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novel and helps us see some of the critical sarcasm which Dickens offers in the preface to his novel. In the preface to this nov...

the same way, with the result that his daughter Louisa feels unfulfilled while his son Tom becomes completely self-interested. The...

he is absolute appalled that Sissy does not know the scientific definition for "horse," and that his own children have been tempte...

because she often reads gothic novels and so her view of society is a bit askew. However, in the descriptions of her one can see t...

explores the seamy side of city life. In fact, the novels central theme is the horrible treatment endured by the poor and those wh...

The idea of utilitarianism is one that addresses whether something is of utility, whether it can actually create something positiv...

world and symbolizes the ideal vision of a woman in a patriarchal world. This is why the embittered and lost man who is Carton lov...

In five pages the conduct of James Harthouse and Louisa Bounderby in the novel Hard Times by Charles Dickens is analyzed based upo...

Dickens is an author who, for many, characterizes the Victorian literary era. He had first received public recognition as a newsp...

He must wonder to himself why someone like Drood, who doesnt even love the lovely Rosa, should get to marry her...

there would have been no new barrier between them--and followed the old man and woman down-stairs" (Dickens Chapter 3). In this...

evolving its consumer values, wrote the poem as a demonstration of how society was responsible for illustrating female desires as ...

Clearly, these elements all preside in Jane Eyre and also in Bleak House. Combining the efforts of these books, we have the haunt...

the novel and the author views her, and thus views women in general perhaps. The character to be examined is Rosa Dartle. She "i...

would never come true" for his father was arrested and then sent off to prison for failing to pay a debt (Anonymous Charles Dicken...

games, poultry, prawn, great joints of meat, suckling-pigs, ...barrels of oysters, red-hot chestnuts, cherry-cheeked apples, juicy...

at this time, there was, there were very few public works to help the poor," a reality that Dickens understood well for the Cratch...

In five pages this paper examines how supernatural and ghosts were perceived by society during the 19th century in an analysis of ...

smaller house in Camden Town, London. The four-room house at 16 Bayham Street is supposedly the model for the Cratchits house" (An...

work in a factory. "Charles was deeply marked by these experiences. He rarely spoke of this time of his life" (Charles Dickens: Hi...

Emmas polar opposite. She has not been born to gentility, but has been raised to be so by the sponsorship of the Campbells. In ord...

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

- with particular emphasis placed upon people of the dominant white race. Slavery has constructed the interior life of African-Am...

etched in the hearts and minds of the mens affections they willfully toyed with. Estella is the quintessential cold bitch that vi...

truly know the characters from the book and as if their life and times are intertwined with your own. It is truly a miraculous ad...

emphasis on manufacture and engineering in that region which initiated his own interest in the subjects....

became blindly furious by regular stages" (Dickens 120). In other words, her behavior reflects o real emotion at all. Similarly, P...

In five pages this essay considers what blame should James and Charles assume for the Civil War in England....

Some of Ben Franklin's wise words about money and specifically about lending it to friends is compared/contrasted with what the Bi...

a greater aesthetic value (Sandler, 2002). The role photography would play in society is immense. Photography would be used to r...