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Education is discussed in this general analysis of this classic work. Mr. Gradgrind is a character given much attention in this th...

Several biographies are compared and contrasted in this essay that focuses on two books. An additional book is also reviewed in th...

A conceptual analysis of these English novels focuses upon their representation of questing and conforming through such convention...

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

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...

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...

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...

shining armor since he has redesigned his house to look like a castle. However, he does not bring this kind and generous nature in...

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

In six pages a character analysis of Esther Summerson is presented within the context of Dickens' novel. Eight sources are cited ...

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

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

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...

Hard Times. Coketown as it appears in Dickens Hard Times, is also painted as a rather dismal environment and in fact, some...

- Thomas Gradgrind, Sr. Even his name, which sounds like a derivative of "grindstone," has significance. Gradgrind was not only t...

only to make the reader see. A novelist of course is supposed to show and not tell. Through showing the reader the story, a moral ...

This 6 page essay focuses on the characters Mrs. Pardiggle and Mrs. Jellyby. 2 sources....

In five pages this paper considers how the socially conscious Dickens portrayed the poor in this and in other novels. Three sourc...

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

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 ...

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

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...

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 ...

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