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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...
- Thomas Gradgrind, Sr. Even his name, which sounds like a derivative of "grindstone," has significance. Gradgrind was not only t...
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 ...
This 6 page essay focuses on the characters Mrs. Pardiggle and Mrs. Jellyby. 2 sources....
In six pages a character analysis of Esther Summerson is presented within the context of Dickens' novel. Eight sources are cited ...
society." With his literary weapon, Dickens took direct aim, launching a vitriolic attack on the legal, political and socioeconom...
criticism of Victorian institutions as they dramatize the results of Britains Poor Law, which was passed in the early nineteenth c...
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...
the commoners, Darnay renounces his title to the Evremonde Estate and goes back to England to live. He proposes to Lucie and she a...
artistic and mathematical minds. Or it could indicate that architecture has its share of frauds like every other field of industry...
as well. Greed and ambition get in the way of the characters doing what is right, and innocent children become victims of a syste...
impoverished class lacked proper legal or parliamentary representation. It was a bitter indictment against a system dominated by ...
quite clear that Edith has just cause to feel alienated from her husband and her marriage from its inception. In the first half of...
the growth of slums and a lack of social welfare which led Carlyle to criticise the leaders of society for their obsession with ma...
her different from others and what is the significance of that difference? In general, Dickens takes little Nell and her grandfat...
for journalism and suspicious attitude towards unjust laws. His sharp ear for conversation helped him reveal characters through th...
therefore, is a nonentity in all ways that do not pertain to business (Adrian, 1984). Dickens uses the interior of his home to con...
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 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...
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 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...
Education is discussed in this general analysis of this classic work. Mr. Gradgrind is a character given much attention in this th...
persona, observing early in the narrative, "He was very reluctant to take precedence of so many respected members of the family, b...