scholarly journals The Industrial Revolution Impact on Families as Seen in Hard Times

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Nimer Abuzahra ◽  
Nawras Imraish
Keyword(s):  
Charles Dickens ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Hard Times ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Internal Relationships

<p><em>This paper investigates how the Industrial Revolution affected the life of the British society’s families in the Hard Times novel. Throughout this discussion, the researchers will examine the main dimensions that had its negative influence on changing the situations of the families and the internal relationships among the families’ members till everything was muddled and hard as this novel is titled. In Hard Times, Charles Dickens represents four families of different social framework, Gradgrind’s family, Stephen’s family, Bounderby’s family, and the circus performers’ family. When the researcher explores each one of those families, she finds that the industrial revolution’s impact is really tough, since those families keep suffering throughout the novel due to its cruelty. This revolution is powerful enough to make the relationship among parents and their children, and among husbands and wives cold, uncomfortable, and lacking the usual warm familiar atmosphere.</em></p>

scholarly journals The Relationship Between Job Uncertainty and Job Satisfaction: The Moderating Effect of Charismatic Leadership, Organizational Communication, and Self-Efficacy

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 338
Author(s):  
Wanye Cheng ◽  
Sang Woo Hahm
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Style ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Charismatic Leadership ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
Clear Vision ◽  
New Directions ◽  
The Relationship

With the arrival of the fourth industrial revolution, many things are changing rapidly, including the way that people work.  These changes to the work environment can make workers feel uncertain about their jobs, which in turn can lead to anxiety and complaints about the job, amongst other negative variables. This study explains the factors that can reduce the negative influence of job uncertainty at the organizational, leader-ship, and worker levels. Job uncertainty involves a variety of changes and new directions driven by new technologies and information. Leaders possessed of a charismatic leadership style who are better able to enunciate a clear vision in such dynamic situations, the provision of a variety of useful information related to change within an organization, and workers’ self-efficacy in relation to change will all reduce the effects of job uncertainty. In today’s job environment, a degree of uncertainty is almost unavoidable. Therefore, by reducing the negative impact of this uncertainty, workers can be more satisfied with their jobs and will be able to achieve higher levels of performance.

Irving, John

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurie Champion
Keyword(s):  
Charles Dickens ◽  
Personal History ◽  
The Novel ◽  
John Irving ◽  
Look Back ◽  
The World ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Popular Novel ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Looking Back

A major American writer, John Irving has published many novels, several of which have been adapted for film. His most popular novel is The World According to Garp, which has become both a popular and a cult classic. He is often compared to Charles Dickens, an author he admires. His novels are often political and take liberal views, confronting issues such as abortion rights, LGBT rights, and antiwar sentiments. His characters are not shy about sex and often begin sexual encounters at a young age. Major themes and subjects in his novels include the search for the father, the search for identity, looking back at one’s life, searching for one’s personal history, the difference between memory and truth, and unconventional lifestyles. The settings of his novels vary, and sometimes his characters travel both nationally and internationally. Many of his novels have been adapted for film, and he wrote screenplays for some of them. Irving became a household name in 1978, with the publication of The World According to Garp. Irving is well known for his dark sense of humor and sometimes absurd situations in which he places his characters. Many of his protagonists are older men who look back on their childhoods or adolescents who develop into men over the course of the novel. The relationship between memory and fact is often blurred as one’s memory of events trumps the actual events. Most of Irving’s protagonists are males who do not come from traditional families.

scholarly journals Ten books

2007 ◽  
Vol 191 (6) ◽  
pp. 567-570
Author(s):  
Allan Beveridge
Keyword(s):  
Charles Dickens ◽  
Ethical Reasoning ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Rich Diversity ◽  
The World ◽  
Hard Times ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The Mind

In the novel Hard Times, Charles Dickens gives his views on education. His character Mr Gradgrind believes in ‘facts’ and is suspicious of the imagination. All we need to know about the world, he maintains, can be reduced to simple facts. Dickens shows that such a philosophy leads to the impoverishment of the mind and to the weakening of ethical reasoning. Today it seems that the descendants of Mr Gradgrind are still in charge. The main psychiatric library where I work has been closed. It is argued that we can obtain all the ‘facts’ we need from the internet. The notion that books might have more to offer than prosaic detail, that they reflect the rich diversity of human experience, seems alien to the modern-day Gradgrinds.

scholarly journals Analisis Penggunaan Similes dan Metaphors pada Novel Berjudul “Hard Time” sebagai Tulisan Deskriptif

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lilik Damayanti
Keyword(s):  
Charles Dickens ◽  
Figurative Language ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Direct Speech ◽  
Hard Time ◽  
Hard Times ◽  
Figurative Speech ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

Figurative language is a way to engage readers and deliver them through writing in a more creative form. The two categories of figurative languages that are most widely known are similes and metaphors. The purpose of this study was to analyze the use of similes and metaphors contained in a literary work in the form of a novel entitled "hard times". The method used in this study is descriptive qualitative by describing the results of the analysis in the form of data which has taken from one section or chapter found in the novel by Charles Dickens, which consists of 10 pages. The results of this study are the use of similes is more emphasized on the use of "as" than the use of "like". the use of similes "as" and "like" in the novel are used as a form of figurative speech which is made as a comparison between two objects of various types. Using similes in the novel can give a better sense and convey it to the reader. Whereas for metaphors there are only found five sentences because in this writing use more direct speech or direct quotations to emphasize the function of metaphor to live the story in Novel

scholarly journals La nueva "trama" del héroe

2011 ◽  
pp. 464
Author(s):  
Alex Matas Pons
Keyword(s):  
Charles Dickens ◽  
Urban Geography ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Urban Scene ◽  
Raymond Williams ◽  
The Relationship

Las relaciones entre la literatura y la geografía urbana de una época de rupturas y cambios como la Modernidad son muy complejas. Sin embargo, algunas de ellas sí son rastreables. Una, por ejemplo, es la de unos protagonistas que ya no pueden ponerse al servicio de una aventura general y la de una escena marcada por la inestabilidad que no admite ya los clásicos cronotopos de la frontera y el camino de los que hablara Mijail Bajtin. Es desde entonces que puede hablarse de que la trama de la novela es el propio escenario urbano y el héroe peripatético que deambula por sus calles es el protagonista de aquello que el crítico inglés Raymond Williams llamó refiriéndose a la obra de Charles Dickens «la novela como forma». The relationship between literature and urban geography at a time of changes and breakdowns in modern times are very complex. Hovewer, some of them can be understood. For instance, one of them is about some main protagonist’s in a novel who doesn’t any longer serve the general adventure and a moving unstable scene which doesn’t admit those classic Bakhtin’s chronotopes of the frontiere and the path. Since then, the novel’s plot is the urban scene and the peripatetic hero and his dwellings play the leading role in what the english critic Raymond Williams wrote about Charles Dickens called «the novel as a form».

scholarly journals Religiosity in Charles Dickens’ Novel a Christmas Carol Through Genetic Structural Method

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (6S3) ◽  
pp. 2191-2195
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Charles Dickens ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
World View ◽  
Human Life ◽  
British Society ◽  
Structural Method ◽  
The Novel ◽  
English Society ◽  
City Of London

This study aims to examine comprehensively the meaning and the existence of religiosity in Charles Dickens’ Novel A Christmas Carol. It is a qualitative research using a structural genetic approach. The data were collected from the text of the novel and analyzed through a content analysis. The results of this study are as follows: (1) Autonomous structures of the novel such plot, character, setting and theme have a coherent as a whole and are interconnected to describe the problem of religiosity in the novel A Christmas Carol which indicate transformation of religiosity such as religious belief, religious practices and religious values to improve the quality of human life. (2) Social structure of English Society in Industrial Revolution indicates its significance in describing social context of English society in the novel of A Christmas Carol. Such as, the problem of population density, low labor salaries, the high cost of daily living in the City of London, and the degradation of religiosity in the British Society. (3) The author’s world view indicates the need of change of man’s religiosity through his or her affection of social and religious experience to recover the meaning and the application of religiosity in human life especially in the aspect of solidarity. religiosity based on structural genetics, the autonomous structure of the novel A Christmas Carol, the social structure of British society during the Industrial Revolution, and the worldview of the author has a unified whole to prove that there is a homologous relationship between social reality, especially religions of British society during the Industrial Revolution

The New Century: 1800–1815

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Bainbridge
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Lord Byron ◽  
War Literature ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Felicia Hemans ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Global Power ◽  
Peninsular War ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter examines the relationship between the historical events and the literature of 1800–15. It suggests that these years remain relatively understudied and identifies the important literary landmarks as they appeared to both contemporary and modern observers. It characterizes the period’s writing as ‘war literature’, examining Walter Scott’s status as ‘the “mighty minstrel” of the Antigallican war’ and exploring the rise of Lord Byron and Felicia Hemans within the context of the Peninsular War. The chapter investigates the relationship between literature and national identity following the Acts of Union, looking at the recovery of national literatures, the revival of the epic, and the emergence of the novel as the form best suited to negotiating issues of national identity. It concludes by examining how writers responded to the Industrial Revolution and the development of Great Britain’s global power, one aspect of this being the emergence of literary ‘Orientalism’.

scholarly journals Kesenjangan Sosial dalam Novel Oliver Twist dan Nobody’s Boy: Kajian Intertekstual

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-64
Author(s):  
Ahmad Abdullah Rosyid
Keyword(s):  
Charles Dickens ◽  
Karl Marx ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Social Conflict ◽  
Analysis Data ◽  
Conflict Theory ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Social ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This research uses a novel from two different countries, namely England and France, entitled Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens and Nobody's Boy by Hector Malot. Even though they were written in different countries and periods, both novels seem to be related to one another. This research utilizes the theory of intertextuality as a reference for understanding the relationship between the two novels. The social conflict theory from Karl Marx is also used to support the analysis. The method used is descriptive qualitative data sources from the two selected novels. Data collection techniques are based on things related to social conflict relationships in the novel, data collected in the form of words, phrases, and sentences from dialogue and narration. Then, data validation is done by selecting the most dominant data for intertextual analysis. Data analysis is then done by comparing the two texts as the relationship of hypogram and transformation. The results obtained are a link between the two novels in the form of interrelation between the structure of the story, which includes the background, characters and characterizations, and social conflict in the form of social disparity between the bourgeois and proletarian classes. The text of Nobody's Boy is a transformation from Oliver Twist, which gives a description and emphasis on social inequalities that occur even in years that differ greatly between the two so that from these results, it can be concluded that the two novels have an intertextual relationship in terms of influence.

A Self-Made Man: Hard Times and the Dickensian Impostor

2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
pp. 359-374
Author(s):  
Wieland Schwanebeck
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Charles Dickens ◽  
The United States ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
The Novel ◽  
European Literature ◽  
Cultural Imaginary ◽  
Hard Times ◽  
Character Building

Abstract This essay examines the impostor trope within the works of Charles Dickens, focusing on the example of Josiah Bounderby, the villain of Hard Times (1854), in particular. As a product of the Victorian age’s obsession with character-building and the spirit of industriousness as epitomised in the work of Samuel Smiles, Bounderby not only embodies much of what Dickens found objectionable about utilitarian thought but also a number of tropes that were and remain crucial to the cultural imaginary of the United States (even though Hard Times only briefly alludes to America). As a charismatic rogue who tinkers with his own biography, Bounderby foreshadows the coming of the impostor in turn-of-the-century European literature, an aspect of Hard Times that has so far been overlooked in critical accounts of the novel.

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