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

Both authors Charlotte Bronte and Charles Dickens give fixed attention to the bleak and hard aspects of life and, specifically, to the life of children. In the Chapters 1 & 2 of Hard Times to Chapter 6 of Jane Eyre, they vividly introduce difficulties and hard knocks faced by many poor children at school. Thesis The chapters low analysis are based on interchangeable settings and themes portraying educational system of the Victorian era, attitude towards children and their role in society.In the chapters chthonic analysis, the authors portray school life of the protagonists and their grievances. Fact and Figures dominate in the chapters underlining the role of cramming in education. In Hard Times, in the opening scene in a plain, bare, monotonous vault of a school style, the dominant adjectives are square, hard, dry, and the starting signal paragraph of Chapter 2 emphasizes this theme by using many of the asserting(prenominal) titles which Dickens had contemplated giving to th is novel. T.Gradgrind teaches childrenA man who proceeds upon the principle that deuce 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 strict rules during classes there were sundry questions about tonnage and impounding and ship-money, which most of them appeared unable to answer (Bronte). Another important detail is that girls should skim the Bible every morning which dictated social norms and social order.In the chapters under analysis, the authors create a similar prototypes of teachers and educational systems typical for their times. As the runner 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 authentic monotonous, and in embodying an aridly limited sense of lifes possibilities and priorities. But already one repugn to that Philosophy has appeared the circus at which the Gradgrind children are caught peeping.The same philosophy is followed by fall behind Scatcherd who supposes that a teacher should be severe and irreconcilable to pupils faults. Jane comments it seems disgraceful to be flogged, and to be sent to stand in the middle of a room full of people (Bronte). A ism of Christian endurance is similar in the chapters. Both authors pay a special attention to the go itself and organization of education. They underline 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 new perception of the world. Success for the protagonists means fight in whatsoever direction. To the attainment of any end worth living for, a trigonal sacrifice of their nature is compulsory upon children. Jane comments I could not comprehend this doctrine of endurance and still less could I examine or interpret with the forbearance she express ed for her chastiser (Bronte).Pressure of schooling and severe attitude of their tutors forces the children to produce and understand the role of religion 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 ca handling towards savagery, though the authors relate the novels with such economy and intensity that its predictability does not amaze monotonous. In these chapters, both children assume leadership for their calm rationality.Only a few feeble 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 electric arc in the world of cruelty and misunderstanding. In sum, Charlotte Bronte and Charles Dickens portray that twinge is undergone in order to expand the human spirit, to delve into matters p reviously unplowed hidden, to grow through pain. They grow up into small adults emulating the real world they meet left behind and to which eventually they return.