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Essays 151 - 180
A conceptual analysis of these English novels focuses upon their representation of questing and conforming through such convention...
Several biographies are compared and contrasted in this essay that focuses on two books. An additional book is also reviewed in th...
Education is discussed in this general analysis of this classic work. Mr. Gradgrind is a character given much attention in this th...
In five pages this paper contrasts the social reflections contained within Hard Times and Sense and Sensibility. Three sources ar...
In five pages this paper discusses how birth defects including those involving the cranial neural crest and retinal issues can be ...
way the housekeeper Nelly Dean cares for generations of motherless children of the intertwined Linton and Earnshaw families, compa...
In five pages the author is examined as is the context in which this novel was written in order to analyze the primary points the ...
This paper evaluates a variety of works and how this author wrote in historical context. How Dickens wrote about education and ind...
In five pages this paper considers how the socially conscious Dickens portrayed the poor in this and in other novels. Three sourc...
In seven pages the ways in which Dickens' portrays childhood during the 19th century in his classic novels Great Expectations, Oli...
are very important elements in a romantic novel. There is also the woman who loves Frankenstein without question. She is, of cou...
the boy to play at the wealthy Miss Havershams mansion. Her uppity niece Estella immediately dismissed the blue-collar boy as com...
Dickens appears to introduce Charles Darnays mother for the sole purpose of establishing her as the source for Darnays personal in...
persona, observing early in the narrative, "He was very reluctant to take precedence of so many respected members of the family, b...
funds have been consumed by legal fees. Esther also learns that Tom Jarndyce, the former owner of Bleak House, after coping with t...
family and they come to be grateful for what she has done for them" (ClassicNotes). In the end of the story we are told, by Dicken...
the novel is laid in the first five paragraphs of Chapter 1. The opening paragraph reads almost like a newspaper article (Dickens...
their reactions. For example, Josiah Bounderby is the mill-owner and principal villain in Hard Times. Bounderby is so unremittin...
those who are less fortunate. When Pip sees a group of starving and shackled convicts, he is appalled by their plight. One convi...
However, shortly thereafter, they are sent to debtors prison and David sees his chance to escape the oppressive life. He runs to h...
Carstone, to attempt to solve the generations-long Chancery suit of Jarndyce and Jarndyce (Dickens). There is little that is myste...
Hard Times. Coketown as it appears in Dickens Hard Times, is also painted as a rather dismal environment and in fact, some...
kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by o...
obviously keenly intelligent, and it is clear that, if he applied himself, he could have achieved any goal to which he might have ...
In six pages a character analysis of Esther Summerson is presented within the context of Dickens' novel. Eight sources are cited ...
society." With his literary weapon, Dickens took direct aim, launching a vitriolic attack on the legal, political and socioeconom...
- Thomas Gradgrind, Sr. Even his name, which sounds like a derivative of "grindstone," has significance. Gradgrind was not only t...
only to make the reader see. A novelist of course is supposed to show and not tell. Through showing the reader the story, a moral ...
This 6 page essay focuses on the characters Mrs. Pardiggle and Mrs. Jellyby. 2 sources....
criticism of Victorian institutions as they dramatize the results of Britains Poor Law, which was passed in the early nineteenth c...