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Hard Times 3 - College Essay

Hard Times 3

Essay #6 - Character Analysis: Louisa In the novel Hard Times, Dickens presents a character by the name of Louisa Gradgrind Bounderby who had suffered from her father’s education system. Mr.Gradgrind’s philosophy forced Louisa to “discard the word fancy altogether” (11) causing her to base experiences on facts and not from emotions. Throughout the novel, Louisa realizes that she does not have any emotional experiences to guide her. This is apparent when she had been presented with a proposal for marriage, and on her journey to visit her ill mother. By Louisa being able to recognize the need for emotional experiences, Louisa is able to help her father see the wrong ...

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her own emotions : “Father...what other proposal can have been made to me? Whom have I seen? Where have I been? What are my hearts experiences” (79). Louisa continues on explaining that he should have known better than to ask such a question, considering she has never been able to question or wonder past his school of facts : “Why father...what a strange question to ask me....You have been so careful of me, that I never had a child’s heart. You have trained me so well, that I never dreamed a child’s dream. You have dealt so wisely with me, father, from my cradle to this hour, that I never had a child’s belief or a child’s fear.”(79). This is significant because this is the first time which Louisa attempts to tell her father that she has no emotional experiences because her life has been based on his philosophy of facts. Unfortunately, her father misinterprets her message, and feels that her response is merle one of gratitude. Louisa ...

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Added: 12/17/2005 11:52:37 AM
Category: English
Type: Free Paper
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