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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...

city -- grew out of this traumatic childhood experience" (Hackenberg; Johnson). Interestingly enough, in relationship to Fagin,...

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...

Notably, Rearick conceptualizes these elements by relating the historical factors, including the conflicts prior to this era that ...

masterpieces" (2000). Furthermore, Lincoln understood that the greatest tool an orator has to persuade people to his viewpoint is ...

way the housekeeper Nelly Dean cares for generations of motherless children of the intertwined Linton and Earnshaw families, compa...

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

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 ...

freed black man and has just hopped onboard a slaving ship headed for Africa. The ships captain is a dwarf named Ebenezer Falcon, ...

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...

barely notices when Florence enters the room. Dickens writes "They had been married ten years, and until this present day ...(they...

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

all of his lessons come into play and culminate to create a powerful epiphany. We note some of this in the following excerpt: "Spi...

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...

after several of the detectives he knew from the local department. Dickens routinely, then, chooses those who are the most...

is a machine for living in," he wrote. The machines he admired most were ocean liners, and his architecture spoke of sun and wind ...

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...

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

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

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...

the world, based on his observations and research. He states, "I am fully convinced that species are not immutable; but that those...

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