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"Hard Times" is Dickens's masterpiece and one of the more influential novels in the 19th century. Gregorian is a member of Parliament and a so-called "educator". He prides himself on advocating a set of education methods that suppress human nature. The wealthy businessman Bounderby regards himself as a self-made success. They share the same values - utilitarianism as the principle of life, and together they control the economic system and educational institutions of the town. It is precisely based on the "down-to-earth" education method and the "valuing reality" life principle that Gregorian's daughter Louisa was eventually forced to marry Bounderby, who was more than thirty years older than her, while her son Tom became a prodigal son with dissolute behavior; it was also because of the "based on reality" utilitarian life principle that Bounderby even abandoned his biological mother and pretended to be an orphan in order to brag about being self-made, and ultimately ended up being betrayed and separated from his relatives.
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