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Essays 211 - 240
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...
her different from others and what is the significance of that difference? In general, Dickens takes little Nell and her grandfat...
the growth of slums and a lack of social welfare which led Carlyle to criticise the leaders of society for their obsession with ma...
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 ...
the novel is laid in the first five paragraphs of Chapter 1. The opening paragraph reads almost like a newspaper article (Dickens...
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...
their reactions. For example, Josiah Bounderby is the mill-owner and principal villain in Hard Times. Bounderby is so unremittin...
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 ...
This 6 page essay focuses on the characters Mrs. Pardiggle and Mrs. Jellyby. 2 sources....
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...
Scrooge is the quintessential business owner of the nineteenth century, at least in the opinion of Charles Dickens. He views the ...
In five pages this paper considers how the socially conscious Dickens portrayed the poor in this and in other novels. Three sourc...
- Thomas Gradgrind, Sr. Even his name, which sounds like a derivative of "grindstone," has significance. Gradgrind was not only t...
criticism of Victorian institutions as they dramatize the results of Britains Poor Law, which was passed in the early nineteenth c...
Industrialism as it existed in the time of the author is discussed in the context of Dickens' classic novel Hard Times. The proble...
In five pages the author is examined as is the context in which this novel was written in order to analyze the primary points the ...
In five pages this paper contrasts the social reflections contained within Hard Times and Sense and Sensibility. Three sources ar...
Education is discussed in this general analysis of this classic work. Mr. Gradgrind is a character given much attention in this th...
In this paper consisting of six pages the realistic depiction of abuses in regards to imperialism are in Voltaire's Candide, Remar...
situation arising under the new constitution. Correspondingly, the original intent in framing the first amendment lay in prohibit...
In a paper consisting of 5 pages Dickens' economic commentary as it is revealed in this novel is discussed. There are 4 sources c...
This state of affairs was the order of the day in that era, and it was this sad setting that added to the problems of every day li...
In six pages the ways in which the political economy of Great Britain is attacked in these works are compared along with the socia...
In seven pages Dickens' differing depiction of the French Revolution in this novel through uses of characters as archetypes and me...