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1、ReadingReportofHardTimesBookInformationThebookHardTimesIreadwaspublishedbyForeignLanguageTeachingandResearchandpressedin1994,itsauthorisfamousEnglishnovelistCharlesDickens,what’smore,thisbookcontains480pages.StoryandMyReflectionThenovelwassetinCoketown,anorthernind
2、ustrialcity.ThomasGradgrindruledhisfamilyandhisschoolaccordingtoUtilitarianism,thephilosophyofthetime,whichhadasitsaimthegreatestpossiblehappinessforthegreatestpossiblenumberofpeople.However,theformofUtilitarianismwhichDickensattackedinthenovelwasplainmaterialismth
3、atdeniesallothervaluesthanmaterialones,or“Facts”astheywerecalled.ThomasGradgrindhadtwochildrenLouisaandTom.TheywerecaughtbytheirfatherwhentheytriedtoseeSleary’sCircus,wheretheclownJupeworks.JupehadadaughterSissy,andwhenJupeleftthecircusandhisdaughter,Gradgrindinvit
4、edhertocomeandlivewithhisfamily.JosiahBounderbywastherichowneroftheCoketownfactories.Hewasaproudself-mademan;butonceandagainhishousewasobservedbyastrangeoldwoman.StephenBlackpoolwasoneofBounderby’sworkers.Blackpoolhadatroubledlife.Hehadanalcoholicwife,whohadlefthim
5、,buthecannotbedivorcedfromher.HewasinlovewithRachel,afactorygirl.WhenastrikebrokeoutandBlackpoolwasnotwillingtojointhetradeunionhismateswouldnothaveanythingtodowithhim.Hewasfired,andhehadtoleavetown.TomGradgrindstartedtoworkinBounderby’sbank,andBounderbyproposedtoL
6、ouisa.Thoughshewas30yearsyoungerthanhim,sheaccepted.Bounderby’shousekeeperMrs.Sparsitwasjealous.Louisa’smarriagewasunhappy,andJamesHarthouse,apolitician,attemptedtoseduceher.Bounderby’sbankwasrobbedbyTom.However,itwasStevenBlackpoolwhowassuspected,andBitzer,aclerki
7、nthebankgaveevidenceagainsthim.Mrs.SparsithaddiscoveredtherelationshipbetweenHarthouseandLouisaandspieduponthem.LouisaturnedHarthousedown,andshewenthometoherfathertotalktohimaboutherproblems.Hecameneartorealizingthathisupbringingofhischildrenbasedon“Facts”hadbeenam
8、isunderstanding.GradgrindnowshelteredLouisafromBounderby,andthecouplewerepermanentlyseparated.StephenBlackpoolwasfounddyinginadisusedmineshaft.He
