VOL. 58, BOOK 1, PART B, 2020 Full text (En)
Author: Efstratios Kyriakakis
Affiliation: Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv
Abstract
One major aspect featured in Charles Dickens’ novels that has been of high interest throughout the years is society. It is present in almost everything that Dickens wrote, in the same way that the search for one’s identity has been perceived as part of his works. This coexistence of society and identity in Dickens invites the notion that there must be a connection. In this paper I aim to perform an examination of the role of society in the development of one’s identity in Dickens’ writing – specifically, in his novel Hard Times.
Key words: Dickens, identity, society, childhood, hermeneutics
