Question

The description of 'Coketown' occurs in:

• A. Hard Times
• B. Bleak House
• C. Sons and Lovers
• D. Dubliners

Answer 1

Answer:

A. Hard Times

Coketown is a fictional industrial city that represents the grim realities of 19th-century industrial England. In Hard Times, Dickens uses Coketown to criticize:

• Industrialization

• Mechanization of human life

• Poor working and living conditions

• Utilitarian education and philosophy

He paints it as a place full of "interminable serpents of smoke" and buildings all made of "red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it."