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- with particular emphasis placed upon people of the dominant white race. Slavery has constructed the interior life of African-Am...

Emmas polar opposite. She has not been born to gentility, but has been raised to be so by the sponsorship of the Campbells. In ord...

impoverished class lacked proper legal or parliamentary representation. It was a bitter indictment against a system dominated by ...

accountable. In one of his most memorable works, Great Expectations (1860-1861), Dickens tackled the social hypocrisy that was ru...

work in a factory. "Charles was deeply marked by these experiences. He rarely spoke of this time of his life" (Charles Dickens: Hi...

Dickens is an author who, for many, characterizes the Victorian literary era. He had first received public recognition as a newsp...

in which the employers basically had the ability to "starve" their employees back to work, on the employers terms. The 1850s in En...

133). Pips struggle to make sense of the inscription on his parents tombstones has been interpreted by some critics as his firs...

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

there would have been no new barrier between them--and followed the old man and woman down-stairs" (Dickens Chapter 3). In this...

education is still substantially elevated in contemporary culture. Aristotle, on the other hand, sees virtue as choice and so mora...

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

This Dickens tale is looked at as it relates to this single character but other characters are discussed as well. Gender is someth...

In five pages this paper considers how the socially conscious Dickens portrayed the poor in this and in other novels. Three sourc...

This Dickens work is discussed in respect to the role that symbolism plays. This literary technique is highlighted in the context ...

smaller house in Camden Town, London. The four-room house at 16 Bayham Street is supposedly the model for the Cratchits house" (An...

their reactions. For example, Josiah Bounderby is the mill-owner and principal villain in Hard Times. Bounderby is so unremittin...

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

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

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

is, the Victorian era, it becomes clear that Louise Mallard is a normal woman who loves her husband and will grieve for him, but w...

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

opening to Jacksons Lottery, as Jackson carefully underscores the normality of the day and how what is to take place is viewed as ...

opens minds, creating a more rounded person, knowing this process and appreciating whilst it is taking place also adds to the pro...

break his heart. What do you play, boy? asked Estella of myself, with the greatest disdain. Nothing but beggar my neighbour, miss....

so adept at writing about them (Daunton). In the following we see Dickens describe the conditions and environment of Jo: "It is a...

After two days with them, I felt sure I could stay with them forever. I remember the smells of their house, the ginger cookies,...

from thereon, looked different. She was no longer cute, but different. Other people did not seem to care that she looked different...

constant throughout history. The Prologue features the much-married Dame Alice, who is a shrewd manipulator of men who unabashed...