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

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

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

researchers have dealt with over the course of time. To answer the question "Do basic building blocks of matter exist, and if so, ...

alone could carry the long swords (Dunn, 1977, Sellen, 2002). Dunns appreciation of some of the key elements of the classes explai...

for journalism and suspicious attitude towards unjust laws. His sharp ear for conversation helped him reveal characters through th...

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

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

rivals. In retrospect, many have said that Chaplin was the better director but some critics "consider Keatons work as less pretent...

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 ...

nearly 70 percent and that it can be seen to be directly related to the existence of the "criminal underclass" (pp. 34). He believ...

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...

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

work, but not nearly to the extent that hie was influenced by his wife. In fact, the influence of Macdonald, whom Mackintosh marr...

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

illustrating how misery is a product of human actions. This book can be said to have more dark overtones than those of some of h...

at Blakesware in Lambs mothers native county of Hertford (Ward and Waller, 2002). The business of London contrasted greatly with ...

her different from others and what is the significance of that difference? In general, Dickens takes little Nell and her grandfat...

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

freed black man and has just hopped onboard a slaving ship headed for Africa. The ships captain is a dwarf named Ebenezer Falcon, ...

head bowed to pray before meal time. In fact, if one were to walk into a room and shout, "Jesus Saves", the likely wise crack may ...

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...

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

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

is a machine for living in," he wrote. The machines he admired most were ocean liners, and his architecture spoke of sun and wind ...

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

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

One of the reasons for this is that Dickens expertly wove just about every emotion and every tale of human nature into this one gr...

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

nothing)" (The origin of species, 2005). But this was countered by "James Huttons uniformitarian theory of 1785 [which] envisione...