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

he wants more from life, he begins to have great expectations. Later in the story he is given the opportunity to become educated...

opens minds, creating a more rounded person, knowing this process and appreciating whilst it is taking place also adds to the pro...

so adept at writing about them (Daunton). In the following we see Dickens describe the conditions and environment of Jo: "It is a...

his fathers will by forcing his half-brother Oliver into crime" (Baxter). With this in mind we see that the story is truly dark...

trade as well (Thomas Hardy). However, Hardy was very much his mothers son, and shared her love of Latin poetry (Thomas Hardy). ...

break his heart. What do you play, boy? asked Estella of myself, with the greatest disdain. Nothing but beggar my neighbour, miss....

are portrayed in this story range from shepherds to artisans, and in this way Hardy stays true to the types of characters that wou...

novel and helps us see some of the critical sarcasm which Dickens offers in the preface to his novel. In the preface to this nov...

He must wonder to himself why someone like Drood, who doesnt even love the lovely Rosa, should get to marry her...

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

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

and his wife wish to send their daughter Tess to the family mansion in hopes of winning the heart of a prominent dUrberville heir....

above her on the social ladder, Sophy accepts him when he proposes marriage. She marries, not from love, but more from a standpoin...

was no more than the commonest feller in the parish... and how long hev this news about me been knowed, Pason Tringham?" (Hardy, 1...

and many of the traditional roles played by men and women in society and is famous for one of his quotes "Men at most differ as He...

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

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...

work in a factory. "Charles was deeply marked by these experiences. He rarely spoke of this time of his life" (Charles Dickens: Hi...

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...

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

accountable. In one of his most memorable works, Great Expectations (1860-1861), Dickens tackled the social hypocrisy that was ru...

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

my visitor, who was cold after her ride and looked hungry and who, our dinner being brought in, required some little assistance in...

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

suggests that judges frequently use ethnic stereotypes and "racialized attributions to fill in the knowledge gaps created by limit...

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

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

explores the seamy side of city life. In fact, the novels central theme is the horrible treatment endured by the poor and those wh...

he is absolute appalled that Sissy does not know the scientific definition for "horse," and that his own children have been tempte...