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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...

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

society." With his literary weapon, Dickens took direct aim, launching a vitriolic attack on the legal, political and socioeconom...

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...

based on the use of economic knowledge and ideas combined with the use of accepted economic indicators. If we consider the article...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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...

basis for mapping the entire cognitive development of childhood. While this framework is theoretical, it has been verified in stud...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

artistic and mathematical minds. Or it could indicate that architecture has its share of frauds like every other field of industry...

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

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...

In ten pages this paper discusses the themes of suffering and evil as uncompromisingly depicted by Doctorow in his Western frontie...

increased 49% over two years, well ahead of sales level increases (Byrnes et al, 2007). Therefore, the main problems for Dell ar...