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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...

Characters of Nancy and Jane Eyre Compared

In seven pages these female protagonists from Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist and Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre are contrasted and co...

Great Expectations: Realist and Non-Realist

one hand. (McAllister 158). Such an illustration is incredibly focused in realist tradition, as Pip struggles to develop himself...

Critical Analysis: "Nicholas Nickleby"

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

'The Poor Relation's Story' by Charles Dickens and What It's Like to be an Outsider

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

Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, T.S. Eliot's 'The Mill on the Floss' and Narrative Perspective

had a daughter who loved him"; however, Maggie received no such indications either from her father" or from Tom--the two idols of ...

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and the Significance of the Work Concept

the boy to play at the wealthy Miss Havershams mansion. Her uppity niece Estella immediately dismissed the blue-collar boy as com...

A Look at Great Expectations in the Context of the Author's Life

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...

Love's Power in A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

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....

Literature of T.S. Eliot, Charles Dickens, and Mary Shelley

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

"Great Expectations" and Realism

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

Realism and Charles Dickens

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...

Wilde's and Dickens' Ideas of Traditional Families

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 ...

Christmas and A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

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...

Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens

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

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and the Character of Pip

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

Ebenezer Scrooge's Emotional State in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol

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

Identity of Pip's Benefactor Revealed in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

In five pages Chapter XXXIX of Dickens' novel is examined in the text passage that reveals the convict Magwitch to be the financia...

A Christmas Carol and the Industrial Society Critique of Charles Dickens

Scrooge is the quintessential business owner of the nineteenth century, at least in the opinion of Charles Dickens. He views the ...

Great Expectations and Charles Dickens

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

Themes of Positive Social Change in Dickens and Eliot

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

Victorian Literature and Class Consciousness

In 5 pages the Victorian class consciousness that reached a pinnacle during the mid to late 19th century is examined as it is refl...

World Perceptions of the Victorian Era

In five pages this paper discusses how Victorian Era individuals perceived the world in a comparative analysis of Angela Thirkell'...

David Lean's Film Version of Great Expectations and Confusing Appearances for Reality

In five pages this paper considers the 1946 film adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel by director David Lean in a discussion of ho...

Society in the Novel Great Expectations

hostile, choosing to abide by his inner instinct and institute avoidance. "Better not try to brew beer there now, or it would tur...

Protagonist David Copperfield

In five pages the protagonist in Charles Dickens' novel is examined in terms of his childishness and self centered ways. There ar...

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

In seven pages Dickens' differing depiction of the French Revolution in this novel through uses of characters as archetypes and me...

Bleak House by Charles Dickens and the Character Esther Summerson

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

Analyzing Bleak House by Charles Dickens

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

Victorian Spirituality in A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

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...