‘Her calling seems to be pretty well known among ’em,’ observed Mr. Bounderby. HARD TIMES By Charles Dickens. The jail might have been the infirmary, the infirmary might have been the jail, the town-hall might have been either, or both or anything else, for anything that appeared to the contrary in the graces of their construction.

‘Yes, sir,’ said the girl reluctantly. As a consequence his obedient daughter Louisa marries the loveless businessman and 'bully of humanity' Mr Bounderby, and his son Tom rebels to become embroiled in gambling and robbery.

Literature is part of our lives. Where are you going! ‘No, I wasn’t, sir!’ cried Bitzer. Feeding both his pupils and his family with facts, he bans fancy and wonder from young adult minds. It begins to expound one of the main themes of the book, namely the application and continual deference to free market principals in all aspects of existence such that anything non-tangible, not purchaseable, such as emotional wellbeing, the creative inner mind, and a propensity to… Then came Mr Gradgrind and Mr Bounderby, the two gentlemen at this present moment walking through Coketown, and both eminently practical, who could, on occasion, furnish more tabular statements derived from their own personal experience, and illustrated by cases they had known and. No? Similarly, the sun’s rays represent both the physical and moral beauty that Coketown …

Then came the total Society, who complained that these same people would get drunk, and showed in tabular statements that they did get drunk, and proved at tea parties that no inducement, human or Divine (except a medal), would induce them to forego their custom of getting drunk. The Go-Between by L. P. Hartley, 1st.

An’t you a horse-rider! Let us strike the key-note, ‘Was this boy running after you, Jupe?’ asked Mr. Gradgrind. It’s the nine oils.’ How dare you dash against—everybody—in this manner?’ Bitzer picked up his cap, which the concussion had knocked off; and backing, and knuckling his forehead, pleaded that it was an accident. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. She lived upon nothing but victuals and drink; Victuals and drink were the whole of her diet. Posted in Literature | Leave a Comment. You wouldn’t have thought of saying such mischief if you hadn’t been a horse-rider?’ ‘Dear, no, sir! I never looked at her, sir. Coketown, to which Messrs. Bounderby and Gradgrind now walked, was a triumph of fact; it had no greater taint of fancy in it than Mrs. Gradgrind herself. An’t you one of the rest! Lecture 2: Middle English Poetry/ Chaucer, Shylock’s speech ‘If it will feed nothing…, For God’s sake, let us sit upon the ground, Lecture 12: King James I, Drama, & the Puritans, Lecture 14: John Donne’s School I – Features of Metaphysical poetry, lecture 15: John Donne’s School II features of Metaphysical Poetry, Lecture 16: Metaphysical & Cavalier Poets, Prose in the Renaissance powerpoint slides, Lecture 23: The Novel: Richardson, Fielding, & Sterne, Lecture 24: Augustan Poetry: Pope, Montagu, & Leapor, William Wordsworth ~ My Heart Leaps Up ~ The Rainbow, Lecture 30: Victorian Literature: The Novel, Lecture 34: Introduction to English Literature: General Review, Introduction to E. Lit. The rest of its features were voluntary, and they were these. It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood, it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage. Coketown from ‘Hard Times’ by Charles Dickens Read the following extract from ‘Hard Times’ by Charles Dickens, and then Discuss the way he depicts the City. The novel is set in the same time place that it was written – the mid-1800s in England. It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage. Almost as they did so, there came running round the corner of the street at a quick pace and with a frightened look, a girl whom Mr. Gradgrind recognized. ( Log Out /  Facts alone are wanted in life. I asked her if she would know how to define a horse to-morrow, and offered to tell her again, and she ran away, and I ran after her, sir, that she might know how to answer when she was asked. Filled with the details and wonders of small-town life, Hard Times is a daring novel of ideas - and ultimately, a celebration of love, hope, and the limitless possibilities of the imagination. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.

Is it possible, I wonder, that there was any analogy between the case of the Coketown population and the case of the little Gradgrinds?         Victuals and drink were the whole of her diet, Coketown lay shrouded in a haze of its own, which appeared impervious to the sun’s rays. ( Log Out /  If the members of a religious persuasion built a chapel there—as the members of eighteen religious persuasions had done—they made it a pious warehouse of red brick, with sometimes (but this is only in highly ornamented examples) a bell in a bird-cage on the top of it. Also you will watch videos with musics of The Beatles, Paul McCartney, Sepultura, Amalia Rodrigues, Taiguara, Iron Maiden, etc. Fact, fact, fact, everywhere in the material aspect of the town; fact, fact, fact, everywhere in the immaterial. The extract under analysis is taken from Hard Times, a novel written by Charles Dickens in 1854.It focuses on the setting of the novel: Coketown, an industrialized city. THE COMPLETE STORIES BY TRUMAN CAPOTE - Reviewed b... Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.' takes you through the back d... McCall Smith has many books brewing, just like bus... Detective Fiction' gets P.D.

James solves the mystery of living a full lif... Ezra Pound: Poet. Because, who ever did, the labouring people did, not. Coketown did not come out of its own furnaces, in all respects like gold that had stood the fire. Tell me what you know. . "COKETOWN" by Dickens Introduction Figures of speech This passage taken from "Hard Times" is centred on the description of the industrial centre of Coketown, an imaginary industrial town in the north of England, similar to Preston, where the story is set and where Mr Gradgrind, It begins to expound one of the main themes of the book, namely the application and continual deference to free market principals in all aspects of existence such that anything non-tangible, not purchaseable, such as emotional wellbeing, the creative inner mind, and a propensity to… ‘What are you doing? His character was not unkind, all things considered; it might have been a very kind one indeed, if he had only made some round mistake in the arithmetic that balanced it, years ago. It was a town of machinery and tall chimneys, out of which interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever, and never got uncoiled. ‘By George!’ said Mr. Bounderby, ‘when I was four or five years younger than you, I had worse bruises upon me than ten oils, twenty oils, forty oils, would have rubbed off.

It had a black canal in it, and a river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye, and vast piles of building full of windows where there was a rattling and a trembling all day long, and where the piston of the steam-engine worked monotonously up and down, like the head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness. Let us strike the key-note, Coketown, before pursuing our tune. Hard Times (Chap 1.5) Lyrics The Keynote Coketown, to which Messrs. Bounderby and Gradgrind now walked, was a triumph of fact; it had no greater taint of fancy in it than Mrs. Gradgrind herself. You understand what I mean. If you should hear a dog, sir, it’s only Merrylegs, and he only barks.’

You know the horse-riders are famous for never minding what they say,’ addressing Sissy. Questions and stds’ input, Reading the English version for “Men in the Sun” for Bonus. ‘He frightened me so,’ said the girl, ‘with his cruel faces!’ These attributes of Coketown were in the main inseparable from the attributes of the work by which it was sustained; against them were to be set off, comforts of life which found their way all over the world, and elegancies of life which made, we will not ask how much of the fine lady, who could scarcely bare to hear the place mentioned. Then came the experienced chaplain of the jail, with more tabular statements, outdoing all the previous tabular statements, and showing that the same people would resort to low haunts, hidden from the public eye, where they heard low singing and saw low dancing, and mayhap joined in it; and where A. Fact, fact, fact, everywhere in the material aspect of the town; fact, fact, fact, everywhere in the immaterial. . who could scarcely bear to hear the place mentioned. We are introduced properly to Coketown, the major setting of this excellent Dickensian novel, in Chapter 5 of Book the First.