Thinking Activity- Hard Time by Charles Dickens.

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Here I am deal with Hard Time written by Charles Dickens. I am particularly describe the main theme of utilitarianism in this novel.

Definition:- 

"The ethical doctrine that the moral worth pf an action is solely determined by its contribution to overall utility, defined as happiness or pleasure".

 Opening line :-

Now, what I want is facts. Teach those boys and girls nothing but facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else and root out everything else.

Whole novel surrounding word by fact, fact and fact. This is important and emotions and imagination not space.

In the novel Hard Times, Charles Dickens connives a theme of utilitarianism, along with education and industrialisation. Utilitarianism is the belief that something is morally right if it helps a majority of people. It is a principle involving nothing but facts and leaves no room for creativity or imagination.

His novel Hard Times demonstrates the invasion of utilitarianism and its economic implications into human relationships and education. Dickens philosophy of utilitarianism based on industrial England, founded by Jeremy Bentham.

Hard Times the centre utilitarian character is Thomas Gradgrind, a school owner and father who forces the children under his mandate to memorize facts, facts, facts...not space of own imagination and emotions. Only logical think important to build of good career.  The children are encouraged to maximize utility through their actions by basing their decisions on selfish. In turn, the children are punished for enjoying artistic entertainment such as storybooks about fairies and watching circus performers with lives dominated by facts and avoid of art. Gradgrind's children ultimately followed the system of fact we are the complexity of justice and emotion.

Gradgrind first meet in Sissy, a girl at his school who is different think character. She belong the circus Performer.sissy is of another world, that of the circus that is governed by art and emotion. Which contrasts with Gradgrind's school and Upper-class home, governed by facts, logic and selfishness. Sissy fails, both at school and at home, to comply with the mathematical rationalization of utilitarianism because she is empathetic, creatively, and emotions.

Like Bentham the school teacher that notion are thriving when they are maximizing utility by achieving pleasure for majority. Whe Sissy Is told by a teacher about questions like a city where only 25 of one million inhabitants were starving. She replied :

" It must be just as hard upon those who were starved".

She is asked by the teacher if a nation with fifty million of money is a prosperous nation. In a response that reflects the concerns of degrowthers with income inequality, she says she couldn't know whether ti is a prosperous or thriving nation, "unless I know who had got the money and whether any of it was mine..but that was not in the figures at all." Here sissy give a Anwer with emotion and creativily but she teacher told u give answer with logically. She not think about a cause for the reason.

Dickens ultimate message is to how the value of imagination, art and human connection in a place dominated by fact and rationality. When last of the scene Tom Gradgrind's children, Louisa and Tom face hardship because they followed their father's utilitarian thinking. It is ultimately sissy who will be the one who pilots change in the imagination of the Gradgrinds. Sissy is a magnetic storyteller, someone who can light the spark in the minds of others that illuminates a new vision of the world. Thay vision might be a fantastic one of fairies and other forest spirits.or of a different, more compassionate future. We see this in sissy undying hope that her father might still come back home to one day. She has faith in a better tomorrow that is based on love, not a material improvement. Finally Grandgrind believed in emotion. This are different elements of the life: live with fact Or important of imagination and emotions in life. Here I am end of my description theme of utilitarianism through Gradgrind.

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