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Bounderby and the Industrial Revolution
Title: Bounderby and the Industrial Revolution
Category: Law & Government / Government & Politics
Details: Words: 436 | Pages: 1.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
Bounderby and the Industrial Revolution
Bounderby and the Industrial Revolution
In Hard Times, Charles Dickens portrays Josiah Bounderby as a stereotypical, arrogant, demanding, successful businessman. He represents a powerful down-to-earth attitude, but driven by greed and with no real concept of human nature, but his character isn’t really a good representation of the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. I’m not sure why Dickens characterized him so unjustly because for the most part, he did a good job in …showed first 75 words of 436 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 436 total…and the only reason he was anything was because he made himself something. He “worked” his way through his mother abandoning him, his grandmother being a drunk, and through the harsh streets. In the end his entire identity is unveiled and everyone knows that he was a fraud. But ultimately Bounderby was a bad representation of a good occupation, and although his motivation was clear, his values and attitude left something to be desired.
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