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

In eight pages this paper examines how Dickens' critiqued Victorian industrialism in his novel and then evaluates his social contr...

a time of many contrasts. While many history books prefer to remember it as a time of self-help, entrepreneurial spirit, laissez-...

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

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

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

kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by o...

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

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

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

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

one down. It is a story of hope in a world where there is hunger and darkness. It is an uplifting book because Oliver goes through...

the tender age of 10 to help support the family by pasting labels on bottles of shoe polish at the Warren Blacking Company.5 The r...

moved out of reach. His journeys across the surface of England are overwhelmed by the difficultly of achieving pastoral consolatio...

expected to do this much work every day(Taylor, 1998). Secondly, he passionate pushed for qualified workers. In other words, put ...

of the Fortunes, Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings and Complete Career of the Nickleby Family, edited by Boz" (Hamilton). Hamil...

lure or seduce Louise away from her husband. Mrs. Sparsit seems to truly enjoy herself in this job, envisioning the staircase of s...

to be "shockingly revolutionary" (Sorensen 12). This feature of his work is considered today to be related to be a reflection of...

love but rather sees it as simply a different option he is being offered in terms of continuing to love her and be devoted to her....

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 influence of modern industrialized society and the move from rural to urban settings, but it can also be said that this testin...

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 ...

Harmons son enter the picture, hiding his identity, in order to watch the woman his father said he was to marry. And, to make it e...

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

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

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

all intents and purposes, Ebeneezer Scrooge was extremely narcissistic, self-absorbed, vain and uncaring. According to the origina...

of one of the children we hear about that is constantly abused as a child, but seems to understand what responsibility is, what lo...

In seven pages this paper examines how Mill and Carlyle influenced the Victorian Era as well as the society of the time influenced...

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...