CHARLES DICKENS

During the Victorian Age, the poor had to live in overcrowded slums where

unsanitary conditions contributed to spreading deadly diseases like smallpox,

cholera and tuberculosis

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In C. Dickens’ Hard Times, Mr Gradgrind stimulates his pupils’ imagination

which he considers good for education, since he believes that education

should be based only on creativity.

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In Oliver Twist, C. Dickens questions the Victorian class-based idea that the poor are naturally good.

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In late Victorian novels, faith in progress starts to increase, characters are portrayed as well-integrated in the world and external reality acquires more importance than their interior world.

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        Dickens wrote several Gothic novels.

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Hard Times is set in London.                                                                                                                                                                                                   

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Oliver Twist is a bildungsroman on the adventures of an orphan

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Dickens attacked the ideas of the philosopher John Stuart Mill.

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   Dickens uses the character of Oliver Twist to challenge which Victorian idea?

•   Children should be seen and not heard.

•  The poor are born criminals.

•   The working class should not mix with the middle classes.

•   The poor should not have access to education.

Gradgrind is one of the characters of Hard Times. Which of the definitions below would you use to describe him?

•  He is strict yet fair.

•  He is easygoing.

•  He is demanding and inflexible.

•  He is forward thinking.