In Hard Times, Charles Dickens focuses on the rise of women and men over time during this period. One thing I learned in the past was that women were said to be pretty much “housewives” their duties were at home and to do the motherly and wife duties, the normal stereotypes in the past. Charles Dickens goes along with the time he was writing and gives the women a bit of a higher position on the spectrum. I would say that Dickens aims for a better perspective on women by portraying them to be able to have opinions of things, giving them more freedom of what they do and what they believe. Dickens makes sure to incorporate both woman from Queen Victoria’s time and also how femininity in the Victorian era was to show a contrast between them. His goal is to make it obvious to people that femininity is important in the social part of our lives. Louisa is a prime example of a …show more content…
Sissy is the perfect image of what the Victorian woman should be because she is imaginative and actually has feelings and doesn’t live her life on just the facts. Sissy is also able to go out and live her life on her own and not worry about having to rely on somebody else to get her to where she wants to be in life, which shows that she is independent. Although she is outgoing and different, she still has the same manners as the others. Sissy tends to let her compassionate side out with her habit of constantly blushing and curtseying. Because of how she was, Mr. Gradgrind began to become unhappy about it and starts to remind her about the importance of just facts and tells her she needs to shut her mind to the fancy and realize this. But because of how Sissy is and with her emotions and all, she does not confine with this and does not join in with his way of