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Essays 181 - 210
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...
conditions within the factories were terrible. Unfortunately, it can be said that they same disgraces that Dickens saw during his ...
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...
obviously keenly intelligent, and it is clear that, if he applied himself, he could have achieved any goal to which he might have ...
the novel is laid in the first five paragraphs of Chapter 1. The opening paragraph reads almost like a newspaper article (Dickens...
those who are less fortunate. When Pip sees a group of starving and shackled convicts, he is appalled by their plight. One convi...
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...
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 ...
This paper evaluates a variety of works and how this author wrote in historical context. How Dickens wrote about education and ind...
In seven pages the ways in which Dickens' portrays childhood during the 19th century in his classic novels Great Expectations, Oli...
In 9 pages this paper considers Dickens' views on class consciousness as reflected in the novel that reveals much about Victorian ...
In seven pages the transformation of Pip throughout the course of the novel is chronicled. Five sources are cited in the bibliogr...
In five pages this paper analyzes Stoll's text in terms of the author's point of view and the debates that continue to linger rega...
- 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....
criticism of Victorian institutions as they dramatize the results of Britains Poor Law, which was passed in the early nineteenth c...
their reactions. For example, Josiah Bounderby is the mill-owner and principal villain in Hard Times. Bounderby is so unremittin...
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...
way the housekeeper Nelly Dean cares for generations of motherless children of the intertwined Linton and Earnshaw families, compa...
are very important elements in a romantic novel. There is also the woman who loves Frankenstein without question. She is, of cou...
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 ...
of the novel and are mentioned because of their value in understanding the conflict between Pip and Estella. Chapter 1 Dicke...
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...