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The Kitchen in Wuthering Heights

and especially Heathcliff, were not of the class of people who would be allowed in such an area. But, it was generally understood ...

Absence of Mothers in Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte and Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

way the housekeeper Nelly Dean cares for generations of motherless children of the intertwined Linton and Earnshaw families, compa...

Social Reflections in Hard Times by Charles Dickens and Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

In five pages this paper contrasts the social reflections contained within Hard Times and Sense and Sensibility. Three sources ar...

Biological Determinism

In three page this paper examines biological determinism in a brief overview that references Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist. ...

A Look at Characterization in Hard Times

Charles Dickens' classic work is discussed in terms of characterization as well as setting. The work is discussed in historical co...

David Lean's Film Version of Great Expectations and Confusing Appearances for Reality

In five pages this paper considers the 1946 film adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel by director David Lean in a discussion of ho...

Protagonist David Copperfield

In five pages the protagonist in Charles Dickens' novel is examined in terms of his childishness and self centered ways. There ar...

World Perceptions of the Victorian Era

In five pages this paper discusses how Victorian Era individuals perceived the world in a comparative analysis of Angela Thirkell'...

Victorian Literature and Class Consciousness

In 5 pages the Victorian class consciousness that reached a pinnacle during the mid to late 19th century is examined as it is refl...

Capitalism, Humanitism, Charles Dickens and Adam Smith 2

In five pages the relationship between capitalism and humanitism are examined through Charles Dickens' Hard Times and Adam Smith's...

Social Commentary of Charles Dickens

the influence of modern industrialized society and the move from rural to urban settings, but it can also be said that this testin...

Oliver Twist and Historical Context

the tender age of 10 to help support the family by pasting labels on bottles of shoe polish at the Warren Blacking Company.5 The r...

Great Expectations: Realist and Non-Realist

one hand. (McAllister 158). Such an illustration is incredibly focused in realist tradition, as Pip struggles to develop himself...

Love's Power in A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

love but rather sees it as simply a different option he is being offered in terms of continuing to love her and be devoted to her....

Jewish and Christian Holiday Traditions

celebrate the holidays. It argues that each celebration is meaningful to those of that faith, but when "adopted" by the other, bec...

Critical Analysis: "Nicholas Nickleby"

of the Fortunes, Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings and Complete Career of the Nickleby Family, edited by Boz" (Hamilton). Hamil...

Stylistic Analysis/Dickens' Hard Times

to be "shockingly revolutionary" (Sorensen 12). This feature of his work is considered today to be related to be a reflection of...

Hard Times by Dickens

lure or seduce Louise away from her husband. Mrs. Sparsit seems to truly enjoy herself in this job, envisioning the staircase of s...

The Pastoral in Orwell and Dickens

moved out of reach. His journeys across the surface of England are overwhelmed by the difficultly of achieving pastoral consolatio...

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens and Social Reform Mechanisms

a time of many contrasts. While many history books prefer to remember it as a time of self-help, entrepreneurial spirit, laissez-...

Realism and Charles Dickens

Harmons son enter the picture, hiding his identity, in order to watch the woman his father said he was to marry. And, to make it e...

Themes of Positive Social Change in Dickens and Eliot

of one of the children we hear about that is constantly abused as a child, but seems to understand what responsibility is, what lo...

Victorian Women's Fallen Status in the Works of Charles Dickens

values, and sin versus redemption. The cycle of Pips life illustrates how Pip went from being an innocent boy, into being an arrog...

From Disillusionment to Values in Great Expectations Character of Pip

the ideals of Dickenss time, in which Victorian societal values were to be accepted as the best values ever to come into existence...

Four Classic Literary Works and Human Nature

linked to societal ideas of the early eighteenth century as to what constituted a "proper" middle class English life. This is evid...

Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, T.S. Eliot's 'The Mill on the Floss' and Narrative Perspective

had a daughter who loved him"; however, Maggie received no such indications either from her father" or from Tom--the two idols of ...

Bram Stoker's Dracula, Charlotte Bronte's Villette, and the Theme of Domesticity

woman likes her surroundings and it is clear that she likes them orderly. A young woman who was not immersed somehow in the idea o...

Literature and the Nature of Good vs. Evil

goading and nagging, contributed to Macbeths downfall; however, when one examines the play that the main impetus to Macbeths actio...

Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, and Love Relationships

and feels that he usurped his place in the family. Therefore, when Hindley torments Heathcliff when he gets the opportunity. Cathy...

Love Affairs in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights

women are intrigued with Darcy and the potential marriage material he represents, however he is nonplussed by what he considers to...