The Theme Of Family In Hard Time's Family

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Hard Time's Family

The novel Hard Time shows a literate history and view of life in the town of Coketown in England During Industry age. The novel concentrate highly on the value of family. The legal familes in Hard TImes were emepty of the feeling of love and the sense of being family members. Families like the industries were machinized during the Vicotrian era.

Family was not more than a factory. In the house of Mr. Grandgrind, stone lodge, every thing was going according to calculations. As the Dickens describes, life at Stone Lodge went monotonously round like a piece of machinery which discouraged human interference,(Dickens, 49). it cant not be false if we say that after life was industrialized and factories could replace
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" Women were assumed to desire marriage because it allowed them to become mothers rather than to pursue sexual or emotional satisfaction,"(Hughes). In the case of Louisa's marriage, when Mr. Grandgrind started the conservation he started in this way, "You have been so well trained, ..., You are not impulsive, you are not romantic, you are accustomed to view everything from the strong dispassionate ground of reasons and calculation, (Dickens, 79). In order to adopt an idea on one's mind is to repeadly reminder who they are and how to behave. Mr. Grandgrind tries to not let Louisa have any other idea except what he taught her, as if he can conrol humane's mind. When he says you are not either romantic nor impulsive, he is excluding anything about love and emotion in this marriage as if he is in a business. In another part of the conservation, when louisa asked her father, "do you think I love Mr Bounderby?, do you ask me to love Mr Bounderby?, does Mr Bounderby ask me to love him?"(Dickens, 80). The father had no answer for these questions because in their index of marriage, there was no name with love, so how can he answer about something which he dosen't believe it. One might say love is produced after marriage, but in this business marriage it was impossible. Mr. Grandgring and Mrs Grand grind lived long together but Mrs Grandgrind died, her husband was not with her, and even the worse , "Mr Gradgrind, apprised of his wife’s decease, made an expedition from London, and buried her in a business-like manner,"(Dickens, 167). In Hard Time, a marriage which canceled love totally did not created any shpere for love and emothion and

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