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

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

One of the main themes in this Dickens novel is that of disillusionment, and we see this theme emerge on many different levels wit...

researchers have dealt with over the course of time. To answer the question "Do basic building blocks of matter exist, and if so, ...

nearly 70 percent and that it can be seen to be directly related to the existence of the "criminal underclass" (pp. 34). He believ...

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...

head bowed to pray before meal time. In fact, if one were to walk into a room and shout, "Jesus Saves", the likely wise crack may ...

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...

work, but not nearly to the extent that hie was influenced by his wife. In fact, the influence of Macdonald, whom Mackintosh marr...

how they were hindered and helped by his educational options. Pip, like Dickens, encounters a great deal of frustration with the e...

illustrating how misery is a product of human actions. This book can be said to have more dark overtones than those of some of h...

presented with a picture of London where Mr. Darnay understands that he needed to work for what he got. "He had expected labour, a...

at Blakesware in Lambs mothers native county of Hertford (Ward and Waller, 2002). The business of London contrasted greatly with ...

of every family. For the most part the only way to relate this history from one generation to the next was through storytelling; ...

brother. As with all female orphans, she becomes a "servant" in her uncles household (Emecheta, 1983, p. 17). Her uncles family co...

perception is that which we, as humans, have been trained to discern as a species, inasmuch as the certain quality of perception r...

are very important elements in a romantic novel. There is also the woman who loves Frankenstein without question. She is, of cou...

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 ...

rivals. In retrospect, many have said that Chaplin was the better director but some critics "consider Keatons work as less pretent...

does not love and who is better than twenty years older than her. Then, his son goes into the future son-in-laws bank and manages ...

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

between people and between the individual and society in general. These contrasts are all intricately detailed in the work of Cha...

those who are less fortunate. When Pip sees a group of starving and shackled convicts, he is appalled by their plight. One convi...

was, historically speaking, the calm before the storm, and Voltaire seemed to sense what was coming. He was often entertaining ro...

their reactions. For example, Josiah Bounderby is the mill-owner and principal villain in Hard Times. Bounderby is so unremittin...

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...

However, shortly thereafter, they are sent to debtors prison and David sees his chance to escape the oppressive life. He runs to h...