Dickens's object of social
criticism in this excerpt from Hard Times is that a system of education that
treats children like machines. The answer is letter A. It is shown in the novel
that the teachers only taught students regarding on the works of the society
but did not focus on the emotional context. The only thing that the teachers
care about are the results of the input that they gave. If this is not
corrected, then the students will bring it to the society. That is why, there
is a large gap between the rich and the poor. The rich believes that the poor
can make it if they strive harder. What makes it harder is that the poor has to
undergone so many things, pain and hardships in other to get to the top and
some of them could not even reach there. This is what is wrong in the society.
I'd say it emphasizes the dreariness of life.
Past tense, meaning it has happened in the past.
