Hard Times and Wider Reading

Hard Times and Wider Reading

1. Fact VS Fantasy

   • "Now, What i want is fact" - Gradgrind
   • "What is your farther?" - Gradgrind (11)
   • "He is a veterinary surgeon, a farrier and a horsebreaker" - Gradgrind (11)
   • "The mind is its ownplace, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven." - John Milton - PARADISE LOST
   • "Sissy is not a name" - Gradgring (10)
   • "Do you ever see horses walking up and down the sides of rooms in reality - in fact? Do you?" (13)
   • "The name of the public house was the Pegasus's arms" (33)
   • "I have such unmanageable thoughts." "That they will wander" (57)
   • "She erected in her mind a might staircase, with a dark pit of shame and ruin at the bottom" (195)

2. Industrialisation

   • "The burnt out ends of smokey days" - T.S.Elliot - PRELUDES
   • "Yellow fo that rubs it's back against the window pain" - T.S.Elliot - LOVESONG OF J ALFRED PRUFROCK
   • "The apparition of these faces in the crowd, petals on a wet black bough" - Ezra Pound
   • "It was a town of machinery and tall chimneys, out of which interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever, and never got uncoiled" (27)
   • "i'm going past factories. Boxes of metal with people inside. Souls being ripped apart" - Ian Ayris
   • "The valley of ashes.. Where the ashes take forms of houses and chimneys" - F.Scott Fitzgerald - THE GREAT GATSBY
   • "We all went in and out at same hours, with the same sound apon the same pavements, to do the same work." (27)
     • "You'll see me any morning in the park" T.S.Elliot - PORTRAIT OF A LADY

3. Place

   • "You hardly know when you are coming back, you will find so much to learn." T.S.Elliot - PORTRAIT OF A LADY
   • "The river glideth at it's own sweet will" - William Wordsworth - COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE
   • "The more that you read, the more things you'll know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go" - Dr Seuss - I CAN READ WITH MY EYE SHUT
   • "For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home" - Stephanie Perkins
   • 'City life is millions of people being lonesome at once' - Hanry David Thoreau

4. Class

   • "Do you think of me, because i am poor, obscure, plain and little. I am soulless and heartless?" - Charlotte Bronte - JANE EYRE
   • "Put your shoes at the door, sleep, prepare for life. The last twist of the knife" - RHAPSODY ON A WINDY NIGHT - T.S.Eliot
   • "Goonight Bill. Goonight Lou. Goonight May. Goonight. Tata Goonight. Goonight." - T.S.Elliot - WASTELAND
   • "Goodnight ladies, ladies, goodnight, sweet ladies, goodnight, goodnight.
   • "Everything was fact between lying in the hospital and the cemetary" (28)

5. Love and Romance

   • "A rose by another name would smell just as sweet" - Shakespeare
   • "As boony as a rose. And what a happy wife!" (151)
   • "I hope every batcholor may find as good a wife as i have found. And i hope every spinster may find as good a husband my wife has found." (107)
   • "Mrs Gradgrind, a little, thin, white, pink-eyed bundle of shawls, of surpassing feeblenes, mental and bodily" (21)
     • "Indeed he hath an excellent good name" - Shakespeare - MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
   • "There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidently, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment" - Sarah Dessen

6. Comedy

   • "All covered in knobs like the crust of a plum pie" (9)
   • "Thath agreed, Thquire. Thtick to that!" (42)
   • "Have you a heart?" (276)
   • "There is no confusion, like the confusion of a simple mind." - SATIRICAL ELEGY

7. Family

   • "I really cannot call her mrs Bounderby it's obsurd." (188)
   • "It was them pills i took, to bring it off, she said." - T.S. Elliot - WASTELAND
   • "Shes had 5 already, and nearly died of young George" - T.S.Elliot - WASTELAND
   • "All happy familes are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in it's own way.
   • "Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young" J.K.Rowling
   • "You are childish. I will hear no more" (20)
   • "The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice"
   • "And he laid her down there, and saw the pride of his heart and the triumph of his system, lying, an insensible heap, at his feet." (212)
   • "I can see nothing behind that childs eyes" - T.S.Elliot

8. Education

   • "Girl number 20" - Gradgrind (13)
   • "Education is not preparation for life, education is life itself" - John Dewey

9. Tragedy

   • "Your father has absconded - deserted you - and you mustn't expect to see him again as long as you live" - Bounderby (42)
   • "Don't let go" - Stephen (263)
   • "Handle them ever so lightly, and they fell to pieces with such ease that you might suspect them having been flawed before" (111)
   • "I was lost and i did not expect to be found again" - Novel 1959
   • "I don't know of what - of everything i think" (20)