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Identity, Maturity and David Copperfield

This essay offers discussion of the issues maturity and identity in regards to "David Copperfield," the classic novel by Charles D...

Literature and Philosophical Themes

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

Classic Literature and the Gothic Motif

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

Blake, Dickens and Wilde and their Eras

This essay looks at representative works of William Blake, Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde in relation to the eras in which they w...

Literature of the Victorian Age

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

Hard Times by Charles Dickens and its Biblical Theme

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...

The Characters of Arthur Clennam and His Mother in Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

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

Text Reading and Whether or Not It Can be Changed Through the Study of Literature

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

The Use of Utilitarianism in Dickens' Hard Times

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

Gender Relations in A Tale of Two Cities

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...

Bleak House by Charles Dickens, National Identity, and Language

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

Bleak House by Charles Dickens and the English Court System

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...

Excerpts from Bleak House

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

Oliver Twist and the Comedic Voice

his fathers will by forcing his half-brother Oliver into crime" (Baxter). With this in mind we see that the story is truly dark...

Interpretation According to Ronald Dworkin and Charles Darwin's Bleak House

In fifteen sources this paper discusses philosopher Ronald Dworkin's views on interpretation and offers a legal comparison between...

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens and Primary Major Themes

In five pages this paper presents a thematic analysis of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. One source is cited in the bibliog...

Victorian Literature and Women

In five pages this paper discusses how social commentary during the Victorian Age was expressed through female characterizations i...

'Master and Man' Short Story by Leo Tolstoy

In five pages this paper discusses how the author's beliefs regarding death and Christianity are expressed in this short story by ...

Comparing and Contrasting Dickens and Carlyle

The writer compares and contrasts the novels Sartor Resartus by Thomas Carlyle and Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens and argues tha...

Society's Treatment of Women in Literature in an Analysis of Female Characters Daisy, Harriet, and Lucie

This essay consists of eleven pages and examines society's treatment of women in the female characterizations featured in the lite...

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

This tale by Charles Dickens and its Christmas philosophy representation in Western culture are discussed in 5 pages. There are 7...

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens and Social Strife

In 5 pages this paper examines the theme of social strife in this novel by Charles Dickens. There are 5 sources cited in the bi...

Comparative Analysis of the Writings of Charles Dickens and Mark Twain

Puddnhead Wilson, in which Twain argued quite effectively that "niggers" were made?not born (Thompson 289). Despite their differ...

Humanitism, Capitalism, and Adam Smith and Charles Dickens

In seven pages capitalism's development is examined in terms of humanitism's impact with discourses of Adam Smith, Charles Dickens...

A Critique of A Tale of Two Cities

The first estate was comprised of the clergy, the second group was the nobles and the third was made of the rest of the people....

Selfishness and Greed in A Tale Of Two Cities

The themes of selfishness and greed come forth in this analysis of a classic piece by Charles Dickens. The focus on literary techn...

Dickens and His Life

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

Life and Influence of Charles Dickens

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

Food and Drink from the Perspective of Dickens

games, poultry, prawn, great joints of meat, suckling-pigs, ...barrels of oysters, red-hot chestnuts, cherry-cheeked apples, juicy...

A Christmas Carol - Two Critiques

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