Analyzes the first 7 chapters of the Charles Dickens novel, Hard Times. Discusses what message Dickens is trying to portray to the reader. Examines issues such as value judgements of people and family values.

Explores the thematic opposition between fact and fancy, or 'the head' and 'the heart' in Charles Dickens's novel Hard Times. Explores the rivalry between these philosophies as a central theme to the Hard Times, as well as a fundamental crux of human existence.

Describes how a number of pre 1914 writers use their text to criticize society. Includes a look at Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell, Hard Times by Charles Dickens and works by Jonathan Swift. Discusses how all the writers make their points in different ways.

In Charles Dickens' novel Hard Times, he uses the characters to present the reader with many messages. One of these messages presented is that the Gradgrind system of education is faulty. The Gradgrind system of education can be seen as flawed through the examples of Sissy Jupe.

The dehumanizing effects of industrialism as shown in the novel "Hard Times" by Charles Dickens, the film "Modern Times" by Charlie Chaplain, and the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx.

Dickens shows his moral views in `Hard Times' expressing his belief that Victorian schools and their teachers are complete negative influences. He saw the Victorian education system as ineffective and often wrote essays attacking the forces of industrialisation, the government and those responsible for what he saw as the poor schooling techniques.

Essay provides a character analysis of the character of Thomas Gradgrind Jr. in the novel "Hard Times" by Charles Dickens.

In Charles Dickens's "Hard Times," Dickens uses imagery to suggest that Coketown is unnatural, over industrialized and monotonous. He uses colors that connote anger and evil, and he uses animal imagery and metaphors to give the feeling that this modern town is in fact similar to something very primal.