Top Notes VCE: Hard Times

Charles Dickens' Hard Times – Study Notes for VCE English

The Top Notes series has been created to assist VCE students of English in their understanding of texts set for the text response section of their paper. Top Notes are easy to read, providing analysis of issues and discussion of important ideas contained in the texts.

Particular care has been taken to ensure that students are able to examine each text in the context of the VCE. These notes should assist you to be able to clearly understand the texts set for study.

Each text includes:

• Plot summary
• Character analysis
• Setting
• Thematic concerns
• Language studies
• Essay questions and a modelled response
• Study practice questions
• Useful quotes