Charles Dickens's Hard Times is a novel divided into three books. These books
are titled "Sowing," "Reaping," and "Garnering." Explain how the first book's
title relates to the events, characters, and themes that Dickens addresses in it,
and analyze how the novel's first book conveys Dickens's central message
about rationality and logic in mid-nineteenth-century England.

Sowing is the title of the first book of Hard Times because personalities are being shaped or planted by the schools and institutions and parenting practices embodied in characters like Gradgrind. This is a reflection of the mechanistic logic and cold rationality of the industrial age in nineteenth-century England.

Explanation:

The first book's title sowing relates to the events, characters, and themes in the sense that Dickens was concerned with the miserable lives of the poor and working classes in the England of his day. He called this first book of the Hard Times novel "Sowing" because he is introducing the characters and it is like their personalities are being planted by all the institutions that are part of industrialization. Dickens thinks that industrialization is harmful to the minds and morality of the working classes because humans are turned into machines and they are schooled to suppress the development of their emotions and imagination.

The novel's first book conveys Dicken's central message about rationality in the Gradgrind character. Gradgrind believes that people should only act in their own interests through rational principles that are devoid of feeling and sentiment. For Dickens, this can lead to indifference to human suffering. This new logic or rationality comes about because of the mechanization of industrialization that reduces our human nature to productivity, wealth and greed at the expense of feelings, creativity, and freedom.  

i agree so i wont repert this question

answer:   a good wench, give it me.

iago

good girl, give it to me.

emilia

what will you do with ’t, that you have been so earnest

325to have me filch it?

emilia

and what are you going to do with it? why did you want it so much that you begged me to steal it?

iago

  why, what is that to you?

iago

what’s it to you?

emilia

if it be not for some purpose of import,

give ’t me again. poor lady, she’ll run mad

when she shall lack it.

emilia

if you don’t need it for some important reason, then give it back to me. poor lady, she’ll go crazy when she sees it’s missing.

iago

be not acknown on ’t,

330i have use for it. go, leave me.

iago

don’t admit to knowing anything about it. i need it. now go, leave me.

exit emilia

emilia exits.

i will in cassio’s lodging lose this napkin

and let him find it. trifles light as air

are to the jealous confirmations strong

as proofs of holy writ. this may do something.

335the moor already changes with my poison.

dangerous conceits are in their natures poisons

which at the first are scarce found to distaste,

but with a little act upon the blood

burn like the mines of sulfur.

i’ll leave this handkerchief at cassio’s house and let him find it.to a jealous man, a meaningless little thing like this looks like absolute proof. this handkerchief may be useful to me. the moor’s mind has already become infected with my poisonous suggestions. ideas can be like poisons. at first they hardly even taste bad, but once they get into your blood they start burning like hot lava.

enter othello

othello enters.

    i did say so.

340look, where he comes. not poppy nor mandragora

nor all the drowsy syrups of the world,

shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep

which thou owedst yesterday.

here he comes. no drugs or sleeping pills will ever give you the restful sleep that you had last night.

othello

    ha! ha! false to me?

othello

argh! she’s cheating on me?

iago

why, how now, general? no more of that.

iago

oh, general, , no more of that!

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