Hard Times

Hard Times Read is an unusual novel written in 1854 by charles Dickens. Unlike his other novels, this one doesn’t have a preface or illustration. The events in the novel took place in fictious industrial coketown, not London. Although the reader can understand smoothly that the events happened in london. The novel surveys the English society and social, economic conditions in London.

Hard Times Read shows Dicken’s inner-suffering with such miserable conditions. He drew a real picture of the streets and the kind of life in london. It is satirical that the real purpose behind writing this novel is that the sales of Household novel written by Dickens were low. So, he had no intention to be cteative this time.

Anyone could fall in love with the detailed image he pictured. Hard Times Read pictured poor children who were engaged into crime world, thieves with their cruelty and dirty streets which full of diseases. Ha captured the distinguished difference between the poor and the rich as a social clash.

He tackled plenty of fundamental themes in Hard Times Read, like loss of morality and principles, utilitarianism and fact vs. fancy. He drew the characters of capitalists as materialistics who only care about their own interests.

Hard times Read is a realistic approach for you to understand the poor and miserable conditions that took place in london. It helps you -as a reader-to engage into the analysis of the characters of the novel. No wonder now that the novel wes being studied as Curriculum all over the world.