YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Historical Themes in the Works of Charles Dickens
Essays 151 - 180
In five pages this essay considers what blame should James and Charles assume for the Civil War in England....
of "Desirees Baby," Teresa Gibert observed, "The number and the intensity of the surprises that provoke astonishment in the highly...
London is a common element in this paper that looks at these works. This work by Pepy is compared with the Dickens classic in a fi...
This classic Dickens work is summarized and evaluated for elements such as symbolism and characterization. Thematic elements are a...
Secure in the knowledge that his origins are unknown, Max joins a white supremacist group and allies himself with their bigotry. S...
Different aspects of this Dickens tale are discussed in depth. Morality as well as characterization are issues given attention. An...
Three sonatas make up Opus 10 and mark a move by Beethoven toward new musical territory (Lockwood, 2003). These strongly contrasti...
school children to the workplace, from the entertainment industry to the sports world, racial stereotypes are an integral part of ...
for journalism and suspicious attitude towards unjust laws. His sharp ear for conversation helped him reveal characters through th...
therefore, is a nonentity in all ways that do not pertain to business (Adrian, 1984). Dickens uses the interior of his home to con...
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...
conditions within the factories were terrible. Unfortunately, it can be said that they same disgraces that Dickens saw during his ...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
those who are less fortunate. When Pip sees a group of starving and shackled convicts, he is appalled by their plight. One convi...
their reactions. For example, Josiah Bounderby is the mill-owner and principal villain in Hard Times. Bounderby is so unremittin...
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 ...
This 6 page essay focuses on the characters Mrs. Pardiggle and Mrs. Jellyby. 2 sources....
criticism of Victorian institutions as they dramatize the results of Britains Poor Law, which was passed in the early nineteenth c...
- Thomas Gradgrind, Sr. Even his name, which sounds like a derivative of "grindstone," has significance. Gradgrind was not only t...
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 ...
way the housekeeper Nelly Dean cares for generations of motherless children of the intertwined Linton and Earnshaw families, compa...
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...
alive to confirm conversations nor recording equipment to verify accuracy. However, an author writing historic fiction must do a g...