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a lonely young woman who spent much of her life on a solitary journey toward love and acceptance. It was not something she would ...

her plainness (women were suppose to be ornamental), Janes independence of will and obvious intellect win her not only the love of...

that tended to see women in a strictly stereotypical fashion. The following examination of Charlotte Brontes life and her mast...

heroine in that, even as a child, she rejected the concept of defect within herself. Victorians saw feminine defect, i.e. traditio...

between people and between the individual and society in general. These contrasts are all intricately detailed in the work of Cha...

Jane comments that "the more he bought me, the more my cheek burned with a sense of annoyance and degradation" (Bronte 236). Roche...

is a lonely young woman who spent much of her life on a solitary journey toward love and acceptance. It was not something she wou...

focus on her self-respect: "I hastened to drive from my mind the hateful notion I had been conceiving respecting Grace Poole; it d...

defining social standing, the also create expectations that sometimes go against the very willful nature of both Jane Eyre and Hel...

for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as me...

it wasnt always practicing what it preached. There was also a stigma attached to mental illness that touched not only the suffere...

way of interacting with the world around her. Is this a...

Meckier 1993). This book can be said to have more dark overtones than those of some of his other novels. In most of his stories, o...

values, and sin versus redemption. The cycle of Pips life illustrates how Pip went from being an innocent boy, into being an arrog...

accountable. In one of his most memorable works, Great Expectations (1860-1861), Dickens tackled the social hypocrisy that was ru...

is Miss Havisham. He believes that she is funding his education so that he can become educated and then wealthy and then be worthy...

the ideals of Dickenss time, in which Victorian societal values were to be accepted as the best values ever to come into existence...

of the novel and are mentioned because of their value in understanding the conflict between Pip and Estella. Chapter 1 Dicke...

these experiences. He rarely spoke of this time of his life" (Charles Dickens: His Childhood). In an understatement perhaps, we ca...

shining armor since he has redesigned his house to look like a castle. However, he does not bring this kind and generous nature in...

easy to see how Leans grasp of cinematography and his ability to create and drive plots throughout the directing and filming proce...

those who are less fortunate. When Pip sees a group of starving and shackled convicts, he is appalled by their plight. One convi...

her pretty brown hair. Your own, one day, my dear, and you will use it well. Let me see you play cards with this boy" (Dickens Cha...

One of the main themes in this Dickens novel is that of disillusionment, and we see this theme emerge on many different levels wit...

conditions within the factories were terrible. Unfortunately, it can be said that they same disgraces that Dickens saw during his ...

illustrating how misery is a product of human actions. This book can be said to have more dark overtones than those of some of h...

how they were hindered and helped by his educational options. Pip, like Dickens, encounters a great deal of frustration with the e...

One of the reasons for this is that Dickens expertly wove just about every emotion and every tale of human nature into this one gr...

In five pages this paper discusses the social portrait sketched by Charles Dickens in Great Expectations in a consideration of Pip...

The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy and Great Expectations by Charles Dickens both deal in major part with discrimination. T...