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

criticism of Victorian institutions as they dramatize the results of Britains Poor Law, which was passed in the early nineteenth c...

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 ...

In seven pages the ways in which Dickens' portrays childhood during the 19th century in his classic novels Great Expectations, Oli...

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

This paper evaluates a variety of works and how this author wrote in historical context. How Dickens wrote about education and ind...

In seven pages the transformation of Pip throughout the course of the novel is chronicled. Five sources are cited in the bibliogr...

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...

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...

obviously keenly intelligent, and it is clear that, if he applied himself, he could have achieved any goal to which he might have ...

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

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 ...

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...

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...

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

away. He stands as a man of a higher social class who has integrity. His mother, however, represents all that is bad in the upper ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

the commoners, Darnay renounces his title to the Evremonde Estate and goes back to England to live. He proposes to Lucie and she a...

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...

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