Hard Times

Hard Times Essay #6 - Character compendium: Louisa In the novel Hard Times, Dickens presents a fictional 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 all in all? (11) causing her to base experiences on facts and non 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 sufficient to recognize the need for emotional experiences, Louisa is able to help her father see the wrong doing of his philosophy of facts. It becomes pellucid that Louisa had suffered from her fathers education system when Mr.Gradgrind had presented Louisa with Mr.Bounderby?s proposal of marriage. Upon Louisa?s response, Mr.Gradgrind had inquired whether or not she might have had ano...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay

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