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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 ...

Eight Works of Literary Fiction and the Influence of Social Position

- with particular emphasis placed upon people of the dominant white race. Slavery has constructed the interior life of African-Am...

Dickens and His Life

would never come true" for his father was arrested and then sent off to prison for failing to pay a debt (Anonymous Charles Dicken...

Great Expectations

It seems that no matter what biography you read about Dickens the primary point, in relationship to his childhood, was that he was...

Charles Dickens and His Life

societys pressure. "It is impossible to read Great Expectations without sensing Dickenss presence in the book, without being awar...

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...

The Life and Works of Charles Dickens

these experiences. He rarely spoke of this time of his life" (Charles Dickens: His Childhood). In an understatement perhaps, we ca...

Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist Analyzed

city -- grew out of this traumatic childhood experience" (Hackenberg; Johnson). Interestingly enough, in relationship to Fagin,...

Charles Dickens' Tale of Two Cities and the Characterization of Madame Defarge

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

Charles Dickens' Great Expectations and the Character of Pip

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

Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities and Resurrection

to than I have ever known" (Dickens 351). V. Conclusion 1. Sums up prevalence of the theme of resurrection and its importance to ...

Industrialization and Charles Dickens' Hard Times

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

Narrative Voice in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol and Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights

and understood in many different ways. We are not only given one perspective but two that work together in different and powerful ...

Synopsis of Charles Dickens' Hard Times

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

Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities, France and England

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

Abused Child Florence in Charles Dickens' Dombey and Son

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

Character of Jo in Charles Dickens' Bleak House

after several of the detectives he knew from the local department. Dickens routinely, then, chooses those who are the most...

William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, and Epiphanies

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

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 ...

Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist

of this, more than likely, was due to the influence of modern industrialized society and the move from rural to urban settings, bu...

Paris and London in Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities

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

Charles Dickens' Great Expectations and the Themes of Money and Class

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

Charles Dickens' Great Expectations and Disillusionment

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

Charles Dickens' Hard Times

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 ...

Comparing Charles Dickens' Hard Times and Voltaire's Candide

was, historically speaking, the calm before the storm, and Voltaire seemed to sense what was coming. He was often entertaining ro...

Emotional Maturity and Independence in Charles Dickens' David Copperfield and Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre

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

Uses of Humor in Charles Dickens' Little Dorrit and Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson

pasta bars thats ferr shurr. To "that stone that Dante used to sit on" watching Beatrice pass by to get a piece of chestnut cake...

Analyzing Bleak House by Charles Dickens

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

Charles Dickens' Hard Times and Patriarchy

In twelve pages this paper examines how patriarchal concepts are expressed by characters featured in Hard Times, a novel by Charle...

Charles Dickens' Great Expectations and David Copperfield Characterizations

In 5 pages the characterizations of Pip and David are compared and contrasted. There are 3 bibliographic sources cited....