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Bleak Human Condition in Metamorphosis and In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka

In six pages this analysis of Kafka's works focuses on the themes of fate's ironies and the human condition....

Death in Aeschylus's Agamemnon 'Oresteia' and Flannery O'Connor's 'Wise Blood' 2

In two pages this essay examines how the theme of death is depicted in these two literary works....

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and the Theme of Class Consciousness

In 9 pages this paper considers Dickens' views on class consciousness as reflected in the novel that reveals much about Victorian ...

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...

Analysis of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

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

Heartless Women in the Works of Henrik Ibsen and Charles Dickens

quite clear that Edith has just cause to feel alienated from her husband and her marriage from its inception. In the first half of...

The Works of Charles Dickens and Common People

The theme of common folk and the individual is explored in Charles Dicken's classics. A Tale of Two Cities is discussed in respect...

The family in Great Expectations

existence of alcohol. To him, the rotting barrels that once housed unlimited supplies of beer were symbolic of how he viewed Miss...

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...

Charles Dickens' Estella and F. Scott Fitzgerald's Daisy

none of the women in Gatsby are particularly likeable, but even so, the book retains its power. Daisy Buchanan Lets start with Da...

Industrialization and Charles Dickens' Hard Times

a good daughter, nothing seems to change and life seems without hope." This person would likely not understand that the sufferi...

Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities and Resurrection

to than I have ever known" (Dickens 351). V. Conclusion 1. Sums up prevalence of the theme of resurrection and its importance to ...

Charles Dickens' Great Expectations and the Character of Pip

is Miss Havisham. He believes that she is funding his education so that he can become educated and then wealthy and then be worthy...

Charles Dickens' Tale of Two Cities and the Characterization of Madame Defarge

Madame Defarge. There is an exception however, for a few years back she did play the Wicked Queen in Snow White, which could perha...

Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist Analyzed

city -- grew out of this traumatic childhood experience" (Hackenberg; Johnson). Interestingly enough, in relationship to Fagin,...

Love in Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities

of men" (Dickens V). Carton looks quite a bit like Darnay, however, and in this reality Darnay is set free because it cannot now b...

Comparison of Contemporary Poverty and Charles Dickens' Depiction of Nineteenth Century Poverty in Hard Times

rather than the shameful exception" (Trevelyan, quoted in Johnson, 274). But even more dramatic was the change in attitude towa...

Power and Gender in Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure and Charles Dickens' David Copperfield

In twelve pages this paper examines the themes of gender and power as they are represented in these works of literary fiction. Te...

John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist and Protagonist Saintliness

In 5 pages the saintly protagonists Christian and Oliver and their missions are discussed in a comparative analysis of these novel...

Society and Pip in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations

In five pages this paper discusses the social portrait sketched by Charles Dickens in Great Expectations in a consideration of Pip...

Hard Times by Charles Dickens' and Impact of Rapid Industrialization

In five pages the effects of rapid industrialization in 19th century England are examined within the context of Dickens' novel in ...

Character of Jo in Charles Dickens' Bleak House

after several of the detectives he knew from the local department. Dickens routinely, then, chooses those who are the most...

Abused Child Florence in Charles Dickens' Dombey and Son

barely notices when Florence enters the room. Dickens writes "They had been married ten years, and until this present day ...(they...

Double Lives in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations

illustrating how misery is a product of human actions. This book can be said to have more dark overtones than those of some of h...

Paris and London in Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities

presented with a picture of London where Mr. Darnay understands that he needed to work for what he got. "He had expected labour, a...

Synopsis of Charles Dickens' Hard Times

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

William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, and Epiphanies

all of his lessons come into play and culminate to create a powerful epiphany. We note some of this in the following excerpt: "Spi...

Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities, France and England

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

Narrative Voice in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol and Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights

and understood in many different ways. We are not only given one perspective but two that work together in different and powerful ...

Uses of Humor in Charles Dickens' Little Dorrit and Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson

pasta bars thats ferr shurr. To "that stone that Dante used to sit on" watching Beatrice pass by to get a piece of chestnut cake...