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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...
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 ...
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...
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...
- Thomas Gradgrind, Sr. Even his name, which sounds like a derivative of "grindstone," has significance. Gradgrind was not only t...
In five pages this paper considers how the socially conscious Dickens portrayed the poor in this and in other novels. Three sourc...
In five pages the author is examined as is the context in which this novel was written in order to analyze the primary points the ...
its merit as a work book for understanding the adult world of men. The Seasons of a Mans Life As mentioned, there exists very ...
quite clear that Edith has just cause to feel alienated from her husband and her marriage from its inception. In the first half of...
he presents. There is pain and violence and death in Hemingways world, and he struggles to show his readers this aspect of life....
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...
artistic and mathematical minds. Or it could indicate that architecture has its share of frauds like every other field of industry...
the commoners, Darnay renounces his title to the Evremonde Estate and goes back to England to live. He proposes to Lucie and she a...
impoverished class lacked proper legal or parliamentary representation. It was a bitter indictment against a system dominated by ...
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 ...
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...
as well. Greed and ambition get in the way of the characters doing what is right, and innocent children become victims of a syste...
much fuller understanding of the feelings and motivations of his fellow men, which is reflected in his sermons. As noted by Eaton ...
the original house, which is far better suited for raising the children (MacLean et al, 2002). Protection under British and...
Industrialism as it existed in the time of the author is discussed in the context of Dickens' classic novel Hard Times. The proble...
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 ...