Charles Dickens Essay Examples Page 8

Towards to end of the second chapter the reader is able to understand more about Dickens’ views on education. This is primarily through Sissy Jupe. She is clearly a very free willed child, who feels able to speak her mind and will not be easily suppressed. She claims that because she is ‘very fond of…

In chapter 2, “Murdering the Innocents” Dickens uses the title- a quotation from Matthew 2:16- ironically as it describes the attitude and actions of the school, “murdering” the children’s imagination and creativity. The chapter starts with the speaker from chapter whose name is “Thomas Gradgrind. ” He describes the character’s attitude with no verbs. This…

Charles Dickens was born on the 7th February 1812. His father was sent to prison because he could not afford to pay his debts. Dickens had to go to work at an early age because his father was in prison. At the age of 12, Dickens was working in the blacking factory. A blacking factory…

Miss Havisham lives alone in a huge house and is lingering in the past. She is broken hearted which creates sympathy because of the way she lives her life. She has not moved on, or changed, she has kept everything the same, even though her lover will never return to her. Dickens does not make…

Great Expectations, written by Charles Dickens is the novel I have been reading and analysing. Charles Dickens has used his childhood memories for this story but this book also shows the effects of society. Pip, fully named Philip Pirrip, is the protagonist of the story. The novel takes us through Pips life, from being ‘a…

When Pip arrives the next evening with the things for the convict, Magwitch’s whole attitude soon changes from a threatening, scary character, to a thankful yet still tough character. Magwitch’s character is threatening and nasty so this makes the audience dislike him and feel no sympathy for him, which is a complete contrast to how…

This essay depicts the characteristics of Fagin, a key character in Charles Dickens’s legendary novel ‘Oliver Twist’. Dickens wrote this book in the eighteen hundreds and gives a clear portrayal of life in the Victorian era, and how many people struggled to cope with poverty, desperation and crime. The story revolves around a small boy,…

Chapter 1 ‘One thing needful’ starts the book off by introducing Mr Gradgrind’s character. The Chapter is set in the local school of Coketown; a small mining town. Set in the 1800’s this book was first published in 1854. Some say this book reflected dickens own childhood more than fiction, much like ‘David Copperfield’. Charles…

Bitzer is a pupil at Mr Gradgrind’s school. As we learn in later chapters, he is a bully and is quite offensive to other children. In chapter 2 Gradgrind asks Bitzer for his definition of a horse after Sissy is unable to define it exactly how Gradgrind has taught it. We learn that Bitzer is…

“In Hard Times exactly the same spiritual failings underlie the problems of industrial society, a mechanistic education system and the inability of men and women to achieve fulfilling relationships.’ Discuss Charles Dickens (1812-1870), spent his childhood in the rural town of Kent where he was very happy. However, his family met financial problems and his father…