Charles Dickens’ Hard Times: Inhuman Conditions

Charles Dickens’ Hard Times Author’s name Institution’s name Date Charles Dickens’ Hard Times Child abuse was widespread during the Victorian era. In fact, it was synonymous to slavery. Children went through torturous experiences that totally disregarded their quality of life (Malkovich, 2013). Charles Dickens, in his book, “Hard Times” demonstrates, candidly, how children were subjected to inhuman conditions that hindered their capacity to enjoy their childhood and transit into quality adulthoods. The age of industrialization was a major catalyst to the child abuse trend that took place during the Victorian times. Children were turned into machines in the pursuit of the products of industrialization. They were forced to abandon their normal development and suppressed the emotion and imagination they were supposed to grow up with. Their lives were devoid of the normal childhood because their lives became mechanical in the name of industrialization (Mitchell, 2012). Louisa is one character who blames her abused childhood for the reason she continuously felt empty even in her adulthood. She blames her detachment from oth...