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the same way, with the result that his daughter Louisa feels unfulfilled while his son Tom becomes completely self-interested. The...

that neither the federal government nor the states had any monies to pay for all of these duties. We didnt even have an actual Co...

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

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...

Emmas polar opposite. She has not been born to gentility, but has been raised to be so by the sponsorship of the Campbells. In ord...

view of reality that emphasizes a more Biblical approach to life. Through the "good" characters of the novel, principally Sissy, S...

Dickens is an author who, for many, characterizes the Victorian literary era. He had first received public recognition as a newsp...

in which the employers basically had the ability to "starve" their employees back to work, on the employers terms. The 1850s in En...

this world are not well educated and that is seemingly due more to a lack of caring than to a lack of knowledge. Coketown is foc...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

In ten pages this paper discusses the themes of suffering and evil as uncompromisingly depicted by Doctorow in his Western frontie...

In eight pages this paper examines how Dickens' critiqued Victorian industrialism in his novel and then evaluates his social contr...

This Dickens tale is looked at as it relates to this single character but other characters are discussed as well. Gender is someth...

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

In five pages the conduct of James Harthouse and Louisa Bounderby in the novel Hard Times by Charles Dickens is analyzed based upo...

In seven pages the ways in which Dickens' portrays childhood during the 19th century in his classic novels Great Expectations, Oli...

In six pages this essay considers how heroines love in each of these works which also discusses the social reflections of their ap...

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

In a paper consisting of 5 pages the transformations of protagonists in four works of Charles Dickens are compared in an examinati...

In five pages Terkel's text is the focus of this insightful book review....

In five pages the effects of rapid industrialization in 19th century England are examined within the context of Dickens' novel in ...

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

Charles Dickens' classic work is discussed in terms of characterization as well as setting. The work is discussed in historical co...

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