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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 ...

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

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

of the novel and are mentioned because of their value in understanding the conflict between Pip and Estella. Chapter 1 Dicke...

family and they come to be grateful for what she has done for them" (ClassicNotes). In the end of the story we are told, by Dicken...

shining armor since he has redesigned his house to look like a castle. However, he does not bring this kind and generous nature in...

of ever-growing interest. So, with great perseverance and untiring industry, he prospered" (Dickens NA). We are then presented ...

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...

all of his lessons come into play and culminate to create a powerful epiphany. We note some of this in the following excerpt: "Spi...

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...

inflexible educational system is accurate in his attempt to reveal his own educational experience and also does well in his attemp...

133). Pips struggle to make sense of the inscription on his parents tombstones has been interpreted by some critics as his firs...

of money. Gradgrind is mortified, his familys reputation is destroyed and he realizes (though it has come at great cost) that his ...

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

and represents his coming of age as a painter, with the Anglo influence evident in the works "polish and refinement" (Parker, 1938...

been misrecognized for so long that they often feel that they are unworthy. "They have internalized a picture of their own inferio...

doing whatever one wants, with no regard to law (Krause, 2000). If independence must be sacrificed in order to achieve political ...

is a machine for living in," he wrote. The machines he admired most were ocean liners, and his architecture spoke of sun and wind ...

barely notices when Florence enters the room. Dickens writes "They had been married ten years, and until this present day ...(they...

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

after several of the detectives he knew from the local department. Dickens routinely, then, chooses those who are the most...

freed black man and has just hopped onboard a slaving ship headed for Africa. The ships captain is a dwarf named Ebenezer Falcon, ...

head bowed to pray before meal time. In fact, if one were to walk into a room and shout, "Jesus Saves", the likely wise crack may ...

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...

how they were hindered and helped by his educational options. Pip, like Dickens, encounters a great deal of frustration with the e...

work, but not nearly to the extent that hie was influenced by his wife. In fact, the influence of Macdonald, whom Mackintosh marr...

illustrating how misery is a product of human actions. This book can be said to have more dark overtones than those of some of h...

presented with a picture of London where Mr. Darnay understands that he needed to work for what he got. "He had expected labour, a...

her different from others and what is the significance of that difference? In general, Dickens takes little Nell and her grandfat...