YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Works of Charles Dickens and Common People
Essays 181 - 210
- Thomas Gradgrind, Sr. Even his name, which sounds like a derivative of "grindstone," has significance. Gradgrind was not only t...
Industrialism as it existed in the time of the author is discussed in the context of Dickens' classic novel Hard Times. The proble...
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 ...
In seven pages the ways in which Dickens' portrays childhood during the 19th century in his classic novels Great Expectations, Oli...
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...
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...
words of major scholars and theologians from the past and present to explain ideas. There is another statement the author makes ...
in England, were something of a novelty, and indeed broke with narrative tradition in a number of compelling ways. One of the most...
are very important elements in a romantic novel. There is also the woman who loves Frankenstein without question. She is, of cou...
obviously keenly intelligent, and it is clear that, if he applied himself, he could have achieved any goal to which he might have ...
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...
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...
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 ...
those who are less fortunate. When Pip sees a group of starving and shackled convicts, he is appalled by their plight. One convi...
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 novel is laid in the first five paragraphs of Chapter 1. The opening paragraph reads almost like a newspaper article (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...
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 ...
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 ...
impoverished class lacked proper legal or parliamentary representation. It was a bitter indictment against a system dominated by ...
of the novel and are mentioned because of their value in understanding the conflict between Pip and Estella. Chapter 1 Dicke...