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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelIn Hard Times, Charles Dickens attempts to show how parents' attitudes
influence their children. In this novel, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Gradgrind and also
their son, Tom, try to persuade Louisa to accept the marriage proposal from Mr.
Bounderby. In this study, the thesis writer will analyze the factors that influence the
Gradgrinds' attitudes in persuading Louisa to accept the marriage proposal and
Louisa's factors in accepting the proposal. Besides, the thesis writer will also
discuss the consequences of their attitudes. By using literary approach, which is
characterization and by knowing the condition of the society and also the women and
the young women in the Victorian era, the thesis writer may find out those factors
and the consequences they get. From the analysis, the thesis writer finds out that
money is the biggest factor that influences the Gradgrinds in persuading Louisa, and
as the consequence, because of the absence of pure love, the four people live
unhappily.