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

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

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...

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...

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...

researchers have dealt with over the course of time. To answer the question "Do basic building blocks of matter exist, and if so, ...

One of the main themes in this Dickens novel is that of disillusionment, and we see this theme emerge on many different levels wit...

nearly 70 percent and that it can be seen to be directly related to the existence of the "criminal underclass" (pp. 34). He believ...

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

rivals. In retrospect, many have said that Chaplin was the better director but some critics "consider Keatons work as less pretent...

does not love and who is better than twenty years older than her. Then, his son goes into the future son-in-laws bank and manages ...

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...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

between people and between the individual and society in general. These contrasts are all intricately detailed in the work of Cha...

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

those who are less fortunate. When Pip sees a group of starving and shackled convicts, he is appalled by their plight. One convi...

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

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

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...

society." With his literary weapon, Dickens took direct aim, launching a vitriolic attack on the legal, political and socioeconom...