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Essays 151 - 180
heartlessness of the industrialist, Bounderby, against the humanity and goodness of one of his textile workers, Stephen Blackpool....
A conceptual analysis of these English novels focuses upon their representation of questing and conforming through such convention...
Several biographies are compared and contrasted in this essay that focuses on two books. An additional book is also reviewed in th...
Education is discussed in this general analysis of this classic work. Mr. Gradgrind is a character given much attention in this th...
In five pages this paper contrasts the social reflections contained within Hard Times and Sense and Sensibility. Three sources ar...
In five pages this paper discusses how birth defects including those involving the cranial neural crest and retinal issues can be ...
society." With his literary weapon, Dickens took direct aim, launching a vitriolic attack on the legal, political and socioeconom...
the novel is laid in the first five paragraphs of Chapter 1. The opening paragraph reads almost like a newspaper article (Dickens...
In six pages a character analysis of Esther Summerson is presented within the context of Dickens' novel. Eight sources are cited ...
criticism of Victorian institutions as they dramatize the results of Britains Poor Law, which was passed in the early nineteenth c...
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 ...
This 6 page essay focuses on the characters Mrs. Pardiggle and Mrs. Jellyby. 2 sources....
In seven pages the ways in which Dickens' portrays childhood during the 19th century in his classic novels Great Expectations, Oli...
for journalism and suspicious attitude towards unjust laws. His sharp ear for conversation helped him reveal characters through th...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
their reactions. For example, Josiah Bounderby is the mill-owner and principal villain in Hard Times. Bounderby is so unremittin...
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...
therefore, is a nonentity in all ways that do not pertain to business (Adrian, 1984). Dickens uses the interior of his home to con...
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...