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Charles DickensHard Times
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1854A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
Essay Topics
In the opening lines of Hard Times, Gradgrind teaches children about the importance of facts. How does his personal philosophy dictate the course of the narrative?
Tom and Louisa grow up in the same house but develop two very different characters. At what point and in what ways do their characters diverge?
Sissy is the antithesis of everything Gradgrind believes, yet she emerges as a singularly happy individual. In what ways is her existence a rebuke of his beliefs?
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