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“Dickens calls his novel Hard Times. How does Dickens communicate a sense of the hard times which the working classes experienced due to industrialisation and Victorian attitudes to education? In your answer you should consider how Dickens uses characterisation and language to explore his themes.” During the Industrial Revolution of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth…

As far as I can see there is only one character in Charles Dickens’ Novel “Hard Times” how actually has an easy life, and that is James Harthouse this is because he is bored with life and has don’t most things. In this essay I will study three main characters from this novel that have…

During pages 492-505, special light is thrown on the character of Mihailov and the characters surrounding him. Compared to other sections, this episode is not particularly important to the plot. It does not involve any fundamental aspects that drastically change the rest of the book, but reveals characteristics and more importantly clearly shows Anna and…

Dear colleges, to sum up Mr Blackpool in two words with all seriousness, is to say that he is a “tragedy” and a “born loser”. From the many experiences Stephen Blackpool undergoes, I only make mention of the following: he is stuck in an unfortunate marriage, he is a failure at work, he is bad…

By the end of this novel, Fagin is no longer a two dimensional racial stereotype but a character for whom the audience has considerable sympathy. Discuss. “Oliver Twist” was the second novel of Charles Dickens. It was initially published in monthly instalments that began in February of 1837 and ended in April of 1939. The book…

“Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors on either side of the Battle of Hastings”. This is just the first of many prejudice statements in ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’. We learn here the high expectations set in the society of Maycomb, “a…

In the novel, ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, we see many types of prejudice, the first example that we meet comes in chapter one when Scout tell us her family history. ‘In England Simon was irritated by the persecution of those who called themselves Methodists at the hands of their more liberal brethren. ‘ This quotation…

Through out ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, The Mrs Dubose episode, featured in chapter eleven found at the end of part 1 of the novel, plays a huge part. Mrs Dubose is an elderly, Ill-tempered, racist woman who lived ‘two doors up the street from the finches in a house with steep front steps and a…

Prejudice is an adverse judgement or opinion formed beforehand or without knowledge or examination of the facts. It is shown in a lot of different ways in the novel ‘To Kill a Mocking Bird’. The first example of prejudice in this novel is shown by the Town people concerning Arthur (Boo) Radley. Scout suitably described…

In the novel ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, the author Harper Lee presents the main characters in such a way that we can see what they learn. In this essay I will concentrate on the characters of Scout, Dill and Jem and show how they are presented. The character of Scout makes up the narration, therefore…