Answer:
(i) Charles Dickens wrote
about the terrible effects of industrialization on people's lives and
characters.
(ii) His
novel 'Hard Times' describes Coketown, a fictitious industrial town, as a grim
place full of machinery, smoking chimneys, rivers polluted purple and buildings
that all looked the same.
(iii)
Here workers are known as 'Hands' as they had no identity other than as
operators of machines.
(iv)
Dickens criticized not just the greed for profits but also the ideas that reduced
human beings into simple instruments of production.
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