The Philosophy of Mrs. Sparsit in Hard Times, a Novel by Charles Dickens (599 words, 2 pages)
Mrs. Sparsit embodies what happens when one wonders, or assumes, too much, an interesting point Dickens crafts to qualify his argument that wondering is necessary to balance out a utilitarian approach to life and education. Her ultimate dismissal from her relatively high-paying job as Bounderbys housekeeper is because of her ...
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