What is the main idea of this passage? Read the passage from Charles Dickens's Hard Times.
All the public inscriptions in the town were painted
alike, in severe characters of black and white. The jail
might have been the infirmary, the infirmary might have
been the jail, the town-hall might have been either, or
both, or anything else, for anything that appeared to the
contrary in the graces of their construction. Fact, fact,
fact, everywhere in the material aspect of the town;
fact, fact, fact, everywhere in the immaterial.
O Industrialization results in pollution.
Industrialization results in standardization and
monotony
O Laborers in the Coketown factory had to work hard.
O People in Coketown typically volunteered to work
long hours.