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of ever-growing interest. So, with great perseverance and untiring industry, he prospered" (Dickens NA). We are then presented ...

133). Pips struggle to make sense of the inscription on his parents tombstones has been interpreted by some critics as his firs...

of money. Gradgrind is mortified, his familys reputation is destroyed and he realizes (though it has come at great cost) that his ...

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

of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure. He then moves on...

been misrecognized for so long that they often feel that they are unworthy. "They have internalized a picture of their own inferio...

doing whatever one wants, with no regard to law (Krause, 2000). If independence must be sacrificed in order to achieve political ...

leans on her heavily for advice and help in maintaining the farm after her fathers death. In fact, Ruby helps Ada take care of her...

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 ...

and understood in many different ways. We are not only given one perspective but two that work together in different and powerful ...

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

and represents his coming of age as a painter, with the Anglo influence evident in the works "polish and refinement" (Parker, 1938...

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

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

rivals. In retrospect, many have said that Chaplin was the better director but some critics "consider Keatons work as less pretent...

the novel is laid in the first five paragraphs of Chapter 1. The opening paragraph reads almost like a newspaper article (Dickens...

was, historically speaking, the calm before the storm, and Voltaire seemed to sense what was coming. He was often entertaining ro...

society." With his literary weapon, Dickens took direct aim, launching a vitriolic attack on the legal, political and socioeconom...

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...

pasta bars thats ferr shurr. To "that stone that Dante used to sit on" watching Beatrice pass by to get a piece of chestnut cake...

In this paper containing five pages this insightful bibliography of an American First Lady is discussed as it reveals an accurate ...

In six pages a character analysis of Esther Summerson is presented within the context of Dickens' novel. Eight sources are cited ...

In five pages Taylor's multiculturalism theories are discussed and then compared with those of Emile Durkheim and Max Weber with s...

- 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 ...

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

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

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...