Indeed, Mr. Gradgrind is a firm and adamant proponent of Utilitarianism a philosophical doctrine that expresses that the highest ideal is utility and that all actions aim to the accomplishment of such ideal. Notions like beauty, leisure and other abstract concepts are not considered “useful”, they lack utility and thus are considered as a waste of time.

Dickens used this character as a representative of the way Industrial, Victorian England broke or ground the souls of people and in this particular case, children.

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3 years ago

Write a sonnet poem about the ocean

alex41 [277]

Here's one that may work for you

Explanation:

Shining white foam in the blazing sun

I wondered over all day

and it came crashing by anon

until I went my way.

And it does the same when I am not around

The ocean won't stand still

The sands never could throw abound

Ocean's soft seeping shrills.

But trapped in seashells take away

the remnants of this water too

We are here to hold the sway

over what nature can do

In seashells i took home i only found

the sounds but not the soul of ocean bound.

<u>This follows the rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg</u>

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3 years ago