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

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 ...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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 ...

- Thomas Gradgrind, Sr. Even his name, which sounds like a derivative of "grindstone," has significance. Gradgrind was not only t...

This 6 page essay focuses on the characters Mrs. Pardiggle and Mrs. Jellyby. 2 sources....

In five pages this paper considers how the socially conscious Dickens portrayed the poor in this and in other novels. Three sourc...

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...

Hard Times. Coketown as it appears in Dickens Hard Times, is also painted as a rather dismal environment and in fact, some...

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

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

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

are very important elements in a romantic novel. There is also the woman who loves Frankenstein without question. She is, of cou...

pretensions that keep them in Hell, and stay in Heaven, that is, not to get back on the bus for the return trip. Lewis reveals l...

and achieve the goal of freedom. After Legree learns that Tom encouraged two of his slaves, Cassy and Emmeline to escape, he vows ...

In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at Alexie's "How to Write the Great American Indian Novel". The harmful American charact...

We also had to write a lot of compositions. There was a lot of attention to grammar, spelling and composition, but sometimes it s...

As such he makes a very good narrator. He also cares about people, which also makes him a reliable narrator. This is good because ...

portrayal of some shocking events of the thirties" (French 43). Its various conflicts consider the downside of American capitalis...