e that Louisa attempts to tell her father that she has no emotional experiences because her life has been based on his philosophy of facts. Unfortunately, her father misinterprets her message, and feels that her response is only one of gratitude. Louisa left for home after she had heard her mother was ill. Along her journey home, Louisa realized that she had no childhood memories to make her homecoming a pleasant experience: “As she approached her home now, did any of the best influences of old home descend upon her. The dreams of childhood - its airy fables; its graceful, beautiful humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond ... - what had she to do with these?” (Dickens 149). Louisa keeps realizing that her fathers school of facts has left her with nothing in place of her childhood: “Her remembrances of home and childhood were remembrances of the drying up of every spring and fountain in her young heart as it gushed out. The golden waters were not there.” (Dickens 148). Louisa has now recognized that her father’s philosophy of “facts facts facts” has left her with no emotional experiences, which would have created childhood dreams. Louisa is now aware that if she were to live a life of happiness she must begin by living her life guided by her heart, and not by her fathers philosophy of facts. After feeling some emotions towards James Harthouse, Louisa confronts her father on how his corrupted school of facts has left her with no emotional experiences to guide her: “I curse the hour in which I was born to such a destiny... How could you give me life, and take from me all the inappreciable things that raise it from the state of conscious death? Where are the graces of my soul? Where are the sentiments of my heart? What have you don, O father, what have you done...”(Dickens 161). As the scene a progress, Louisa tells her father that the cause of her unhappy marriage i...
