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A conceptual analysis of these English novels focuses upon their representation of questing and conforming through such convention...

Several biographies are compared and contrasted in this essay that focuses on two books. An additional book is also reviewed in th...

These ribald stories featured in The Canterbury Tales and the class conflicts they represent are discussed in this paper consistin...

contends that, "Regional variations in divorce law were more pronounced on an east-west axis than a north-south one."3 For instan...

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...

the boy to play at the wealthy Miss Havershams mansion. Her uppity niece Estella immediately dismissed the blue-collar boy as com...

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

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

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

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

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

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

artistic and mathematical minds. Or it could indicate that architecture has its share of frauds like every other field of industry...

shining armor since he has redesigned his house to look like a castle. However, he does not bring this kind and generous nature in...

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...

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...

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

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

cases out of ten," the child dies from one cause or another, such as starvation, illness or neglect. However, Oliver survives, and...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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 ...