Hard Times in hard time

王文杰

    I heard about Hard Times for a long time. but I didn't know about its contents until this term.Which made me decide to read this book is its opening“Now, what I want is. FACTS......” Thesentences are not too difficult to read so I have the interest to continue reading it.
    The more chapters I read, the much understanding I have that behind the straightway language wasthe serious and deeply consideration. The author Dickens described the bourgeoisie vividly andsatirized the utilitarianism very powerfully, In these people's philosophy, everything wassecondary to benefits. This philosophy was not only honored as the life principles by the heroesGrandgrind and Bounderby, but also stuffed in the brains of chirldren.
I am very sympathy to these poor children. They were forced to accept the “facts”,and their  imagenation was killed. Even watching the circus was considered as the bad behavior.Nothing is useful unless it can produce substantive benefits”, such thought was popular atthat age, however, in my opnion, it still exists broadly in our society today. Many kids are sentto learn varies of interests-orinted classes: Mathematical Olympiad, piano. singing, dancing. andso on.Most Parents do this because they want their children to succeed in entering a betterschoo1.while they care little about the true intersests of children. This utilitarian educationis also found in school. When I was a primary student, my classmates were treated differently byteachers because of their different marks. It is obviously harm for children' s growing.
    Also adults have the utilitarian thoughts. We are becoming more and more frickle.In 1980s, manyyoungsters were keen on writing poem. They wrote poems just for pleasant. But today few peopleread and write poems for they think that it can not bring benefits for them. The phenomenonshould arouse our attention.Hard Times is a great novel because its influence was beyond the counties and times. I am benefit a lot from it.