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those who are less fortunate. When Pip sees a group of starving and shackled convicts, he is appalled by their plight. One convi...
Industrialism as it existed in the time of the author is discussed in the context of Dickens' classic novel Hard Times. The proble...
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...
conditions within the factories were terrible. Unfortunately, it can be said that they same disgraces that Dickens saw during his ...
of one of the children we hear about that is constantly abused as a child, but seems to understand what responsibility is, what lo...
how they were hindered and helped by his educational options. Pip, like Dickens, encounters a great deal of frustration with the e...
the influence of modern industrialized society and the move from rural to urban settings, but it can also be said that this testin...
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 ...
Harmons son enter the picture, hiding his identity, in order to watch the woman his father said he was to marry. And, to make it e...
therefore, is a nonentity in all ways that do not pertain to business (Adrian, 1984). Dickens uses the interior of his home to con...
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...
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 ...
a time of many contrasts. While many history books prefer to remember it as a time of self-help, entrepreneurial spirit, laissez-...
shining armor since he has redesigned his house to look like a castle. However, he does not bring this kind and generous nature in...
of money. Gradgrind is mortified, his familys reputation is destroyed and he realizes (though it has come at great cost) that his ...
of ever-growing interest. So, with great perseverance and untiring industry, he prospered" (Dickens NA). We are then presented ...
a good daughter, nothing seems to change and life seems without hope." This person would likely not understand that the sufferi...
linked to societal ideas of the early eighteenth century as to what constituted a "proper" middle class English life. This is evid...
had a daughter who loved him"; however, Maggie received no such indications either from her father" or from Tom--the two idols of ...
the ideals of Dickenss time, in which Victorian societal values were to be accepted as the best values ever to come into existence...
values, and sin versus redemption. The cycle of Pips life illustrates how Pip went from being an innocent boy, into being an arrog...
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....
are very important elements in a romantic novel. There is also the woman who loves Frankenstein without question. She is, of cou...
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...
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...
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...