Literature is commonly classified as two major forms, as fiction and non-fiction and two major techniques, as poetry and prose. It may consist of texts based on factual information, such as polemical works as well as autobiography and reflective easy as well as bellas-letters. According to historical periods Literature can be classified into genres and political influences. The concept of genres, which was earlier limited, has been broadened over the centuries.
British Literature is literature in the language of English from the United Kingdom, Isles of Man, and Island’s Channel. Anglo-Saxon literature is included, and there is some discussion of Anglo-Norman and Latin literature, where literatures in these languages relate to the early development
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A central tenet is that the means of production is the economic base that influences or determiners the political life. Under the theory of Marxism, outdated class structure were supposed to be overthrown with the force revolution instead of being replaced through patient modification. It is held that as Capitalism has succeeded feudalism, it will be deleted by a dictator of his workers proletariat called socialism, followed quickly and inevitably by a classes society which governs itself without a governing class or …show more content…
The expression “Hard Times” generally means a period of slump or depression when food is scanty, when wages are low, and when unemployment is widespread. However, Dickens has not used this phrase in that sense. What Dickens means by this phrase is a general state of affairs in which the lives of people are inhibited or restricted and in which people are prevented from giving a free and spontaneous outlet to their natural feelings and sentiments. The phrase implies a kind of bondage to routine and calculation which result from mechanisation and industrialism.
THE OTHER SOCIAL PURPOSE
The second social purpose of Hard Times is more difficult to define. It seems to be concerned with a radical criticism of the very structure of society. Dickens is opposed to the oppression of the poor and of the workers by the rich. But this attitude is partly obscured by his wish to attack, simultaneously, a particular school of economic thinkers, so that his conclusions in that direction remain indistinct. Besides, other elements interfere with the clarity and pungency with which social ideas are expressed in this novel.
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