Chapter 4-7 Flashcards
How is Mr. Bounderby described?
as a Bully of Humility
Who is Mr Boundary (3)
banker, merchant and manufacturer
What does Mr Bounderby brag about?
that he is a “self-made man”
Who is described as someone “perfectly devoid of sentiment”?
Mr Bounderby
What is significant about the fact that Mr Bounderby is an imposing figure with an entire oversized body?
as he is presented as the typical ‘black cat’ of capitalism
Mr Bounderby is a man of social mobility and ever expanding boundaries, but what does Dicken’s social commentary suggest about Boundary?
that he is hypocritical
How does Dickens’ social commentary suggest that Mr Bounderby is hypocritical?
as while he complained of having to crawl out of poverty and excusing himself for not having a “refined growing up,” he is the firmest advocate of Sissy Jupe’s removal from the school
What can be said about the way “Mr Bounderby sescribes that he was “born in a ditch As wet as a sop?”
despite his lack of proper eduction his lines are a paraphrase of a very famous line from Shakespears Macbeth Act 1
What kind of laugh is Mr Bounderby described with?
a “metallic laugh”
How is the smoke in Coketown described?
as a town blackened by “serpent-like” smoke
What can be said about the fact that even the water is polluted by “ill-smelling dye”?
even the water which is essential for human sustenance is contaminated by the industrialisation of Coketown. The “Hands” are thus reduced to drinking manufactured water and stripped of their freedom to the natural elements of water and air.
How doe Mr Bounderby and gargling consider the town residents?
to be a “bad lot” who are ungratful, demanding and excessive in taste and diet
What can be said about how Dickens desrcibes the town as blackened by “serpent like” smoke?
they are another symbol of sin and immorality which contributes to the overriding archetype of hell.
With Dickens’ legal background we might suggest hat he is presenting the case for the people of Coketown, left without adequate legal or popular counsel. Here, a Latin term would be the most precise way to describe Dickens’ moralising tone in this short chapter (6)?
amicus curiae
What is Sleary’s performing group called?
Pegasus’ Arms
How is Mr.Sleary one of Dicken’s caricatures?
his loose eye and his lisp make him appear as ridiculous as circus performer might be expected to be.
Why does Mr.Bounderby relish in the arrangement he has with his housekeeper Mrs.Sparsit?
as she was once a “highly connected” lady who has fallen on “hard times”
Mr Gradgrinds name evokes the monotonous grind of his children lives as well as the grinding of what?
the factory machines
How in chapter 5 does Dickens compare the children to factory workers?
he explains that both the children and workers “have Fancy in them demanding to be brought into healthy existence”
How does the narrator in chapter 5 draw our attention to the need for wonder and imagination?
when he compares the Gradgrind children to factory worker; explaining that both “have Fancy in them demanding to be brought into healthy existence”
What is the name of Chapter 5?
“The Key-note”
What is the meaning of Chpater 5 being named “the Key-note”?
we can conclude that the conflict between fact and fancy is the key note, or theme, that the narrator will continue to bring up throughout the novel
What are the circus entertainers able to do?
to transform the colourless world into a place of magic and excitement
Just like Mr.Gradgrind, Mr Bounderby is a man who is what?
“perfectly devoid of sentiment”
