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In 5 pages this paper argues that Charles Dickens is not a feminist despite his portrayal of women in socially oppressive situatio...

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

In five pages the labeling of creative artists and its contradictions are considered in a comparative and contrasting analysis of ...

pride, and vainer ties dissever, / And give herself to me forever" (Browning 1235). According to Professor Gerald McDaniel, the r...

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

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...

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

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

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

was many years ago. Hadleyburg was the most honest and upright town in all the region round about. It had kept that reputation uns...

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

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 ...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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