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of ever-growing interest. So, with great perseverance and untiring industry, he prospered" (Dickens NA). We are then presented ...

133). Pips struggle to make sense of the inscription on his parents tombstones has been interpreted by some critics as his firs...

of money. Gradgrind is mortified, his familys reputation is destroyed and he realizes (though it has come at great cost) that his ...

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

of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure. He then moves on...

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

and represents his coming of age as a painter, with the Anglo influence evident in the works "polish and refinement" (Parker, 1938...

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...

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 ...

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

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, ...

therefore, is a nonentity in all ways that do not pertain to business (Adrian, 1984). Dickens uses the interior of his home to con...

conditions within the factories were terrible. Unfortunately, it can be said that they same disgraces that Dickens saw during his ...

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...

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

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...

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

alone could carry the long swords (Dunn, 1977, Sellen, 2002). Dunns appreciation of some of the key elements of the classes explai...

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

depiction of explicit violence, rapes, flogging, etc. are "implied rather than shown," he seems to feel that this is an artistic a...

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

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

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