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lenny9987 's review for:
Hard Times
by Charles Dickens
Praise for the work of Charles Dickens is hardly groundbreaking, new, or unexpected. But there is a reason for this and it is written clearly on every page of any of his books, even the ones that aren’t as commonly read in high schools across the country. There is a level of realism in all his works that helps create a believable balance, even in subject and time specific satires like Hard Times.
The Industrial Revolution changed the way people thought about how the world works and that translated to an educational machine that focused on the facts at hand and the ways they could be put to use to produce more efficiently functioning systems. In Hard Times, Charles Dickens takes this idea of a fact-focused education to an extreme, using it to demonstrate the necessity of imagination and the tragedy of a lacking that sustaining creative force.
For the complete review, visit my blog:
http://nightmaresdaydreamsandimaginedconversations.wordpress.com/2011/01/09/book-review-hard-times-by-charles-dickens/
The Industrial Revolution changed the way people thought about how the world works and that translated to an educational machine that focused on the facts at hand and the ways they could be put to use to produce more efficiently functioning systems. In Hard Times, Charles Dickens takes this idea of a fact-focused education to an extreme, using it to demonstrate the necessity of imagination and the tragedy of a lacking that sustaining creative force.
For the complete review, visit my blog:
http://nightmaresdaydreamsandimaginedconversations.wordpress.com/2011/01/09/book-review-hard-times-by-charles-dickens/