‘Otherness’ and the Fact and Fancy Dichotomy in Charles Dickens’ Hard Times
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Summary“Otherness” describes a person engaging in the reflexive act of defining their identity in reference to another person. In this way, Otherness is a definitive means of exploring the relationships between social castes and gender relationships. In Hard Times, these two types of Otherness – social and gender relations – not only exist, but appear in a hybridized and utterly complex way character of Charles Dickens’ work.
Keywords: Tamise Van Pelt, Gradgrind, Louisa
Keywords: Tamise Van Pelt, Gradgrind, Louisa
Table of Contents- For the purposes of analyzing Hard Times, I will use the term 'Other' as described by Tamise Van Pelt.
- The environment that produces Louisa is shown to be one of calculated reason early in the text.
- Louisa's initial interactions with Bounderby in Hard Times are marked by coldness.
- Stephen Blackpool shares the same self-destructive fate in his own loveless marriage.
- In Hard Times, Charles Dickens presents a text that exemplifies Tamise Van Pelt's representation of the 'Other,?.
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