Compare Ch 1 & 2 of Hard Times to Ch 6 of Jane Eyre

Both authors Charlotte Bronte and Charles Dickens give contumacious attention to the bleak and hard aspects of manner and, specifically, to the life of children. In the Chapters 1 & adenine 2 of Hard Times to Chapter 6 of Jane Eyre, they vividly show difficulties and hardship face by m either poor children at school. Thesis The chapters under analysis ar ground on similar settings and nucleotides word-painting trainingal system of the Victorian era, bearing towards children and their role in society.In the chapters under analysis, the authors portray school life of the protagonists and their grievances. Fact and Figures run in the chapters underlining the role of cramming in education. In Hard Times, in the opening moving picture in a plain, bargon, monotonous miss of a school way of life, the dominant adjectives are square, hard, teetotal, and the first paragraph of Chapter 2 emphasizes this theme by using many of the asserting(prenominal) titles which Dickens had co ntemplated giving to this novel. T.Gradgrind teaches childrenA man who proceeds upon the principle that devil and two are four, and nothing over, and who is not to be talked into allowing for anything over (Dickens). In Jane Eyre, girls follow fastidious rules during classes there were sundry questions about tonnage duty and poundage and ship-money, which most of them appeared unable to dish out (Bronte). Another important detail is that girls should see the Bible every morning which inflict social norms and social order.In the chapters under analysis, the authors reach a similar prototypes of instructors and educational systems usual for their times. As the first passage makes clear, the Gradgrind educational system and the ethos of the industrial town are at one in being designedly quite rightly if The Gradgrind Philosophy is accept monotonous, and in embodying an aridly limited sense of lifes possibilities and priorities. only if already one challenge to that Philoso phy has appeared the fair at which the Gradgrind children are caught peeping.The same philosophy is followed by Miss Scatcherd who supposes that a teacher should be severe and irreconcilable to pupils faults. Jane comments it seems immoral to be flogged, and to be sent to single-foot in the middle of a room full of people (Bronte). A ism of Christian endurance is similar in the chapters. Both authors pay a circumscribed attention to the process itself and organization of education. They accentuate that educational process should be based on daily activities and planning process.The chapters though starting in a classroom are concerned with more than education but growing up and innovative perception of the solid ground. Success for the protagonists means get by in whatever direction. To the attainment of any end worth living for, a symmetrical sacrifice of their nature is compulsory upon children. Jane comments I could not comprehend this doctrine of endurance and still le ss could I understand or sympathize with the mildness she expressed for her chastiser (Bronte).Pressure of schooling and severe office of their tutors forces the children to right and understand the role of devotion and schooling in their life. The children speak as mature adults which unveils their independent thinking and mature personalities. Readers quickly sense the inevitability of the childrens performance towards savagery, though the authors relate the novels with such deliverance and intensity that its predictability does not become monotonous. In these chapters, twain children assume leadership for their steady rationality.Only a few gimpy stragglers said Yes among them Sissy Jupe (Dickens). In the chapters, both authors use characters of children in opposition to the main characters. This technique helps them to underline the importance of button in the world of cruelty and misunderstanding. In sum, Charlotte Bronte and Charles Dickens portray that suffering is undergone in order to expand the human spirit, to stab into matters previously kept hidden, to grow by means of pain. They grow up into small adults emulating the real world they have left behind and to which ultimately they return.