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barely notices when Florence enters the room. Dickens writes "They had been married ten years, and until this present day ...(they...

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

trade was the first world globalization effort, Corn insists on raising the question of Magellan. Other historians and commentator...

is Miss Havisham. He believes that she is funding his education so that he can become educated and then wealthy and then be worthy...

Madame Defarge. There is an exception however, for a few years back she did play the Wicked Queen in Snow White, which could perha...

in this short story depict them simply in neutral roles. Some of the female depictions in this story, however, at least hint at t...

a good daughter, nothing seems to change and life seems without hope." This person would likely not understand that the sufferi...

individual investor (retail brokerage and banking); institutional investor (large investors and companies); capital markets (trade...

none of the women in Gatsby are particularly likeable, but even so, the book retains its power. Daisy Buchanan Lets start with Da...

cultures, cities and towns that were, at the time, larger than many European cities that were of importance. His journey discusses...

wanted (in the unproblematic sense) was not really free, the kind of discrimination which allows us to put conditions on peoples m...

concept of disenchantment is related to what Taylor argues as the "the primacy of instrumental reason" (5). Essentially, Taylor i...

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...

disliked these anticipo payments. Much better that I should get behind in the rent, like everybody else, and be beholden to him" (...

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

about his troubled time and place" (Hair, 1986; 3). In this we see that Hair simply seems to desire to convey to the reader a hist...

doing whatever one wants, with no regard to law (Krause, 2000). If independence must be sacrificed in order to achieve political ...

been misrecognized for so long that they often feel that they are unworthy. "They have internalized a picture of their own inferio...

all of his lessons come into play and culminate to create a powerful epiphany. We note some of this in the following excerpt: "Spi...

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

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

and represents his coming of age as a painter, with the Anglo influence evident in the works "polish and refinement" (Parker, 1938...

of ever-growing interest. So, with great perseverance and untiring industry, he prospered" (Dickens NA). We are then presented ...

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

of money. Gradgrind is mortified, his familys reputation is destroyed and he realizes (though it has come at great cost) that his ...

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

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

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

learned quickly and by 1877, he had developed a reputation that earned him the respect of the Irish in Great Britain, so much so t...