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A Christmas Carol - Two Critiques

at this time, there was, there were very few public works to help the poor," a reality that Dickens understood well for the Cratch...

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and the Reality v. Illusion Concept

truly know the characters from the book and as if their life and times are intertwined with your own. It is truly a miraculous ad...

Charles Dickens' Great Expectations and Disillusionment

One of the main themes in this Dickens novel is that of disillusionment, and we see this theme emerge on many different levels wit...

Hard Times by Charles Dickens and the Significance of Landscape

This analysis of Hard Times by Charles Dickens focuses upon landscape's significance in five pages....

Victorian Literature and Women

In five pages this paper discusses how social commentary during the Victorian Age was expressed through female characterizations i...

Book Report on 3 Books

one down. It is a story of hope in a world where there is hunger and darkness. It is an uplifting book because Oliver goes through...

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...

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...

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck and its Social Commentary

The social commentary by author John Steinbeck in his novel The Grapes of Wrath is examined in five pages....

Walter Moseley, Toni Morrison, and Social Commentary

In five pages the social commentary featured in Walter Moseley's White Butterfly and Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye are contrasted...

Victorian England's Economy and A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

In a paper consisting of 5 pages Dickens' economic commentary as it is revealed in this novel is discussed. There are 4 sources c...

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...

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'...

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...

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...

Biological Determinism

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

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...

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...

Characters of Nancy and Jane Eyre Compared

In seven pages these female protagonists from Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist and Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre are contrasted and co...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

Critical Analysis: "Nicholas Nickleby"

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

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...