The correct answer is Rigid and narrow-minded.
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.
When hearing toward that it’s basically defined us towards our own way of our beauty and meaning of it
The Odyssey, an epic, was written by Homer, a renowned Greek epic poet. The prequel to this book is The Iliad and leads off with the end of the Siege of Troy and the disappearance of Odysseus. The Odyssey is set in a time ten years since the fall of Troy in the kingdom of Ithaca, a dark time where the missing hero Odysseus is still nowhere to be seen. Told in the perspective of his beloved son, the plot outlines the search for Odysseus.
