Mr. Podsnap, a character in Charles Dickens's novel, Our Mutual Friend(1865), is a satirical portrait of the wealthy bourgeois of Dicken's' day. Imagine that you are Mr. Bounderby (another of Dickens's portraits of a self-made man in Hard Times(1854). Discuss your options of, or attitudes towards, five of the following issues: (1) women, marriage, and the family; (2) politics: (3) education; (4) the upper and lower classes; (5) religion; (6) science, technology, business and material progress; (7) the arts (taste in literature, art, home furnishings, architecture, etc). --
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