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Essay Archive - Hard Times: Struggle of Fact vs Imagination and Struggle Between Two Classes
Hard Times: Struggle of Fact vs Imagination and Struggle Between Two Classes
Charles Dickens' novel, Hard Times, is a story of two struggles--the
struggle of fact versus imagination and the struggle between two classes. It
takes place in Coketown, and industrial-age English city. The novel is divided
into two sections. One deals with the struggle of upper class members of
society and their struggle to learn the value of imagination. The other
involves a working class man who is trapped by those in that upper class who
trap him in a dreary existence.
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