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A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens and Social Strife

In 5 pages this paper examines the theme of social strife in this novel by Charles Dickens. There are 5 sources cited in the bi...

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

This tale by Charles Dickens and its Christmas philosophy representation in Western culture are discussed in 5 pages. There are 7...

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...

'Master and Man' Short Story by Leo Tolstoy

In five pages this paper discusses how the author's beliefs regarding death and Christianity are expressed in this short story by ...

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...

Bildunsroman in 'Great Expectations' and 'Jane Eyre'

In 6 pages, this essay discusses how the coming-of-age is presented in these novels by Charles Dickens and Charlotte Bronte, with ...

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...

The Signalman by Dickens

and the creation of tension tailor-made for this particular short story, Dickens effectively conjures up intense imagery that serv...

Literature and Philosophical Themes

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

Events and Characters in Hard Times by Charles Dickens and Past and Present by Thomas Carlyle

the growth of slums and a lack of social welfare which led Carlyle to criticise the leaders of society for their obsession with ma...

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...

Heartless Women in the Works of Henrik Ibsen and Charles Dickens

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

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 ...

Classic Literature and the Gothic Motif

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

A Criticism of Charles Dickens

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

Punishment and Prisons in England During the Victorian Age in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

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

Social Problems in Hard Times

Plant nothing else, and root out everything else... Stick to Facts" (Dickens 1). For Dickens, this was an atrocity of monumental ...

Hard Times by Charles Dickens and its Biblical Theme

this world are not well educated and that is seemingly due more to a lack of caring than to a lack of knowledge. Coketown is foc...

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...

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...

Hard Times by Charles Dickens and Dialect

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

Chapter One Significance of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

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

Satire in Hard Times

in which the employers basically had the ability to "starve" their employees back to work, on the employers terms. The 1850s in En...

Solving Edwin Drood's Mysterious Death

He must wonder to himself why someone like Drood, who doesnt even love the lovely Rosa, should get to marry her...

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...

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...

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...

Is Hedonism The Basis For The Best Life?

compensated for their time. This economic structure teaches children that nothing comes without fair exchange, and validates that...

How We Live & How We Feel About Dying

that she does not want to see him to go his death "not owning up to the part" that he played in death of his victim (Prejean 179)....

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...