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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...

Analysis of Greek Funerary Statue

intended for this statue (Woodford, 1986). The initial response of this writer/tutor to the statue was that I was taken with the...

Chopin/The Awakening/Suicide as Closure

the beginning of the novel? Why does Edna not try to follow the same path as her artistic mentor, Mm. Reisz, who lives the indepen...

'Englishness' and the Occult in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

some contrasting views of Englishness and attitudes about colonialism in their respective uses of the occult/supernatural. One te...

Magdelena and Balthasar by Steven Ozmet and Religious Controversies

Redeemer" (Ozment 14). As a result, Magdalena and Balthasar not only put their faith in good health in the various medical remedi...

Differences in Gender in the Peasant Residences of Central Europe and Southeast Asia

tended to marry much earlier in Europe than in Asia. Both peasant groups seemed to have grown grain crops: rice in Asia and whea...

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens and Social Reform Mechanisms

a time of many contrasts. While many history books prefer to remember it as a time of self-help, entrepreneurial spirit, laissez-...

E.C. Deloria's Waterlily Analyzed

Dakota Sioux during the 19th century is as different a life from our current society as one could imagine. And yet, Deloria has t...

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the Conflict Between Man and God

up in a "freethought household" (Madigan 48) and her mother had already written about womens rights while her father "a noted Util...

British Imperialism and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

of it was wiped out during the 1800s and 1900s. Things Fall Apart is the story of Okonkwo, an ambitious...

Adolphe by Benjamin Constant

narrative. Eventually, however, he rejects her, and the pain of this separation results in her death. Instead of prospering, now t...

Willa Cather's O Pioneers! and Love

emotional release. This may be seen as giving the different types of love a balance. This book was published in 1913, a...

Social Principles Revealed in Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Emma, and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

with an ideal society of the time. "The novel focuses on the romantic affairs of the two sisters. When Marianne sprains her ank...

Late Nineteenth Social Darwinism, Realism, and Racism Commentary of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

and superstitious. Although Huck may not be racist himself, he no doubt has been raised in an environment of extremely racists ind...

The Parallels Between the Progressive Era and The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

the bosses, the police, the politicians, and a myriad of other players. Sinclair reveals a dream which is interlaced by theft, pr...

Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson and Plight of Native Americans

during the nineteenth century they had been regarded as little more than an obstacle in the American quest for land and its resour...

Enlightenment Representation in Candide by Voltaire

and war, which he portrays as contrary to all reason. In the eighteenth century, war was presented to the ordinary citizens as an ...

Nineteenth Century U.S. Labor

Workers included men, women and children. The fact that children worked in incredibly dangerous situations and conditions furthe...

'Absalom and Achitophel' by John Dryden and Honesty

17th century way of saying "God told him to do it." But one of Davids progeny stood out, this being the brave...

The Island of Doctor Moreau and The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

and destiny (Aubrey). While Darwin pictures humanity as consistently evolving toward more intelligence and reason, Huxleys take on...

19th Century US Labor Movement

16). The author goes on to talk about Jacksons Democratic party and the problems it has had. For instance, many policies associate...

Progress Disenchantment During the 19th Century

a weekend. Technology contributes to the state of constant activity that so many are used to and many elderly people remember a ti...

20th Century Educational Inequality

excel in society. Our schools are not meeting these goals. Part of the reason is an almost myopic concentration on equality in f...

Commedia del'Arte and Cycle Plays

Noah, for example, might exhort the men on the audience to establish control over their wives whilst Noahs wife would...

Louisa May Alcott's Little Women and Society

artist and a dutiful woman creates conflict and pushes the boundaries set by nineteenth-century American society" (Sparknotes). ...

The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

In five pages character analyses of Lucetta Templeman and Michael Henchard as featured in Thomas Hardy's 19th century novel are pr...

Gender Attitudes About Sex, Chastity, and Marriage in Samuel Richardson's Pamela and Daniel Defoe's Roxana

In nine pages the ways in which these novels reflected gender attitudes of the 18th century regarding chastity, sex, and marriage ...

Twenty First Century Analysis of The Awakening by Kate Chopin

In eight pages the twenty first century perspective is applied to this novel first published in 1899 in order to determine its mes...

Charles Dickens on Childhood

In seven pages the ways in which Dickens' portrays childhood during the 19th century in his classic novels Great Expectations, Oli...

La Religieuse by Denis Diderot

She pressed me in one place and then another. In a soft and low voice, she asked me to increase my efforts, and I did so." Again ...