Hard Times Quotes Flashcards
Direct quotes from the text
Gradgrind’s obsession with facts?
‘Facts alone are wanted in life’
His voice was ‘inflexible, dry, and dictatorial’
Bounderby’s view of Louisa?
‘Always my pet; ain’t you, Louisa?’
Description of Coketown?
‘It was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage’
The smoke of Coketown?
‘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’
The working atmosphere of Coketown?
‘You saw nothing on Coketown but what was severely workful’
The similarity of all the public institutions?
‘The jail might have been the infirmary, the infirmary might have been the jail’
The town is very industrial?
‘Nature was as strongly bricked out as killing airs and gases were bricked in’
Description of Stephen’s wife?
‘A disabled, drunken creature’
Quotes from the union meeting?
‘down-trodden operatives of Coketown!’
‘the slaves of an iron handed and a grinding despotism!’
Bosses described as ‘oppressors’
‘densely crowded and suffocating close Hall’
The union’s reaction to Stephen?
‘Thus easily did Stephen Blackpool fall into the loneliest of lives, the life of a solitude among familiar crowds’
How Bounderby views the workers?
‘pests of the earth’
What the workers are called?
‘Hands’
What is the title of chapter 2?
‘Murdering the Innocents’
Bounderby’s criticism of imagination?
‘idle imagination’ is ‘a very bad thing for anybody’
How Gradgrind describes his children’s upbringing?
‘minds that have been practically formed by rule and line’
Gradgrind’s turn around?
‘making his facts and figures subservient to Faith, Hope, and Charity’
