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Social Struggles and Women in Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis, Charles Dickens' Hard Times, and Sarah Orne Jewett's A White Heron

Jewetts Sylvia is not far removed from the oppressive social structure Louisa is forced to endure. For Sylvia, the white heron ex...

Historical Themes in the Works of Charles Dickens

This paper evaluates a variety of works and how this author wrote in historical context. How Dickens wrote about education and ind...

Victorian Novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

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

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

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

A Christmas Carol and the Industrial Society Critique of Charles Dickens

Scrooge is the quintessential business owner of the nineteenth century, at least in the opinion of Charles Dickens. He views the ...

Victorian Spirituality in A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

This state of affairs was the order of the day in that era, and it was this sad setting that added to the problems of every day li...

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and Characterization

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

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

In seven pages Dickens' differing depiction of the French Revolution in this novel through uses of characters as archetypes and me...

Hard Times by Charles Dickens

heartlessness of the industrialist, Bounderby, against the humanity and goodness of one of his textile workers, Stephen Blackpool....

Chapter Eight of Bleak House by Charles Dickens

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

Sissy and Louisa in Hard Times by Charles Dickens

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...

Racism in Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain and Classism in Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

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 ...

Chapter Overview of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

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

A Criticism of Charles Dickens

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

Chapter One Significance of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

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

Fate in Bleak House by Charles Dickens

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

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...

Literary Overview of 'A Tale of Two Cities' by Charles Dickens

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

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...

William Makepeace Thackeray and Charles Dickens

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...

Past Theme in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

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...

Bleak House by Charles Dickens and the Character Esther Summerson

In six pages a character analysis of Esther Summerson is presented within the context of Dickens' novel. Eight sources are cited ...

A Review of Bleak House by Charles Dickens

This 6 page essay focuses on the characters Mrs. Pardiggle and Mrs. Jellyby. 2 sources....

Morality in Bleak House by Charles Dickens and Light in August by William Faulkner

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 ...

Charles Dickens on Childhood

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

Bleak House by Charles Dickens and Representation of the Poor Class

In five pages this paper considers how the socially conscious Dickens portrayed the poor in this and in other novels. Three sourc...

Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens

therefore, is a nonentity in all ways that do not pertain to business (Adrian, 1984). Dickens uses the interior of his home to con...

Characterization in Hard Times by Charles Dickens

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

Christmas and A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

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...

Heroism in A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

obviously keenly intelligent, and it is clear that, if he applied himself, he could have achieved any goal to which he might have ...