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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...

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...

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...

presented with a picture of London where Mr. Darnay understands that he needed to work for what he got. "He had expected labour, a...

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

been misrecognized for so long that they often feel that they are unworthy. "They have internalized a picture of their own inferio...

doing whatever one wants, with no regard to law (Krause, 2000). If independence must be sacrificed in order to achieve political ...

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

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

leans on her heavily for advice and help in maintaining the farm after her fathers death. In fact, Ruby helps Ada take care of her...

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 ...

and understood in many different ways. We are not only given one perspective but two that work together in different and powerful ...

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,...

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...

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...

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

between people and between the individual and society in general. These contrasts are all intricately detailed in the work of Cha...

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

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...

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

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...