What Are The Flaws Of The Industrial Revolution

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In Hard Times by Charles Dickens, he critiques the lift of the English and their overzealous interest in the Industrial Revolution. Though the lives of his characters, he points out the flaws that comes to families and the environment of England as the Industrial Revolution takes over their lives. First, Dickens’s wanted to point out how the Revolution has changed people from basic humans into machines. A great example of this is Thomas Gradgrind’s son, Thomas Jr. Because of his father’s incessant need for fact, he has forced his son into a machine. “Indeed, Thomas did not look at him, but gave himself up to be taken home like a robot” (19). In this quote, Dickens is calling out the people of the nineteenth century for forgetting how to be