Kaire Rohusaar11b

1. Time – the middle of the nineteenth century

2. Place – Coketown, a manufacturing town in the south of England.

1. Ananymous – moral authority

2. Narrator speaks in the third person.

3. Tone varies , but is often ironic, mocking and satirical.

4. Narrative speaks in the past tense.

1. Thomas Gradgrind

2. Josiah Bounderby

3. Louisa Bounderby (Gradgrind)

4. Cecilia Jupe (Sissy)

5. Thomas Gradgrind Junior (Tom)

6. Stephen Blackpool

1. Louisa Gradgrind has a hard time understanding her feelings. She is torn between two parts – family and loveless marriage vs her desire to feel the warmth of feeling.

1. Fact vs Fancy

2. Officiousness and spying

3. Honesty

4. The mechanization of human beings

5. The importance of feminity

`What ever is done in the present will have a direct effect on the future.`