Analyzation of Hard Times by Charles Dickens

HARD TIMES by Charles Dickens displays the concerns of a literary age effectively and effortlessly. The socialist ideologies of the time call for the workers and "lower orders" to unite, revolt, and overtake the oppressors. Dickens' story, especially this excerpt, seems to downplay the power that the oppressed really have. It makes fun of the Rationalist obsession with facts and logical reasoning. It shows the dirty side of industrial revolution and progress, and tries to downplay the awful, cold world that the working class is forced to accept. We learn of the large gaps between the proletariats and the bourgeoisie. And yet it moves on to know that here are these two men trying to cope with the hard times.