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Charles Dickens' Hard Times - School Essays

Charles Dickens' Hard Times

In the novel Hard Times by Charles Dickens, Stephen Blackpool’s life and death were symbolic. Stephen was a forty year old man that looked older, who worked for a man named Bounderby as a power-loom weaver. His life was filled with the troubles that a lower-class person must withstand. His name, Blackpool, was symbolic of his life. He lived a life in a “Blackpool”, meaning he was looked down upon by most of his associates. He was even looked down upon by his own working class. At the Bounderby factory, Stephen did not like the way Bounderby abused him and the other workers. He wanted to do something about it so he did not join the union and had a talk with Bounderby about the working ...

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started by Stephen’s co-workers, accept him even more. She was nothing like when they first married. She was now a drunk whom he did not care for anymore. The woman he did care for, Rachael, was the women he wished to marry now.
Rachael, who, “showed a quiet oval face, dark and rather delicate, irradiated by a pair of very gentle eyes”, was Stephen’s dream. he wished to marry her and she wished to marry him but two problems stood in the way. In order to marry Rachael he had to divorce his wife. Stephen went to Bounderby to ask for help on getting a divorce. Bounderby looked at Stephen not truly as a person but as a “hand”. Bounderby repeated that Stephen married his wife “for better or worse”, and now that she is worse he does not want to accept it. He also told him that the only way to get the divorce was going to cost him, far more than he made. Bounderby’s advice did not help Stephen but helped him sink further into his “blackpool”.
Besides money, the government was ...

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Added: 2/24/2004 11:40:40 AM
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