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Hard Times, set in 19th century Great britain, explores the moral and social thinking of the time. The rise of self-interest and the climb to the top has forced people to dehumanize themselves, and be more like the machines that run their daily lives. The Gradgrind family discovers all too well the consequences of social status on the soul as the family patriarch masks his own selfish hobbies in charitable donations and funding of schools. He boosts his children, and one used child to be the same manner. One child, Tom, will commit a crime, giving a peasant for taking the land. He must make a decision whether to confess his crimes or run while another child, Louisa, marries a man twice her era at the get of her daddy and the urging of Tom. Louisa has a crisis of conscious when she gets involved in a love triangle she will not easily have the ability to escape. The used child, Sissy, must hold all of them along as their lives start to unfurl plus they learn that money cannot buy everything.
