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Great Expectations

It seems that no matter what biography you read about Dickens the primary point, in relationship to his childhood, was that he was...

Assignment in Expository Writing

challenging arguments facing many people today is explaining to their family that they are gay or lesbian. This is, for the major...

Ralph Waldo Emerson and Thomas Paine Compared

he was unhappy with the idea of being a businessman. Paine, with the soul of a revolutionary, left his small English village and e...

Classical Greek Poet Homer

The Odyssey. In his History, Herodotus (484-425 B.C.) came up with dates for the singer (400 years before my time-and no more than...

Social Critic Charles Dickens in Oliver Twist

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

Wilde's and Dickens' Ideas of Traditional Families

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 ...

Historical Themes in the Works of Charles Dickens

This paper evaluates a variety of works and how this author wrote in historical context. How Dickens wrote about education and ind...

Character Development of Thomas Hardy and Charles Dickens

In eight pages a comparison between the ways in which Hardy and Dickens create the versimilitude illusion through their characteri...

Edith Wharton, Charles Dickens, and Charlotte Bronte on Experience and Innocence

In 5 pages the themes of innocence and experience as they are depicted in these Victorian and post Victorian literary works The Ho...

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and Social Values

In 5 pages this paper discusses how social values are presented in this novel by Charles Dickens in a consideration of setting, po...

Charles Dickens and Feminism

In 5 pages this paper argues that Charles Dickens is not a feminist despite his portrayal of women in socially oppressive situatio...

Four Dickens' Characters Compared

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

Freud and Hard Times

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

Reason vs. Emotion in Dickens and Austen

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

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and the Importance of Expectations

In five pages Pip's expectations and their significance are examined in an analysis of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. Nin...

Social Discrimination in Hardy and Dickens

The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy and Great Expectations by Charles Dickens both deal in major part with discrimination. T...

Victorian Literature and Women

In five pages this paper discusses how social commentary during the Victorian Age was expressed through female characterizations i...

Interpretation According to Ronald Dworkin and Charles Darwin's Bleak House

In fifteen sources this paper discusses philosopher Ronald Dworkin's views on interpretation and offers a legal comparison between...

Comparing and Contrasting Dickens and Carlyle

The writer compares and contrasts the novels Sartor Resartus by Thomas Carlyle and Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens and argues tha...

Identity, Maturity and David Copperfield

This essay offers discussion of the issues maturity and identity in regards to "David Copperfield," the classic novel by Charles D...

Bildunsroman in 'Great Expectations' and 'Jane Eyre'

In 6 pages, this essay discusses how the coming-of-age is presented in these novels by Charles Dickens and Charlotte Bronte, with ...

'Master and Man' Short Story by Leo Tolstoy

In five pages this paper discusses how the author's beliefs regarding death and Christianity are expressed in this short story by ...

Bleak House by Charles Dickens and the Supernatural

In five pages this paper examines how supernatural and ghosts were perceived by society during the 19th century in an analysis of ...

British Literature and Issue of Class

pride, and vainer ties dissever, / And give herself to me forever" (Browning 1235). According to Professor Gerald McDaniel, the r...

Food and Drink from the Perspective of Dickens

games, poultry, prawn, great joints of meat, suckling-pigs, ...barrels of oysters, red-hot chestnuts, cherry-cheeked apples, juicy...

Hard Times by Charles Dickens and its Biblical Theme

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...

Solving Edwin Drood's Mysterious Death

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

Gender Relations in A Tale of Two Cities

world and symbolizes the ideal vision of a woman in a patriarchal world. This is why the embittered and lost man who is Carton lov...

The Use of Utilitarianism in Dickens' Hard Times

The idea of utilitarianism is one that addresses whether something is of utility, whether it can actually create something positiv...

Theme of Success in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

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