As it is clear in the whole life of this work, the most prominent changes brought by the industrial revolution are more social and human ones than economic. Social conditions and
British people‟s state of being did not know stability from the very beginning of the industrialization to the late Victorian age. The economic and materialistic results of the industrial revolution may be considered, because of its influential impact, as causes, more than consequences themselves, for social and human changes.
The industrial revolution with its materialistic and environmental changes brought about the social, human and mental disruption. The emergence of a new social class caused a new social-class stratification, and then a new social order, when …show more content…
In Hard Times, the factory system does not reveal any importance and respect for the workers. They are treated like heartless and emotionless objects by heartless and emotionless exploiters. Children at Gradgrind‟s school are treated like
„calculating machines‟, programmed for a specific attitude. The two scenes of school and factory lives, under which the society is, reflect the mechanization of humans at the time of the industrial revolution.
At that period, society was devoid of feeling and sentiments. People did not feel each other, and no one sympathizes the other neither the employees for the employers, nor other people among the others. Behind the mechanization of the society, Dickens wants to show the
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necessity of fancy and feeling in life, a matter which the English society lacked during the industrial revolution.
Likewise the consequences of the industrial revolution of material prosperity and the necessity of innovation to meet the British social needs paved the way to a scientific thinking by the mid-Victorian era. The mid-Victorian era was an era of doubts about religion …show more content…
In addition, the invention of printing and press played a considerable role in forming and manipulating public opinion.
The “Facts” and “logic” referred to in Hard Times hint to this scientific thinking and those material considerations hint to scientific objectivity. British social ethics and thoughts combined with the period‟s scientific achievements that were evoked by the industrial revolution. Asa Briggs, a British professor of modern history, is right when she says: “the impact of the industrial revolution on the way people lived, thought and felt was greater than that of most political revolutions, and there never was-nor could have been-one single response to it”
(223). This can be justified through these two contradicting opinions of famous English presidents: “People don‟t realize that the Victorian age was simply an interruption in Britain‟s history” (Harold Macmillan), and “Victorian values were the values when our country became
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great” (Margaret Thatcher) (Briggs 266). This means that the Victorian period was a complicated period, which brought good and evil for British society.
Generally speaking, the Victorian period was prominent for its scientific
British people‟s state of being did not know stability from the very beginning of the industrialization to the late Victorian age. The economic and materialistic results of the industrial revolution may be considered, because of its influential impact, as causes, more than consequences themselves, for social and human changes.
The industrial revolution with its materialistic and environmental changes brought about the social, human and mental disruption. The emergence of a new social class caused a new social-class stratification, and then a new social order, when …show more content…
In Hard Times, the factory system does not reveal any importance and respect for the workers. They are treated like heartless and emotionless objects by heartless and emotionless exploiters. Children at Gradgrind‟s school are treated like
„calculating machines‟, programmed for a specific attitude. The two scenes of school and factory lives, under which the society is, reflect the mechanization of humans at the time of the industrial revolution.
At that period, society was devoid of feeling and sentiments. People did not feel each other, and no one sympathizes the other neither the employees for the employers, nor other people among the others. Behind the mechanization of the society, Dickens wants to show the
37
necessity of fancy and feeling in life, a matter which the English society lacked during the industrial revolution.
Likewise the consequences of the industrial revolution of material prosperity and the necessity of innovation to meet the British social needs paved the way to a scientific thinking by the mid-Victorian era. The mid-Victorian era was an era of doubts about religion …show more content…
In addition, the invention of printing and press played a considerable role in forming and manipulating public opinion.
The “Facts” and “logic” referred to in Hard Times hint to this scientific thinking and those material considerations hint to scientific objectivity. British social ethics and thoughts combined with the period‟s scientific achievements that were evoked by the industrial revolution. Asa Briggs, a British professor of modern history, is right when she says: “the impact of the industrial revolution on the way people lived, thought and felt was greater than that of most political revolutions, and there never was-nor could have been-one single response to it”
(223). This can be justified through these two contradicting opinions of famous English presidents: “People don‟t realize that the Victorian age was simply an interruption in Britain‟s history” (Harold Macmillan), and “Victorian values were the values when our country became
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great” (Margaret Thatcher) (Briggs 266). This means that the Victorian period was a complicated period, which brought good and evil for British society.
Generally speaking, the Victorian period was prominent for its scientific