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Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and Expectations Theme

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

Text Reading and Whether or Not It Can be Changed Through the Study of Literature

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

Bleak House by Charles Dickens, National Identity, and Language

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

Women as Viewed by Charles Dickens and Jane Austen

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

Literature and Philosophical Themes

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

Comparing Margaret Atwood Novels Alias Grace and The Handmaid's Tale

that there is always a tidy or satisfactory resolution to the womens dilemmas. In fact, in the case of the intentionally ambiguou...

Food and Drink from the Perspective of Dickens

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

A Christmas Carol - Two Critiques

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

The Use of Utilitarianism in Dickens' Hard Times

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

Comparison of Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz's The Divine Narcissus and Luis de Gongora's Polyphemus and Galatea

and transform his blood into a river, which flows down the sides of the volcano, Mt. Aetna, into the sea at Catana. De la Cruzs T...

Humanitism, Capitalism, and Adam Smith and Charles Dickens

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

The Characterization of Pip in Great Expectations

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 in Great Expectations

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

Society's Treatment of Women in Literature in an Analysis of Female Characters Daisy, Harriet, and Lucie

This essay consists of eleven pages and examines society's treatment of women in the female characterizations featured in the lite...

Evil in the World

In five pages this paper examines how evil exists in the world in a comparative analysis of Saint Augustine of Hippo's Free Will d...

The Characters of Arthur Clennam and His Mother in Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

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

Literature of the Victorian Age

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

A Critique of A Tale of Two Cities

The first estate was comprised of the clergy, the second group was the nobles and the third was made of the rest of the people....

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and its Social Criticism

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...

Gender Relations in A Tale of Two Cities

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...

Bleak House by Charles Dickens and the English Court System

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...

Does London Have a Split Personality?

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

Dickens/Utilitarianism & Hard Times

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

Social Worlds: Austen and Dickens

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...

Charles Dickens and His Life

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

Reason vs. Emotion in Dickens and Austen

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

Comparative Analysis of Evelyn Lau’s Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid and the Anonymously Written Go Ask Alice

she had no particular interest in helping or educating others. For Lau, her diary represented the ultimately self-expression her ...

Comparative Analysis of Characters Mark Antony and Caius Cassius in William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar

meant he was not "someone to take seriously" as a threat to his power (Derrick 14; McMurtry 41). Others seriously underestimate A...

Relevance of Secondary Literary Characters

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...

A Examination of Oliver Twist

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