Hard times Coursework Essay

The comparison between employer and employee is stressed e very(prenominal) period Bounderby meets Stephen Blackpool and the comparison can be clearly seen, as when Bounderby and Blackpool are at the table, Bounderbys half is full of silver china and saucers, while Blackpools is empty, this shows the power balance between the two-i. e. all the power is in Bounderbys hands, as is the wealth and the control.Blackpools word is rarely trusted by those in power over Bounderbys and they are so very different in almost all respects, with Bounderbys life victorious its own cource with his allegiance with Gradgrind in Parliament, while Blackpool nevertheless has Rachel caring for him, as compared to the city he is another nobody down on his luck.The falsehood withal shows family bonds through difficult situations, with the major family scenario of the Gradgrinds the son and little girl are raised by their induce in a real heartless way, even though he does not realise this, he does go on to realise his mistake, with the mother of the family disabled and unable to act as around due to sickness, being manipulated by everyone who walks by, as she has no empowerment over anything indeed, and her character suggests she agrees with her husband on the factual upbringing of their children, and also shows the strains the family goes through after Louisa marries Mr Bounderby, and Tom gets involved in the bank robbery, and the family has to someway try to bounce back, save does not manage to succeed with only a neutral prohibiting The other families mentioned are the bond of father and child in Cissy Jupes Tale, the Man and wife in Blackpools unhappy marriage, and the twist in the story with Mr Bounderbys mother appear and explaining his upbringing LanguageDickens uses a variety of techniques in serious times, mostly descriptive giving a chance of detail full(a) enough to imagine it, except for everyones imagination to be different, repetition gets across the ste ely characters characteristics For Louisa he uses a simple vocabulary, using childlike wrangle and simple phrases meant with good intention on her behalf, with no academical subtext or complicated phrases, showing that shes a good and kind hearted person, but also slightly dim compared to the other main characters The oral communication of Mr Gradgrind is invariably very well developed, and while the descriptions of him make us see a rigid robot like figure, he does speak intellectually end-to-end the storyMr Bounderby however is much more(prenominal) rigid in his language and expresses his thoughts using whats a fact instead of whats humane, and this eer puts him in a negative light, he may have been innate(p) upside down where he would have always had such sop ups, and always acted on factual or instinct data to prove his conduct The language of tom and Louisa has two stages during the story, at first they talk in only facts, with little feeling or emotion in their words, but occasionally while in private they speak out freely, or as freely as they can, but in the presence of others they thrum to their blank expressions and factual sentences During toms elder years he begins to talk more like his father, with a free stroke in his speech and has bear some independence while still being accepted by his father and friendsLouisa in her elder years swaps little to her younger resembling and stays rigid and factual, showing a feeling of repressed angriness inside her Mrs Gradgrind is a poorly woman and her language reflects that, being incomplete, with words missing from sentences and grammatical errors if not for which she would sound like Mr Gradgrind, but throughout her brief appearances she keeps her grumbling simple and unimportant The language used by Blitzer is the product of Mrs Gradgrind and Bounderbys teachings and shows the heartless product of their ideal. in the end they both regret their schooling of Blitzer and realise their wrong, but only too late for someThe other controversial language used is that of Mr Sleary the funfair leader, who uses a range of bizarre phrases in between his sentences and makes his appearance misconstrue and diverse compared to the other characters Conclusion So in conclusion with my previous(prenominal) statements, as listed above, the novel Hard times has a monotone view of Victorian societyWith all characters at a set foreshadow being either extremely good or eminently bad, in character and in appearance, much of which suggests that the focus of the story is based solemnly on interaction between characters, and no room for backdrops has been spared from steel bins burning at the stake in the winter cold, glum industrial streets and houses varying from basic to enough all showing the contrast between the rich striving to change society the poor striving to stay out of trouble, and those who strive to be rich