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Essays 211 - 240
In five pages this paper contrasts the social reflections contained within Hard Times and Sense and Sensibility. Three sources ar...
In six pages the ways in which the political economy of Great Britain is attacked in these works are compared along with the socia...
persona, observing early in the narrative, "He was very reluctant to take precedence of so many respected members of the family, b...
them" (Trbic, 2005). At the same time there was a very powerful visual style that was insistence on losing the "polite look of his...
children, worshiped their husbands, and esteemed it a holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals and grow wings as ministe...
heartlessness of the industrialist, Bounderby, against the humanity and goodness of one of his textile workers, Stephen Blackpool....
Several biographies are compared and contrasted in this essay that focuses on two books. An additional book is also reviewed in th...
This 6 page paper explores the status of women in the Victorian era by examining the way they are presented in three Hardy novels,...
funds have been consumed by legal fees. Esther also learns that Tom Jarndyce, the former owner of Bleak House, after coping with t...
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...
suggests, Gaskell specifically departs from the Victorian middle-class sensibility that equated decency with cleanliness. In doing...
impoverished class lacked proper legal or parliamentary representation. It was a bitter indictment against a system dominated by ...
as well. Greed and ambition get in the way of the characters doing what is right, and innocent children become victims of a syste...
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...
In five pages this paper considers how the socially conscious Dickens portrayed the poor in this and in other novels. Three sourc...
- Thomas Gradgrind, Sr. Even his name, which sounds like a derivative of "grindstone," has significance. Gradgrind was not only t...
that tended to see women in a strictly stereotypical fashion. The following examination of Charlotte Brontes life and her mast...
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 ...
criticism of Victorian institutions as they dramatize the results of Britains Poor Law, which was passed in the early nineteenth c...
This 6 page essay focuses on the characters Mrs. Pardiggle and Mrs. Jellyby. 2 sources....
This paper evaluates a variety of works and how this author wrote in historical context. How Dickens wrote about education and ind...
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...
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...
her intellectualism, Bertha is a victim of her own sexual desires. Bronte tried to provide a useful guide to women of her time in ...
for journalism and suspicious attitude towards unjust laws. His sharp ear for conversation helped him reveal characters through th...
emphasized. Harker is clearly in foreign territory. This point is even emphasized by the Count who tells Harker, "We are in Trans...
Hard Times. Coketown as it appears in Dickens Hard Times, is also painted as a rather dismal environment and in fact, some...