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Essays 181 - 210
Scrooge is the quintessential business owner of the nineteenth century, at least in the opinion of Charles Dickens. He views the ...
The theme of common folk and the individual is explored in Charles Dicken's classics. A Tale of Two Cities is discussed in respect...
In a paper consisting of 5 pages Dickens' economic commentary as it is revealed in this novel is discussed. There are 4 sources c...
In six pages the ways in which the political economy of Great Britain is attacked in these works are compared along with the socia...
In five pages this paper considers how the socially conscious Dickens portrayed the poor in this and in other novels. Three sourc...
- Thomas Gradgrind, Sr. Even his name, which sounds like a derivative of "grindstone," has significance. Gradgrind was not only t...
This 6 page essay focuses on the characters Mrs. Pardiggle and Mrs. Jellyby. 2 sources....
criticism of Victorian institutions as they dramatize the results of Britains Poor Law, which was passed in the early nineteenth c...
In six pages a character analysis of Esther Summerson is presented within the context of Dickens' novel. Eight sources are cited ...
only to make the reader see. A novelist of course is supposed to show and not tell. Through showing the reader the story, a moral ...
However, shortly thereafter, they are sent to debtors prison and David sees his chance to escape the oppressive life. He runs to h...
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...
their reactions. For example, Josiah Bounderby is the mill-owner and principal villain in Hard Times. Bounderby is so unremittin...
the novel is laid in the first five paragraphs of Chapter 1. The opening paragraph reads almost like a newspaper article (Dickens...
her pretty brown hair. Your own, one day, my dear, and you will use it well. Let me see you play cards with this boy" (Dickens Cha...
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...
obviously keenly intelligent, and it is clear that, if he applied himself, he could have achieved any goal to which he might have ...
therefore, is a nonentity in all ways that do not pertain to business (Adrian, 1984). Dickens uses the interior of his home to con...
Education is discussed in this general analysis of this classic work. Mr. Gradgrind is a character given much attention in this th...
This state of affairs was the order of the day in that era, and it was this sad setting that added to the problems of every day li...
In seven pages Dickens' differing depiction of the French Revolution in this novel through uses of characters as archetypes and me...
Several biographies are compared and contrasted in this essay that focuses on two books. An additional book is also reviewed in th...
heartlessness of the industrialist, Bounderby, against the humanity and goodness of one of his textile workers, Stephen Blackpool....
In five pages this paper contrasts the social reflections contained within Hard Times and Sense and Sensibility. Three sources ar...
as well. Greed and ambition get in the way of the characters doing what is right, and innocent children become victims of a syste...
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...
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 ...
impoverished class lacked proper legal or parliamentary representation. It was a bitter indictment against a system dominated by ...