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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...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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...

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 ...

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

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, ...

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

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

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...

Carstone, to attempt to solve the generations-long Chancery suit of Jarndyce and Jarndyce (Dickens). There is little that is myste...

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

inflexible educational system is accurate in his attempt to reveal his own educational experience and also does well in his attemp...

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...

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

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

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...