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Published: November 12, 2006
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paper explores Dickens's support and elaboration on Marx's critiques of Industrial Society,however, it fails to embrace communism. If "Hard Times" is a response to The Communist Manifesto, then Dickens chooses to take a more moderate view than Marx. This paper shows how Dickens's novel basically comes down to a morality tale in which those who are "good" are rewarded, or at the very least martyred, and those who are "bad" face punishment for their deeds.
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