Charles Dickens Essay Examples Page 6

In the novel, Hard Times, Dickens uses irony to satirise the Victorian society. To be more precise, he mainly satirises cities’ ongoing industrialism, the nature of humans as well as other things. Dickens uses the technique to ridicule, or to condemn, things he finds ridiculous or bad. In the first chapter, The One Thing Needful,…

This passage is from the second part of the book “Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens. This is the part at which Pip has arrived in London and is on his way to go and see Jagers. His is told to wait as Jagers in a court meeting and when he mentions that he wishes to…

Dickens’ family had been quite comfortable when he was born in Portsmouth in 1812, but his parents weren’t very skilled at managing money. When he was about twelve years old, his family was confined to debtor’s prison, in London. Poverty had personally scarred Dickens. One reason why Oliver Twist was so popular was that Dickens…

The work of Charles Dickens is widely based upon the social conditions of the period. The novel ‘Oliver Twist’ presents the conditions of life at the time, and the largely exaggerated characters portray the nature of the people then. This is in an attempt to confront some of the issues of the time, including poverty…

In the novel, Dickens presents education in a very old fashioned way. Thomas Gradgrind is obsessed with teaching just facts and that people must not use their imagination. He has a school run by Mr M’Choakumchild. Mr. Gradgrind, whose voice is ‘dictatorial’, opens the novel by stating ‘Now, what I want is facts’ at his…

The conditions at “Dotheboys Hall” school in “Nicholas Nickelby” were unprivileged. The school was so poor that the children had to eat “cold, runny porridge” and work in bitter conditions Mr. Squeers feared that if they used all the stuff they could not make a profit out of the school. They could not afford anything…

Explore how Dickens presents the theme of education in the first two chapters of Hard Times. What point might he be making about the educational system of his day? Dickens felt and believed that the educational system of his day was too utilitarian, that it was based too much on fact and reason. Also, he considered…

Do you think that the characters in Hard Times have credibility? Are they fully developed or are they merely ciphers representing philosophical ideas? 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…

‘Hard Times is a novel by Charles Dickens. It was created in sections; Sowing, Reaping and Cornering. Education was very strict and normal with opinions being forbidden. Gradgrind states “Facts alone are wanted in life” The school was not a stimulating place and you weren’t allowed to get your point across, there are also all different…

Charles Dickens is what we would all think of as the classic writer of Victorian England, and he is leading some people to refer to Victorian England as Dickensian England. In hard times Dickens talks about a northern industrial town called Coketown, although fictional we can work out it is based on the town of…