens' wrote Hard Times when society was changing and opinion was frowned on and fact only was needed. Gradgrind and M'Choakumchild are both introduced in
Set in the ever shifting world of the Industrial Revolution, Charles Dickens’ novel Hard Times begins with a description of a utilitarian paradise created by the illustrious and "eminently practical" Mr. Gradgrind, a world that follows a prescribed set of logically laid-out facts. However, readers soon realize that Gradgrind's modern utopia is only a simulacrum, belied by the damnation of lives devoid of elements that feed the heart and soul, as well as the mind. As the years progress, the weaknesses
There are two groups of the lower classes in Hard Times; the factory workers, which includes the characters of Stephen Blackpool and Rachel, and also the members of Sleary's Circus Troupe, which includes the characters of Cecilia Jupe ('Sissy') and Signor Jupe. The lower classes that work in the factories are called 'Hands'. The term "Hands" itself depersonalizes the workers by referring to them through the part of their body that performs their tasks in the factories in which they work
Analysis of the Credibility of Characters in Charles Dickens' Hard Times Hard times was written in 1854 by Charles Dickens. Dickens was a prominent Victorian novelist who wrote about the society that surrounded him. He was educated and middle-class but had some sympathy with the way poor people were treated. He was critical of utilitarianism and felt that those in power showed little understanding of the poor. His sympathy with the poor stemmed from his childhood and his father's inability
Set in the ever changing world of the Industrial Revolution, Charles Dickens’ novel Hard Times begins with a description of a utilitarian paradise, a world that follows a prescribed set of logically laid-out facts, created by the illustrious and "eminently practical" Mr. Gradgrind. However, one soon realizes that Gradgrind's utopia is only a simulacrum, belied by the devastation of lives devoid of elements that "feed the heart and soul," as well as the mind. As the years fly by, the weaknesses of
Gradgrind is introduced first and begins the novel by saying, “Now, what I want is facts.” He believes in teaching children nothing but hard facts. The character of Sissy Jupe, whose father is part of a circus, is also introduced. She is told by Mr. Gradgrind that the circus is not respectable and to not speak of it in the classroom. Sissy does not do well with facts, and prefers to use her imagination. However, Mr. Gradgrind tells her she must not believe in fancy, and instead tells her “you are to