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'The Poor Relation's Story' by Charles Dickens and What It's Like to be an Outsider

persona, observing early in the narrative, "He was very reluctant to take precedence of so many respected members of the family, b...

Literature of T.S. Eliot, Charles Dickens, and Mary Shelley

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

Chapter Eight of Bleak House by Charles Dickens

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

A Criticism of Charles Dickens

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

Racism in Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain and Classism in Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

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 ...

Sissy and Louisa in Hard Times by Charles Dickens

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...

Fate in Bleak House by Charles Dickens

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

Literary Overview of 'A Tale of Two Cities' by Charles Dickens

the commoners, Darnay renounces his title to the Evremonde Estate and goes back to England to live. He proposes to Lucie and she a...

Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens and Architectural Dimension

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

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...

William Makepeace Thackeray and Charles Dickens

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...

Historical Accuracy of Hard Times by Charles Dickens

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

Christmas and A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

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...

Heroism in A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

obviously keenly intelligent, and it is clear that, if he applied himself, he could have achieved any goal to which he might have ...

Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens

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

Characterization in Hard Times by Charles Dickens

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

Structure of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

However, shortly thereafter, they are sent to debtors prison and David sees his chance to escape the oppressive life. He runs to h...

Charles Dickens Bleak House and Elements of Mystery

Carstone, to attempt to solve the generations-long Chancery suit of Jarndyce and Jarndyce (Dickens). There is little that is myste...

Hard Times by Charles Dickens and the Lack of Hidden Meanings

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

The Writing Life of Charles Dickens

for journalism and suspicious attitude towards unjust laws. His sharp ear for conversation helped him reveal characters through th...

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...

Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens and Memory

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

Wilde's and Dickens' Ideas of Traditional Families

the world. This may be a critical look, on the part of Wilde, at the realities of the traditional family which presumes it is the ...

Reality and Disguise in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

from such a cultured youth. This is a very symbolic disguise and one that establishes how Huck is searching for his identity throu...

2 Articles' Evaluated

the original house, which is far better suited for raising the children (MacLean et al, 2002). Protection under British and...

Industrialization in Hard Times

Industrialism as it existed in the time of the author is discussed in the context of Dickens' classic novel Hard Times. The proble...

The Developing Physical Therapist

5 pages and 2 sources. This paper provides an overview of the work and educational expectations of an individual seeking a career...

Theories on the Advancement of Knowledge

In this five page paper the author questions whether the many advancements that have been made in knowledge are the result of evol...

An Overview of the Expectations Surrounding the Implementation of the First Amendment

situation arising under the new constitution. Correspondingly, the original intent in framing the first amendment lay in prohibit...

Literary Considerations of Power Abuses

In this paper consisting of six pages the realistic depiction of abuses in regards to imperialism are in Voltaire's Candide, Remar...