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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...

For example, when Oliver is arrested, he is never allowed to state his case or to speak, for that matter. Oliver becomes sick when...

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...

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

of the novel and are mentioned because of their value in understanding the conflict between Pip and Estella. Chapter 1 Dicke...

Dickens appears to introduce Charles Darnays mother for the sole purpose of establishing her as the source for Darnays personal in...

way the housekeeper Nelly Dean cares for generations of motherless children of the intertwined Linton and Earnshaw families, compa...

became blindly furious by regular stages" (Dickens 120). In other words, her behavior reflects o real emotion at all. Similarly, P...

some contrasting views of Englishness and attitudes about colonialism in their respective uses of the occult/supernatural. One te...

do not possess social status, a reality that makes for a tragedy waiting to happen in her efforts to match Harriet with someone be...

etched in the hearts and minds of the mens affections they willfully toyed with. Estella is the quintessential cold bitch that vi...

truly know the characters from the book and as if their life and times are intertwined with your own. It is truly a miraculous ad...

her, for he is consumed with desire and love despite his weaknesses and his inadequacies. He will, in essence, do anything for the...