Thinking Activity- Hard Times

     Thinking Activity

       Hard Times   by      Charles Dickens 

                                                             

                                                       

          This BlogSpot is in response to the Thinking Activity on Hard Times by Charles Dickens Assigned by Barad sir.  This blog is a part of our thinking activity. In this play I share my view of the Hindi  Play Adaptations  of Hard Times. Protagonist of the novel was Louisa Gradgrind and Thomas Gradgrind.

              Hard times was written by a well known writer Charles Dickens. He was a writer , critic and the Greatest Novelist of the Victorian Era. Hard Times generally known as : ‘Hard times : For These Times’.  The novel is a bitter indictment of Industrialization  effects on Workers and Communities in the mid 19th Century in England. The novel was published in 1854. The book surveys English society and satirizes the social and economic conditions of the era.

*Important Characters of The Novel ‘Hard Times’ defines below,

 Thomas Gradgrind - Protagonist

 Louisa  Gradgrind - Important Figure

Tom Gradgrind - Son of  Thomas Gradgrind

 Bounderby- Friend of Thomas Gradgrind

 Mrs. Sparsit - Widow 

 Sissy - Student of Thomas Gradgrind

 Stephen Blackpool- Worker

 Rachael

 Bitzer

 James Harthouse

Review :

              In this Blog I am going to write my review of The Hindi play adaptation of Charles Dickens Novel Hard times. The Hindi Adaptation play was Directed by Kiran Deep Sharma. A whole novel was well Adapted on the stage by Hindi Play.

                                  

                       

            The Hindi play of " Hard Times" Started with a beautiful song. All the Characters came on the stage and they sang a  song together ;

                            “ कमाल की कहानी ये हे तो बड़ी पुरानी जी। "

                

         In this play we can see that  there was a Conversation between two people, Sutradhaar and Nut. and used a dramatic technique. Then Louisa Married with Bounderby because of her Fathers wish. He also taught his students and even his childrens.  Because he lives with his philosophy that life is nothing more than facts and statistics. We can understand that the theme of Marriage and Divorce also connected with the novel and Dickens usen in a satirical way.

Utilitarianism

            Utilitarianism is based on  factuality . It is the assumption that human beings act in a way that highlights their own self-interest. Dickens provides three vivid examples of this utilitarian logic in Hard Times. The first; Mr. Thomas Gradgrind, one of the main characters in the book, was the principal of a school in Coketown.

   Thomas Gradgrind was a firm believer in utilitarianism and instilled this philosophy into the students at the school from a very young age, as well as his own children. Mr. Josiah Bounderby was also a practitioner of utilitarianism but was more interested in the profit that stemmed from it. Utilitarianism such as loves, imagination, and humors.

Thank You. 

 

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