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"Hard Times" by Dickens and the Industrial Revolution

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The Industrial Revolution, which began in the heart of England, led to disorder and confusion for many of the people. The over powering of scientific method encompassed all individual thought. Reason was now used as a way to exclude human capacity for imagination and dreams. Due to the tremendous growth of industry many artisans of this Romantic and Victorian time depicted their feeling in their works and artistry. In Dickens's Hard Times, Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey," and in landscape design was the presentation of their feeling of incorporating nature with this new element. These artists demonstrated through their works that nature was a vital element of human life and must not be forgotten with the eruption of industry.
In the novel Hard Times, Dickens expressed his feeling of contempt for industry and his craving for the incorporation of nature. Dickens rivaled the entire system of industrialization and w...

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