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persona, observing early in the narrative, "He was very reluctant to take precedence of so many respected members of the family, b...

wanted (in the unproblematic sense) was not really free, the kind of discrimination which allows us to put conditions on peoples m...

cultures, cities and towns that were, at the time, larger than many European cities that were of importance. His journey discusses...

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...

nothing)" (The origin of species, 2005). But this was countered by "James Huttons uniformitarian theory of 1785 [which] envisione...

impoverished class lacked proper legal or parliamentary representation. It was a bitter indictment against a system dominated by ...

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

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...

of the novel and are mentioned because of their value in understanding the conflict between Pip and Estella. Chapter 1 Dicke...

biologically based phenomenon and explains why animals experience many of the same emotions that humans do. Presently, the...

funds have been consumed by legal fees. Esther also learns that Tom Jarndyce, the former owner of Bleak House, after coping with t...

learned quickly and by 1877, he had developed a reputation that earned him the respect of the Irish in Great Britain, so much so t...

is Miss Havisham. He believes that she is funding his education so that he can become educated and then wealthy and then be worthy...

trade was the first world globalization effort, Corn insists on raising the question of Magellan. Other historians and commentator...

Madame Defarge. There is an exception however, for a few years back she did play the Wicked Queen in Snow White, which could perha...

in this short story depict them simply in neutral roles. Some of the female depictions in this story, however, at least hint at t...

a good daughter, nothing seems to change and life seems without hope." This person would likely not understand that the sufferi...

which included Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman (Beginnings of Modern Dance, 2004). By the end of the 1920s, th...

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 ...

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

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...

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...

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...

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