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Nancy in Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

In fourteen pages this paper presents a character analysis of the realistic character of Nancy featured in Oliver Twist by Charles...

Bildunsroman in 'Great Expectations' and 'Jane Eyre'

In 6 pages, this essay discusses how the coming-of-age is presented in these novels by Charles Dickens and Charlotte Bronte, with ...

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and the Importance of Expectations

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

Freud and Hard Times

In five pages the conduct of James Harthouse and Louisa Bounderby in the novel Hard Times by Charles Dickens is analyzed based upo...

Edith Wharton, Charles Dickens, and Charlotte Bronte on Experience and Innocence

In 5 pages the themes of innocence and experience as they are depicted in these Victorian and post Victorian literary works The Ho...

Primary Themes of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

has no heart, and is comfortable without it. We might say that Dickens is opposed to such an attitude in women, as Estrella recei...

Oliver Twist and the Comedic Voice

his fathers will by forcing his half-brother Oliver into crime" (Baxter). With this in mind we see that the story is truly dark...

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and Expectations Theme

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

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and its Social Criticism

Meckier 1993). This book can be said to have more dark overtones than those of some of his other novels. In most of his stories, o...

Bleak House by Charles Dickens and the English Court System

novel and helps us see some of the critical sarcasm which Dickens offers in the preface to his novel. In the preface to this nov...

Hard Times by Charles Dickens and Dialect

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

A Examination of Oliver Twist

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

Eight Works of Literary Fiction and the Influence of Social Position

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

Excerpts from Bleak House

my visitor, who was cold after her ride and looked hungry and who, our dinner being brought in, required some little assistance in...

The Life and Works of Charles Dickens

these experiences. He rarely spoke of this time of his life" (Charles Dickens: His Childhood). In an understatement perhaps, we ca...

Relevance of Secondary Literary Characters

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...

Punishment and Prisons in England During the Victorian Age in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

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

The Characters of Arthur Clennam and His Mother in Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

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

Dickens and His Life

would never come true" for his father was arrested and then sent off to prison for failing to pay a debt (Anonymous Charles Dicken...

True Love, Women's Desires, and 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

In five pages twelve lines of this famous tale are analyzed in terms of how it provides a true love commentary and represents an e...

Literature and Philosophical Themes

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

Classic Literature and the Gothic Motif

Clearly, these elements all preside in Jane Eyre and also in Bleak House. Combining the efforts of these books, we have the haunt...

Dickens/Utilitarianism & Hard Times

he is absolute appalled that Sissy does not know the scientific definition for "horse," and that his own children have been tempte...

Social Worlds: Austen and Dickens

because she often reads gothic novels and so her view of society is a bit askew. However, in the descriptions of her one can see t...

Does London Have a Split Personality?

explores the seamy side of city life. In fact, the novels central theme is the horrible treatment endured by the poor and those wh...

Reason vs. Emotion in Dickens and Austen

the same way, with the result that his daughter Louisa feels unfulfilled while his son Tom becomes completely self-interested. The...

Women in the Odyssey, Penelope’s Power

and the goddess shows this with her actions throughout the narrative. Therefore, examination of the Odyssey demonstrates that the ...

Charles Dickens and His Life

societys pressure. "It is impossible to read Great Expectations without sensing Dickenss presence in the book, without being awar...

Bleak House by Charles Dickens, National Identity, and Language

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

Text Reading and Whether or Not It Can be Changed Through the Study of Literature

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