Hard Times
The story Hard Times is set in an imaginary town by the name of Coketown. Coketown “was a town of red brick, or of some 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 a painted face of a savage. 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. 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 pistons of the steam-engine worked monotonously up and down like the head of and elephant in a state of melancholy madness. It contained several large streets all very much like one another, and many small streets still more like one another, inhabited by people equally like one another, who all went in and out at the same hours, with the same sound upon the pavements, to do the same work, and to whom everyday was the same as yesterday and to-morrow, and every year the counter part of the last and the next.” “Fact, fact, fact everywhere in the material aspect of the town; fact, fact, fact, everywhe
re in the immaterial.” I feel that these quotes were necessary for you to see the environment in which the townspeople have been brought up. One night Mr. Harthouse goes to meet Louisa and tells her that her brother is very much in debt due to a gambling problem. She tells him that she is also worried about her brother, who soon appears. Louisa leaves and Tom hell Mr. Harthouse that Louisa married Bounderby for his sake so why will she not help him get out of his mess? While Louisa runs to her father for help, Mrs. Sparsit runs to Mr. Bounderby to tell him of the alleged affaire. They immediately went to Stone Lodge to see Mr. Gradgrind and to tell him about his daughter and about the affaire. When they get there Mr. Bounderby demands to know where Louisa is. Her father says that she has been at his house ever since the conversation that Mrs. Sparsit overheard. Mr. Bounderby tell Mrs. Sparsit that he wants an apology but she says that her nerves are too shaken while she keeps on crying.
Some topics in this essay:
Stephen Blackpool,
Stone Lodge,
Coketown Coketown,
Stephen Bounderby,
Pegler Bounderby,
James Harthouse,
Bounderby Stephen,
Lodge Gradgrind,
Louisa Tom,
Bounderby Sissy’s,
stephen blackpool,
tells bounderby,
stone lodge,
stephen tells,
bounderby upset,
circus sissy,
stephen tells bounderby,
bounderby stephen,
louisa tom,
start talking bounderby,
principle bring,
tells louisa,
taught gradgrinds school,
doing taught gradgrinds,
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Approximate Word count = 3472
Approximate Pages = 14 (250 words per page double spaced)
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