Charles Dickens: Hard Times

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Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens should not only be considered as one of the very first and an exceptional non-rural English novelist, but Dickens was also one of the most significant social critic who had made effective use of fiction to analyze social, economic and moral mistreatments of the Victorian age CITATION Phi13 \l 1033 (Collins, 2013). Dickens had contributed to numerous significant reforms of the society. In the novel "Hard Times", individual relationships are being polluted by economics. In this essay, the role of women in the Victorian era is being briefly analyzed and some of the women abuses have also been discussed.
In Hard Times, Charles Dickens follows the Victorian women’s role, where women were regarded as clean and pure. Their role in the society was to own children and to serve their families. Women of that era were being provided with some sort of rights though, but those women still appeared fighting for their autonomy. Hard Times asserts Dickens’ point of view on womanhood, as he analyses and prophesizes the true identity of women. As per Dickens, during the Victorian era; women’s ideology was being viewed as their partner’s property and this thing was also demonstrated in the family life. For example, women were not allowed to manage their personal sexual acts CITATION Mel10 \l 1033 (Vuuren, 2010).
With the help of several women characters in the Hard Times, Charles Dickens has proposed that feminine empathy is extremely necessary to reinstitute social balance. Dickens has also mentioned in the novel that massive amounts of working class females worked in the garment industry, factories or in the laundries and at numerous other positions. Additionally, women must have to perform their responsibilities thoroughly and intelligently; in order to regulate a reputable household and assure the happi...