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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 ...

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...

therefore, is a nonentity in all ways that do not pertain to business (Adrian, 1984). Dickens uses the interior of his home to con...

their reactions. For example, Josiah Bounderby is the mill-owner and principal villain in Hard Times. Bounderby is so unremittin...

the novel is laid in the first five paragraphs of Chapter 1. The opening paragraph reads almost like a newspaper article (Dickens...

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...

Hard Times. Coketown as it appears in Dickens Hard Times, is also painted as a rather dismal environment and in fact, some...

the poets compositional strategy. She is one of Chaucers best-known and most discussed characters, primarily because she challenge...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

entertainment or that Chaucer was simply commenting on the humorous characters and times which he experienced during his lifetime....

their vital supply of cavalry ponies" and Taihe and those who had come before her were also vital in the maintenance of this frien...

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

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...

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

matter) of making any kind of respectable marriage. Yet she somehow manages to allow Genji into her heart. The lady, howev...

of Solomon and his many wives to basically justify her own marriages. Thus, we can see her as the devil who uses Scripture to suit...

are very important elements in a romantic novel. There is also the woman who loves Frankenstein without question. She is, of cou...

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...

could think of was his own breath, and then "Peace, he thought, and as quickly as the thought shaped itself, peace left him" (Shep...