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The performance of critical realism on Hard Times Introduction Charles John Huffam Dickens(1812--1870),one of the greatest representative of English critical realism writers. He was born in a navy office worker family, when he was 10 years old his family was move into the prison because of the debts. So,Dickens did much hard work to raise the whole family when he was only 11 years old. He used be a leather shoes trainee, and then he to be a write member when he was 16 years old, and soon he became a reporter in a newspaper office. In fact Charles did not accepted much high education, but because of his hard learning by himself so he became a learned after many years later and he also got the fame at the same time. In many works of Charles Dickens revealed the idea of criticism, we know that Charles liked to criticize the reality due to his ordeal, the ordeal let he realized the cruel,unconcerned and numb reality,he has the chance to went into the proletariat life and these experiences was his inspirations of his creations.And hard times is one of his critical works about the labour conflicts. I. Hard Times(synopsis) Thomas Gradgrind, a citizen of Coketown, a northern industrial city, is a misguided exponent of Utilitarianism, who believes in facts and statistics and brings up his children Louisa and Tom accordingly. He marries Louisa to Josia Bounderby, a manufactrure 30 years older than Luiosa. Luoisa consents partly from the indifference and cynicism engendered by her fathers treatment, partly from a desire to help her brother, who is employed by Bounderby. James Harthouse, a young politician without heart or principles, taking advantages of her unhappy life with Bounderby, attempts to seduce her. The better side of her nature is awakened at this experience, and she flees for protection to her father, who in turn is awakened to the folly of his system. He shelters her from Bounderby and the couple is permanently separated. But Tom has robbed the bank of his employ