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obviously keenly intelligent, and it is clear that, if he applied himself, he could have achieved any goal to which he might have ...

their reactions. For example, Josiah Bounderby is the mill-owner and principal villain in Hard Times. Bounderby is so unremittin...

Carstone, to attempt to solve the generations-long Chancery suit of Jarndyce and Jarndyce (Dickens). There is little that is myste...

However, shortly thereafter, they are sent to debtors prison and David sees his chance to escape the oppressive life. He runs to h...

Hard Times. Coketown as it appears in Dickens Hard Times, is also painted as a rather dismal environment and in fact, some...

for journalism and suspicious attitude towards unjust laws. His sharp ear for conversation helped him reveal characters through th...

therefore, is a nonentity in all ways that do not pertain to business (Adrian, 1984). Dickens uses the interior of his home to con...

her different from others and what is the significance of that difference? In general, Dickens takes little Nell and her grandfat...

the growth of slums and a lack of social welfare which led Carlyle to criticise the leaders of society for their obsession with ma...

impoverished class lacked proper legal or parliamentary representation. It was a bitter indictment against a system dominated by ...

away. He stands as a man of a higher social class who has integrity. His mother, however, represents all that is bad in the upper ...

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...

as well. Greed and ambition get in the way of the characters doing what is right, and innocent children become victims of a syste...

a very good life with his mother but then his mother marries and he is sent away to a place called Salem House. It is London board...

the commoners, Darnay renounces his title to the Evremonde Estate and goes back to England to live. He proposes to Lucie and she a...

artistic and mathematical minds. Or it could indicate that architecture has its share of frauds like every other field of industry...

quite clear that Edith has just cause to feel alienated from her husband and her marriage from its inception. In the first half of...

inflexible educational system is accurate in his attempt to reveal his own educational experience and also does well in his attemp...

Scrooge is the quintessential business owner of the nineteenth century, at least in the opinion of Charles Dickens. He views the ...

Charlemagne has been interpreted differently by different writers over the centuries. Those differences in interpretation are app...

This paper evaluates a variety of works and how this author wrote in historical context. How Dickens wrote about education and ind...

This 6 page essay focuses on the characters Mrs. Pardiggle and Mrs. Jellyby. 2 sources....

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 ...

criticism of Victorian institutions as they dramatize the results of Britains Poor Law, which was passed in the early nineteenth c...

In five pages this paper considers how the socially conscious Dickens portrayed the poor in this and in other novels. Three sourc...

In a paper consisting of 5 pages Dickens' economic commentary as it is revealed in this novel is discussed. There are 4 sources c...

The theme of common folk and the individual is explored in Charles Dicken's classics. A Tale of Two Cities is discussed in respect...

This state of affairs was the order of the day in that era, and it was this sad setting that added to the problems of every day li...

In seven pages Dickens' differing depiction of the French Revolution in this novel through uses of characters as archetypes and me...