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This paper investigates how the Industrial Revolution affected the life of the British society's families in the Hard Times novel. Throughout this discussion, the researchers will examine the main dimensions that had its negative influence on changing the situations of the families and the internal relationships among the families' members till everything was muddled and hard as this novel is titled. In Hard Times, Charles Dickens represents four families of different social framework, Gradgrind's family,Stephen's family, Bounderby's family, and the circus performers' family. When the researcher explores each one of those families, she finds that the industrial revolution's impact is really tough, since those families keep suffering throughout the novel due to its cruelty. This revolution is powerful enough to make the relationship among parents and their children, and among husbands and wives cold, uncomfortable, and lacking the usual warm familiar atmosphere.More importantly, money is the clashing point of the industrial revolution; money speaks in this novel more than anything else. Bryce Lyon states "tradition was the proper teacher of the social wisdom, pure reason no more than a false guide". However, the rise of the term capitalism and the laborers' union are more potent to affect the social familial life of the British society and turned it to move around power, money and nothing else. Traditions were totally neglected at that time, for they made no money, nor authority.For more clarification, the family which has money has everything. It receives respect, appreciation from others. It also has the power to change and control people's minds and direct them the way it likes, or even the way that tears up the spiritual connection among the families' members as what happens in the revolutionary era.Gradgrind' family is one of the victims of the industrial revolution. For instance, Mr. Gradgrind's obsession of being a man of reality, believing that nothing will bring advantages but facts which will lead to have a comfortable life turns his family's life to be hellish. He cares much about money, authority; he desires to be one of the parliament's members because he believes that reaching a good social position stems from having a good scientific background. "The desire/ability to attain to a higher standard of living, changed families' motivation for earning money." He totally neglects the imagination side which is according to him has nothing to do with reality and will bring nothing but failure and defeat. Mr. Gradgrind keeps telling Louisa to "never wonder". That is, his children are as machines that ought to learn, memorize, and analyze figures, numbers and facts. This strict rigid

Crime movies, according to the IMDbwebsite, are the most popular film's genre in Hollywood. However, gang movies are part of crime films that reflect Mafia groups and their struggle for richness and power. This type of film usually includes a lot of weapons, Mafia families, and violent scenes. The present study aims at presenting the stylistic characteristics as reflected in Francis Ford Coppola’s Trilogy Movie The Godfather. The goal of the present studies is to guide the reader in examining the linguistic organization of a literary text in order to achieve understanding. By doing so, it provides the reader of literary text's various benefits, among which is improving the traditional way of thinking about the language. In addition, it reveals the function of certain aspects in a text and helps in understanding the role of these functions in supporting the text in achieving what it does. The research question is an attempt to know whether the use of stylistic analysis approach gives the audience better understanding of The Godfather movie or not. The findings indicate that the application of the theory of stylistic analysis to the movie version of The Godfather determined its ability in supporting people's comprehending and grasping of literary works thoroughly. Thus, researches were recommended, such as studies on the writing style of other novels; as well as studies on other movies using stylistic analysis. Up to the researcher’s knowledge, there were no previous studies on the stylistic analysis of Francis Ford Coppola’s trilogy Movie The Godfather.