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heartlessness of the industrialist, Bounderby, against the humanity and goodness of one of his textile workers, Stephen Blackpool....

In a paper consisting of 5 pages rounded characters versus flat characters are considered within the context of Dicken's novel as ...

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...

way the housekeeper Nelly Dean cares for generations of motherless children of the intertwined Linton and Earnshaw families, compa...

persona, observing early in the narrative, "He was very reluctant to take precedence of so many respected members of the family, b...

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...

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...

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

funds have been consumed by legal fees. Esther also learns that Tom Jarndyce, the former owner of Bleak House, after coping with t...

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

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

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 ...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

the world. This may be a critical look, on the part of Wilde, at the realities of the traditional family which presumes it is the ...

1824-1827 he was a "day pupil at a school in London" (Cody). But the year in the blacking factory "haunted him all of his life" t...

in England, were something of a novelty, and indeed broke with narrative tradition in a number of compelling ways. One of the most...