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This paper evaluates a variety of works and how this author wrote in historical context. How Dickens wrote about education and ind...

In five pages this paper considers how the socially conscious Dickens portrayed the poor in this and in other novels. Three sourc...

- Thomas Gradgrind, Sr. Even his name, which sounds like a derivative of "grindstone," has significance. Gradgrind was not only t...

only to make the reader see. A novelist of course is supposed to show and not tell. Through showing the reader the story, a moral ...

This 6 page essay focuses on the characters Mrs. Pardiggle and Mrs. Jellyby. 2 sources....

criticism of Victorian institutions as they dramatize the results of Britains Poor Law, which was passed in the early nineteenth c...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

quite clear that Edith has just cause to feel alienated from her husband and her marriage from its inception. In the first half of...

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...

heartlessness of the industrialist, Bounderby, against the humanity and goodness of one of his textile workers, Stephen Blackpool....

Several biographies are compared and contrasted in this essay that focuses on two books. An additional book is also reviewed in th...

In six pages the ways in which the political economy of Great Britain is attacked in these works are compared along with the socia...

The theme of common folk and the individual is explored in Charles Dicken's classics. A Tale of Two Cities is discussed in respect...

Education is discussed in this general analysis of this classic work. Mr. Gradgrind is a character given much attention in this th...

In five pages this paper contrasts the social reflections contained within Hard Times and Sense and Sensibility. Three sources ar...

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

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