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- 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 ...

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...

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...

their reactions. For example, Josiah Bounderby is the mill-owner and principal villain in Hard Times. Bounderby is so unremittin...

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...

the novel is laid in the first five paragraphs of Chapter 1. The opening paragraph reads almost like a newspaper article (Dickens...

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

as well. Greed and ambition get in the way of the characters doing what is right, and innocent children become victims of a syste...

133). Pips struggle to make sense of the inscription on his parents tombstones has been interpreted by some critics as his firs...

the commoners, Darnay renounces his title to the Evremonde Estate and goes back to England to live. He proposes to Lucie and she a...

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

away. He stands as a man of a higher social class who has integrity. His mother, however, represents all that is bad in the upper ...

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

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...

inflexible educational system is accurate in his attempt to reveal his own educational experience and also does well in his attemp...

One of the reasons for this is that Dickens expertly wove just about every emotion and every tale of human nature into this one gr...

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

of the novel and are mentioned because of their value in understanding the conflict between Pip and Estella. Chapter 1 Dicke...

impoverished class lacked proper legal or parliamentary representation. It was a bitter indictment against a system dominated by ...

family and they come to be grateful for what she has done for them" (ClassicNotes). In the end of the story we are told, by Dicken...

funds have been consumed by legal fees. Esther also learns that Tom Jarndyce, the former owner of Bleak House, after coping with t...

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

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

Dickens appears to introduce Charles Darnays mother for the sole purpose of establishing her as the source for Darnays personal in...

way the housekeeper Nelly Dean cares for generations of motherless children of the intertwined Linton and Earnshaw families, compa...