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It seems that no matter what biography you read about Dickens the primary point, in relationship to his childhood, was that he was...

This essay is on Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. The writer looks at the role of educ...

brought there. Pip tells of this meeting in a calm voice, almost serene, but his powers of observation are acute. He describes th...

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...

In seven pages the ways in which Dickens' portrays childhood during the 19th century in his classic novels Great Expectations, Oli...

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

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

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

In seven pages the transformation of Pip throughout the course of the novel is chronicled. Five sources are cited in the bibliogr...

In 5 pages this paper discusses how social values are presented in this novel by Charles Dickens in a consideration of setting, po...

In a paper consisting of 5 pages the Victorian era as represented in the Dickens novel is considered in terms of its false values,...

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

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

In a paper consisting of 5 pages rounded characters versus flat characters are considered within the context of Dicken's novel as ...

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...

accountable. In one of his most memorable works, Great Expectations (1860-1861), Dickens tackled the social hypocrisy that was ru...

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

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

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

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

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...

one down. It is a story of hope in a world where there is hunger and darkness. It is an uplifting book because Oliver goes through...

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

far one of the more interesting chapters of Philip IIs life, in fact, revolved around that innocuous group of islands now known as...

moved out of reach. His journeys across the surface of England are overwhelmed by the difficultly of achieving pastoral consolatio...

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....

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

to be "shockingly revolutionary" (Sorensen 12). This feature of his work is considered today to be related to be a reflection of...

lure or seduce Louise away from her husband. Mrs. Sparsit seems to truly enjoy herself in this job, envisioning the staircase of s...