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

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

- 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....

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 ...

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 growth of slums and a lack of social welfare which led Carlyle to criticise the leaders of society for their obsession with ma...

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

for journalism and suspicious attitude towards unjust laws. His sharp ear for conversation helped him reveal characters through th...

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...

person that John F. Kennedy was addressing when he said "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your co...

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

Currently, he is a Chancellors Professor of Modern Art at the University of California at Berkley.8 Born in Bristol in the United ...

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

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...

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 ...

This research paper consists of seven pages and analyzes the opinions of social critics regarding how print media is being dominat...

In this paper consisting of six pages the realistic depiction of abuses in regards to imperialism are in Voltaire's Candide, Remar...

Barthes was addressing "the trivia" of society in a serious way; we would be surprised to see how some of these same themes appear...

Industrialism as it existed in the time of the author is discussed in the context of Dickens' classic novel Hard Times. The proble...

John Dalton, 1999). In 1800, at the age of thirty-four he resigned from his teaching position at New College and became secretary...

PE approach. This argument indicates that PE offers a much better chance than ME of reflecting "real economic forces" (23). ...

problems, but refugees are perhaps most at risk, since many of them "come from areas where disease control, diagnosis and treatmen...