Literary Analysis of the Hard Time: By Charles Dickens

Literary Analysis of the Hard Time: By Charles Dickens
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In this book, Charles Dickens is talking about Thomas GrandGrind, a schoolteacher. He considers Grandgrind as a man full of realities and facts as well as a man who is comical in nature. He is presenting GrandGrind as a man with his own principles and who cannot be easily influenced by another or circumstances without proof. Mr. Thomas GrandGrind who mainly teaches mathematics is depicted as always being in possession of a multiplication table, a pair of scales and a rule for his work. The author affirms that GrandGrind is a man who cannot belief anything unless it is backed by mathematics facts! This is the reasons why he carries along mathematical instruments. In portraying this character, Dickens is espousing one among his teaching scenes to show this notion in him.
According to the author, this teacher normally introduces himself to his acquaintances, the public, and his class as Thomas GrandGrind Sir. He is a man who focuses himself in instilling realities and facts to his audience. From the way he spoke and taught his audience, Dickens explains that GrandGrind would appear as a man endowed with wisdom on life’s realities and facts which he was eager to pour out once he had an opportunity.
In Portraying his comical nature, Dickens is drawing one incidence in his lesson where GrandGrind inquires about the identity of a new student in his class. When the student, a lady, informs him that her name is Sissy Jupe, he quickly rejects the name arguing that Sissy cannot be a typical name and instead requests her to say her full name, Cecilia. When the girl insists that even his father calls he...