hi, i was wondering if anyone has any ideas as to the significance of 'hard times' being the name of the story...what effect do you think it has on the reader both as victorian contemporary readers and modern readers? thank you
hi, i was wondering if anyone has any ideas as to the significance of 'hard times' being the name of the story...what effect do you think it has on the reader both as victorian contemporary readers and modern readers? thank you
The title was originally "Hard times for these times". The significance being excatly as the title says
"its like hitting my head agaist a brick wall" Harry
"with your head the wall would break first" Murphy
Jim butcher dresden files
I thought the title was a little misleading. It made me think that the book was about an economic depression or a strike. I suppose the book is about hard facts, hard economic theories and hard heartedness. Dickens had a list of titles. He gave a friend the list and asked him to choose three, and he picked three himself. Hard Times was the one they both picked.
Last edited by kev67; 11-22-2013 at 05:31 AM.
According to Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence once said that Balzac was 'a gigantic dwarf', and in a sense the same is true of Dickens.
Charles Dickens, by George Orwell
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