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Social Discrimination in Hardy and Dickens

The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy and Great Expectations by Charles Dickens both deal in major part with discrimination. T...

Original v. Contemporary Ending of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

for their one great chance. Dickens own sons are seen through the actions of characterization, demonstrating the authors exaspera...

Charles Dickens and Feminism

In 5 pages this paper argues that Charles Dickens is not a feminist despite his portrayal of women in socially oppressive situatio...

Four Dickens' Characters Compared

In a paper consisting of 5 pages the transformations of protagonists in four works of Charles Dickens are compared in an examinati...

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...

England, Education and Alfred the Great

skills were more highly valued. In addition, literacy was regarded as being equated with political and economic power: it was ther...

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...

Literary Critique: The "Ancient Mariner" and "Great Expectations"

brought there. Pip tells of this meeting in a calm voice, almost serene, but his powers of observation are acute. He describes th...

"Great Expectations" and Realism

in England, were something of a novelty, and indeed broke with narrative tradition in a number of compelling ways. One of the most...

A Look at Great Expectations in the Context of the Author's Life

1824-1827 he was a "day pupil at a school in London" (Cody). But the year in the blacking factory "haunted him all of his life" t...

Hard Times by Charles Dickens' and Impact of Rapid Industrialization

In five pages the effects of rapid industrialization in 19th century England are examined within the context of Dickens' novel in ...

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and Characterization

In a paper consisting of 5 pages rounded characters versus flat characters are considered within the context of Dicken's novel as ...

Industry and Empire by E.J. Hobsbawm

In six pages Hobsbawm's argument that Great Britain was beginning the decline of its empire at the height of its economic powers d...

Concepts of Questing and Conforming in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

A conceptual analysis of these English novels focuses upon their representation of questing and conforming through such convention...

Identity of Pip's Benefactor Revealed in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

In five pages Chapter XXXIX of Dickens' novel is examined in the text passage that reveals the convict Magwitch to be the financia...

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and the Theme of Class Consciousness

In 9 pages this paper considers Dickens' views on class consciousness as reflected in the novel that reveals much about Victorian ...

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

In seven pages the transformation of Pip throughout the course of the novel is chronicled. Five sources are cited in the bibliogr...

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and Social Values

In 5 pages this paper discusses how social values are presented in this novel by Charles Dickens in a consideration of setting, po...

Past Theme in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

One of the reasons for this is that Dickens expertly wove just about every emotion and every tale of human nature into this one gr...

Great Expectations and Charles Dickens

conditions within the factories were terrible. Unfortunately, it can be said that they same disgraces that Dickens saw during his ...

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and the Character of Pip

those who are less fortunate. When Pip sees a group of starving and shackled convicts, he is appalled by their plight. One convi...

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and the Significance of the Work Concept

the boy to play at the wealthy Miss Havershams mansion. Her uppity niece Estella immediately dismissed the blue-collar boy as com...

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Dickens appears to introduce Charles Darnays mother for the sole purpose of establishing her as the source for Darnays personal in...

Great Britain During the Victorian Age and the Roles of Women

police and the criminal justice system as well as voluntary workers and professional helpers (van Dijk, 2002). Prior to 1970, v...

Chapter Overview of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

of the novel and are mentioned because of their value in understanding the conflict between Pip and Estella. Chapter 1 Dicke...

Chapter One Significance of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

133). Pips struggle to make sense of the inscription on his parents tombstones has been interpreted by some critics as his firs...

Free Market Economy and Great Britain During the Victorian Era

was a time of free trade. This was a theory of self regulation; this can be seen as an optimistic idea. The invisible hand was t...

Analysis of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

shining armor since he has redesigned his house to look like a castle. However, he does not bring this kind and generous nature in...

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...

England's Use of Propaganda During the First World War

In five pages this paper discusses how propaganda was used by England during World War I. Ten sources are cited in the bibliograp...