THE INDIVIDUAL–SOCIETY CONFLICT IN REALIST NOVELS: INTERPRETATIONS OF HISTORICAL REALITY IN HARD TIMES AND NIGHT AND DAY

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  • Khodjayeva Shoira Bekbergenovna lecturer at Urgench Innovation University, Uzbekistan

Keywords:

Realism, individual and society, historical reality, Dickens

Abstract

This thesis compares Charles Dickens’s Hard Times (1854) and Abdulhamid Cholpon’s Kecha va kunduz (Night and Day, 1936) as realist novels that interpret historical reality through the individual–society conflict. It argues that realism produces “truth” through narrative design—typified characters, symbolic spaces, and moral causality—so that industrial modernity in Dickens and uneven modernization in Cholpon become culturally memorable forms of national experience.

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Published

2026-02-28

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Khodjayeva Shoira Bekbergenovna. (2026). THE INDIVIDUAL–SOCIETY CONFLICT IN REALIST NOVELS: INTERPRETATIONS OF HISTORICAL REALITY IN HARD TIMES AND NIGHT AND DAY. International Scientific and Current Research Conferences, 1(01), 24–25. Retrieved from https://orientalpublication.com/index.php/iscrc/article/view/2221

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2026: GLOBAL INNOVATIONS IN SOCIAL POLICY, EDUCATION & MANAGEMENT

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