Question
Who had written the novel ‘Hard Times’? What does it describe?
Solution
The novel Hard Times was written Charles Dickens.
(i)The novel Hard Times describes Coketown, a fictitious industrial town, as a grim place full of machinery, smoking chimneys, rivers polluted purple and buildings that all looked the same.
(ii)Here workers are known as ‘hands’, as if they had no identity other than as operators of machines.
