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

societys pressure. "It is impossible to read Great Expectations without sensing Dickenss presence in the book, without being awar...

In seven pages capitalism's development is examined in terms of humanitism's impact with discourses of Adam Smith, Charles Dickens...

This essay looks at representative works of William Blake, Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde in relation to the eras in which they w...

This essay offers discussion of the issues maturity and identity in regards to "David Copperfield," the classic novel by Charles D...

Pip is a character in this Charles Dickens classic. His role in the work is the focus of attention in this six page paper that inc...

Friendship is often the focus of attention by novelists as characters interact with one another. This is the case in this classic ...

This character is contemplated as this Charles Dickens work is carefully evaluated. Various details are relayed about the characte...

notably Charles Dickens, Moliere, and Voltaire - had decidedly different and less heroic definitions of the middle class in their ...

It seems that no matter what biography you read about Dickens the primary point, in relationship to his childhood, was that he was...

This essay is on Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. The writer looks at the role of educ...

attitudes that he has embraced have robbed his life of meaning and value. The ghosts remind him of his past and the choices that h...

opens minds, creating a more rounded person, knowing this process and appreciating whilst it is taking place also adds to the pro...

so adept at writing about them (Daunton). In the following we see Dickens describe the conditions and environment of Jo: "It is a...

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

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

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

education is still substantially elevated in contemporary culture. Aristotle, on the other hand, sees virtue as choice and so mora...

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

his fathers will by forcing his half-brother Oliver into crime" (Baxter). With this in mind we see that the story is truly dark...

break his heart. What do you play, boy? asked Estella of myself, with the greatest disdain. Nothing but beggar my neighbour, miss....

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...

Meckier 1993). This book can be said to have more dark overtones than those of some of his other novels. In most of his stories, o...

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...

accountable. In one of his most memorable works, Great Expectations (1860-1861), Dickens tackled the social hypocrisy that was ru...

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

my visitor, who was cold after her ride and looked hungry and who, our dinner being brought in, required some little assistance in...

these experiences. He rarely spoke of this time of his life" (Charles Dickens: His Childhood). In an understatement perhaps, we ca...