With Detailed References to two Conversations or Incidents from 'Hard Times' Examine how Effectively Dickens Presents the Character of 'Louisa' in his novel.

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Aaron Scott 10a

With Detailed References to two Conversations or Incidents from ‘Hard Times’ Examine how Effectively Dickens Presents the Character of ‘Louisa’ in his novel.

     In the novel ‘Hard Times’ Louisa is represented as a mechanical child brought up in her fathers model school. She doesn’t show many feelings and only shows love for her brother I am going to show this by using reference from to conversations in the book.

     The first conversation I am going to use is the one between Louisa and her father over the proposal of marriage from Mr. Bounderby. In this conversation she keeps cool and doesn’t show any emotions for Mr. Bounderby and asks her father if he is asking her to love Mr. Bounderby ‘do you ask me too love Mr. Bounderby’ the reason I think that she asks this question is because I don’t think she can love because she was brought up in the model school and it was all about fact and not fancy. And also because she doesn’t like Mr. Bounderby and only seems him as a friend of his fathers and a businessman. I think that she agrees to marry Mr. Bounderby because she does it for her brother because Tom wants a job at his bank and will go a long way in the bank if she is married to Mr. Bounderby. Mr. Gradgrind when he tells Louisa about the proposal of marriage he tries to make it into just another fact for her to tackle ‘ I would advise you to consider this question, as one of tangible fact’ he says this because he thinks she will be able to cope with it if she thinks as it as just another bit of fact like the work at hid model school. At no point in the conversation does Mr. Gradgrind ask Louisa about her feeling for Mr. Bounderby I think this is because he knows that she doesn’t have any feelings because none of the children do that go to the model school. In

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her reply to her father about the proposal of marriage she speaks in fact to her father and shows no emotions she says, ‘Mr.

Bounderby asks me too marry him. The question I have to ask my self is, shall I marry him? That is so, father is it not? You have told me so father, have you not?’ there is no change in tone of her voice just a low tone and speaking in hard facts like she has been taught. After she accepts the proposal she says to her dad that she accepted the ...

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