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the ideals of Dickenss time, in which Victorian societal values were to be accepted as the best values ever to come into existence...

values, and sin versus redemption. The cycle of Pips life illustrates how Pip went from being an innocent boy, into being an arrog...

had a daughter who loved him"; however, Maggie received no such indications either from her father" or from Tom--the two idols of ...

1824-1827 he was a "day pupil at a school in London" (Cody). But the year in the blacking factory "haunted him all of his life" t...

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

the boy to play at the wealthy Miss Havershams mansion. Her uppity niece Estella immediately dismissed the blue-collar boy as com...

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

one hand. (McAllister 158). Such an illustration is incredibly focused in realist tradition, as Pip struggles to develop himself...

In seven pages these female protagonists from Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist and Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre are contrasted and co...

in England, were something of a novelty, and indeed broke with narrative tradition in a number of compelling ways. One of the most...

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

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 ...

Harmons son enter the picture, hiding his identity, in order to watch the woman his father said he was to marry. And, to make it e...

therefore, is a nonentity in all ways that do not pertain to business (Adrian, 1984). Dickens uses the interior of his home to con...

kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by o...

conditions within the factories were terrible. Unfortunately, it can be said that they same disgraces that Dickens saw during his ...

of one of the children we hear about that is constantly abused as a child, but seems to understand what responsibility is, what lo...

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

a time of many contrasts. While many history books prefer to remember it as a time of self-help, entrepreneurial spirit, laissez-...

those who are less fortunate. When Pip sees a group of starving and shackled convicts, he is appalled by their plight. One convi...

all intents and purposes, Ebeneezer Scrooge was extremely narcissistic, self-absorbed, vain and uncaring. According to the origina...

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

away. He stands as a man of a higher social class who has integrity. His mother, however, represents all that is bad in the upper ...

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

the tender age of 10 to help support the family by pasting labels on bottles of shoe polish at the Warren Blacking Company.5 The r...

unfortunate accident, and they do run into the notorious Misfit. Both the grandmother and the Misfit are concerned with the quest...

inherent biases. The questions is really are organizations blind? To start considering whether organizations are blind the concep...

Before the last vote took place there was an intervention where the voters were asked to think about the consequences of the actio...

his mother. Sheppard fails to see the depth of the boys grief, and Norton hangs himself in despair. His suicide is an attempt to b...

indeed, mothers and fathers may wrongly believe that some children are old enough to both understand and accept the concept of div...