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funds have been consumed by legal fees. Esther also learns that Tom Jarndyce, the former owner of Bleak House, after coping with t...

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...

impoverished class lacked proper legal or parliamentary representation. It was a bitter indictment against a system dominated by ...

suggests, Gaskell specifically departs from the Victorian middle-class sensibility that equated decency with cleanliness. In doing...

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

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

her intellectualism, Bertha is a victim of her own sexual desires. Bronte tried to provide a useful guide to women of her time in ...

obviously keenly intelligent, and it is clear that, if he applied himself, he could have achieved any goal to which he might have ...

emphasized. Harker is clearly in foreign territory. This point is even emphasized by the Count who tells Harker, "We are in Trans...

her different from others and what is the significance of that difference? In general, Dickens takes little Nell and her grandfat...

as well. Greed and ambition get in the way of the characters doing what is right, and innocent children become victims of a syste...

the commoners, Darnay renounces his title to the Evremonde Estate and goes back to England to live. He proposes to Lucie and she a...

artistic and mathematical minds. Or it could indicate that architecture has its share of frauds like every other field of industry...

a very good life with his mother but then his mother marries and he is sent away to a place called Salem House. It is London board...

inflexible educational system is accurate in his attempt to reveal his own educational experience and also does well in his attemp...

woman likes her surroundings and it is clear that she likes them orderly. A young woman who was not immersed somehow in the idea o...

quite clear that Edith has just cause to feel alienated from her husband and her marriage from its inception. In the first half of...

The theme of common folk and the individual is explored in Charles Dicken's classics. A Tale of Two Cities is discussed in respect...

This paper evaluates a variety of works and how this author wrote in historical context. How Dickens wrote about education and ind...

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 ...

criticism of Victorian institutions as they dramatize the results of Britains Poor Law, which was passed in the early nineteenth c...

This 6 page essay focuses on the characters Mrs. Pardiggle and Mrs. Jellyby. 2 sources....

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

her pretty brown hair. Your own, one day, my dear, and you will use it well. Let me see you play cards with this boy" (Dickens Cha...

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...

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