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and captivating. History indicates that this has always been true. General William Tecumseh Sherman was so taken with the city o...
are very important elements in a romantic novel. There is also the woman who loves Frankenstein without question. She is, of cou...
way the housekeeper Nelly Dean cares for generations of motherless children of the intertwined Linton and Earnshaw families, compa...
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...
artistic and mathematical minds. Or it could indicate that architecture has its share of frauds like every other field of industry...
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...
persona, observing early in the narrative, "He was very reluctant to take precedence of so many respected members of the family, b...
the boy to play at the wealthy Miss Havershams mansion. Her uppity niece Estella immediately dismissed the blue-collar boy as com...
Dickens appears to introduce Charles Darnays mother for the sole purpose of establishing her as the source for Darnays personal in...
for journalism and suspicious attitude towards unjust laws. His sharp ear for conversation helped him reveal characters through th...
therefore, is a nonentity in all ways that do not pertain to business (Adrian, 1984). Dickens uses the interior of his home to con...
the poets compositional strategy. She is one of Chaucers best-known and most discussed characters, primarily because she challenge...
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...
In six pages a character analysis of Esther Summerson is presented within the context of Dickens' novel. Eight sources are cited ...
The Miller's Tale and the Pardoner's Tale from Chaucers' Canterbury Tales are compared in this paper to Beowulf and Sir Gawain and...
society." With his literary weapon, Dickens took direct aim, launching a vitriolic attack on the legal, political and socioeconom...
their reactions. For example, Josiah Bounderby is the mill-owner and principal villain in Hard Times. Bounderby is so unremittin...
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...
shining armor since he has redesigned his house to look like a castle. However, he does not bring this kind and generous nature in...
inflexible educational system is accurate in his attempt to reveal his own educational experience and also does well in his attemp...
133). Pips struggle to make sense of the inscription on his parents tombstones has been interpreted by some critics as his firs...
as well. Greed and ambition get in the way of the characters doing what is right, and innocent children become victims of a syste...
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...
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...