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Relevance of Secondary Literary Characters

Emmas polar opposite. She has not been born to gentility, but has been raised to be so by the sponsorship of the Campbells. In ord...

Freud and Hard Times

In five pages the conduct of James Harthouse and Louisa Bounderby in the novel Hard Times by Charles Dickens is analyzed based upo...

Four Dickens' Characters Compared

In a paper consisting of 5 pages the transformations of protagonists in four works of Charles Dickens are compared in an examinati...

Reason vs. Emotion in Dickens and Austen

the same way, with the result that his daughter Louisa feels unfulfilled while his son Tom becomes completely self-interested. The...

The U.S. Decision to Invade Iraq in 2003, Justified with References to John Stuart Mill, Immanuel Kant, Thomas Nagel and the Principles of Utilitarianism

rule-utilitarianism. Act-utilitarianism "supposes that each particular action should be evaluated solely by references to its own ...

Connectivity, External and Internal Drive Bays

front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...

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...

Comparison of Hard Times by Charles Dickens and Unto the Last by John Ruskin

In six pages the ways in which the political economy of Great Britain is attacked in these works are compared along with the socia...

Hard Times by Charles Dickens and a Thomas Gradgrind Sr. Character Analysis

- Thomas Gradgrind, Sr. Even his name, which sounds like a derivative of "grindstone," has significance. Gradgrind was not only t...

Hard Times by Charles Dickens and the Lack of Hidden Meanings

Hard Times. Coketown as it appears in Dickens Hard Times, is also painted as a rather dismal environment and in fact, some...

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...

Hard Times by Charles Dickens

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

Society in the Novel Great Expectations

hostile, choosing to abide by his inner instinct and institute avoidance. "Better not try to brew beer there now, or it would tur...

Act Utilitarianism and Rule Utilitarianism

In six pages this essay defines utilitarianism and then attempts to answer 'Does rule utilitarianism collapse into act utilitarian...

Types of Utilitarianism

This 5 page paper defines the philosophy of utilitarianism and differentiates between act-utilitarianism and rule-utilitarianism. ...

Quantity v. Quality in Utilitarianism

This 5 page paper analyzes John Stuart Mill's theory of Utilitarianism, how it works and how it evaluates actions, both quantitati...

Immorality of Deforestation Questioned

of an action is determined only by the welfare of individuals (2003). It is important to note that this topic involves the environ...

The Demands of Utilitarianism

the expense of so many others? Indeed not, inasmuch as Sarahs mistake cannot be expected to cost one hundred innocent lives over ...

Ethical Theories and Norma Rae

offer the greatest good to the greatest number, in that the rights of the majority - the workforce - are protected. However, we al...

Can Utilitarianism Be Considered a Sound Ethical Theory?

complements that of the utilitarian. The utilitarian focuses on the badness of the victims agony but cannot readily grasp the sign...

Mill and Utilitarianism

films, good meals-it doesnt really matter in the context of the doctrine. His point is that things can only be considered "better"...

Uses of Humor in Charles Dickens' Little Dorrit and Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson

pasta bars thats ferr shurr. To "that stone that Dante used to sit on" watching Beatrice pass by to get a piece of chestnut cake...

The Signalman as a Ghost Story

the story may have reflected a time in Dickens life where the writer was significantly more in tuned to the transient aspects of w...

Character Development of Thomas Hardy and Charles Dickens

In eight pages a comparison between the ways in which Hardy and Dickens create the versimilitude illusion through their characteri...

Imagery as Used in Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities

level to something much deeper. The trick in appreciating Dickens use of symbolism is to figure out what his images mean. And wha...

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...

"Great Expectations" and Realism

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

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...

Morals, Utilitarianism and William Frankena

deem as acceptable. The concept of a rational society, in which the entire community is greatly influenced by principles its mem...

The Distinction Between Persons and the Principles of Utilitarianism

causes them to prefer intellectual pleasures over sensual ones. He continues in his thinking to assume that the principle of utili...