Sussan Rahimi Bagha - Ph.D. English Literature, Lecturer, Tehran, Iran

Hard Times (۱۸۵۴) demonstrates the social separation between rich and poor. The ones who rise slowly usually does not reach much higher than where they started. The wealth could be the opportunities to cover some sorts of social abnormality and odd behaviors. In Hard Times, the existence of the wealthy characters are more than poor ones. Since in that era the world was moving forward to become more machinery under the industrial ۱۹th century and Victorian era. In this novel, and by becoming the rising of technology and machinery, only the high class families are included, meanwhile the low class and poor families usually never get to have the standard level of the facilities. The characters who mostly have concern about class differences are the ones who never feel pain because of differences and the gap between rich and poor. Hard Times contains a great sensation of that era which demonstrates the gap between wealthy people and poor people in the boldest condition.

Hard Times, High class, Low class, Victorian era