CHARLES DICKENS' HARD TIMES AND GREAT EXPECTATIONS AS VICTORIAN NOVELS

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  • Hameed Abdulameer Hameed Alkhafaji , Manaar kamil saeed

Abstract

 In Hard Times  and Great Expectations , Dickens  presents an imminent approach  into the Victorian world. Both novels considered a representative of Victorian novels because all the elements of this age is applied by Dickens. He presents the function of a publicobserver, condemns the industrialization of England and  showsamongst the mainlycriticalproblems of the time the computerization of humans ,collectivevariation, destruction of fancy as a result of  modernization , and the unfairsituation of women.Through HardTimes ,He  shows a momentcovered with progression and modify in every portion of existence and depicts  the negative aspects of such a affluentage. The imaginarytown of Coke town is symbolized as anechowhich reflects nineteenth century England. Dueto modernization and industrial unitsalleventually becomes automatic.  Mind takes over the feeling, as a consequencedevastating all that is innate, parting its fatalitiesunfilledwithin. Dickens’s Coketown populations recognize of naught more than employment and their worldview is stoodmerely on truth. Surrounded by an enthusiasticmanufacturingcivilization, wealth is the author, which outcomes in all subjects of existencerotatingjust about it. entrepreneurship is a double-edged weapon for it mutually develops and wrecksculture. specifically this cognition is essential in Hard Times, where Dickens, by means of contrasting hishigher and workrank figuresreveals its weakness. He determines to put anend to the destruction of fancy and encourages his followers to grasp on to their humankind. The novel’s significance is a caution, for if we pursue only after the acquisitive in life, and let it to repress our delight and thoughts, in the end, we are no better than the manufacturing means, just a cluster of machinery.(Johnson, 2010,33.)

Dickens’ Great Expectations is a point in timedominant masterwork of Charles Dickens. In this work of fiction, he contacts on prospect in the days of varied figures, the  majority of which being the prospect of Pip, the hero of the novel. An awesomeamount of prospects are at effort at a variety of levels of the story of Great Expectations. throughout these expectations, running in the minds of different characters and the accessible picture of the Victorian society duringDickens arebrilliantly portrayed. As for method, analyzing both the most important and inferior sources of information the researchers have tried to discover—how do the great prospect of some figuressymbolize the modern Victorian English civilization? This article concentratesparticularly on how the narrative revealswith aprocedure of grown-up   and self-discovery throughoutknowledge as its personal figure Pip shifts from infancy to maturity.(Johnson, 2010,34.)

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Published

2020-09-25

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Hameed Abdulameer Hameed Alkhafaji , Manaar kamil saeed. (2020). CHARLES DICKENS’ HARD TIMES AND GREAT EXPECTATIONS AS VICTORIAN NOVELS . PalArch’s Journal of Archaeology of Egypt / Egyptology, 17(6), 15145-15159. Retrieved from https://archives.palarch.nl/index.php/jae/article/view/5952