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attitudes that he has embraced have robbed his life of meaning and value. The ghosts remind him of his past and the choices that h...

would never come true" for his father was arrested and then sent off to prison for failing to pay a debt (Anonymous Charles Dicken...

smaller house in Camden Town, London. The four-room house at 16 Bayham Street is supposedly the model for the Cratchits house" (An...

at this time, there was, there were very few public works to help the poor," a reality that Dickens understood well for the Cratch...

this world are not well educated and that is seemingly due more to a lack of caring than to a lack of knowledge. Coketown is foc...

there would have been no new barrier between them--and followed the old man and woman down-stairs" (Dickens Chapter 3). In this...

evolving its consumer values, wrote the poem as a demonstration of how society was responsible for illustrating female desires as ...

Dickens is an author who, for many, characterizes the Victorian literary era. He had first received public recognition as a newsp...

He must wonder to himself why someone like Drood, who doesnt even love the lovely Rosa, should get to marry her...

the novel and the author views her, and thus views women in general perhaps. The character to be examined is Rosa Dartle. She "i...

Clearly, these elements all preside in Jane Eyre and also in Bleak House. Combining the efforts of these books, we have the haunt...

education is still substantially elevated in contemporary culture. Aristotle, on the other hand, sees virtue as choice and so mora...

world and symbolizes the ideal vision of a woman in a patriarchal world. This is why the embittered and lost man who is Carton lov...

explores the seamy side of city life. In fact, the novels central theme is the horrible treatment endured by the poor and those wh...

he is absolute appalled that Sissy does not know the scientific definition for "horse," and that his own children have been tempte...

the same way, with the result that his daughter Louisa feels unfulfilled while his son Tom becomes completely self-interested. The...

he wants more from life, he begins to have great expectations. Later in the story he is given the opportunity to become educated...

The idea of utilitarianism is one that addresses whether something is of utility, whether it can actually create something positiv...

break his heart. What do you play, boy? asked Estella of myself, with the greatest disdain. Nothing but beggar my neighbour, miss....

novel and helps us see some of the critical sarcasm which Dickens offers in the preface to his novel. In the preface to this nov...

so adept at writing about them (Daunton). In the following we see Dickens describe the conditions and environment of Jo: "It is a...

opens minds, creating a more rounded person, knowing this process and appreciating whilst it is taking place also adds to the pro...

Emmas polar opposite. She has not been born to gentility, but has been raised to be so by the sponsorship of the Campbells. In ord...

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

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

- with particular emphasis placed upon people of the dominant white race. Slavery has constructed the interior life of African-Am...

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...

my visitor, who was cold after her ride and looked hungry and who, our dinner being brought in, required some little assistance in...

the addition of a small warehouse in 2004 and remodeling of the original Cotati store in 2005. Also in 2005, Olivers Market was n...

In five pages this essay considers what blame should James and Charles assume for the Civil War in England....