Little Women by Louisa Alcott would definitely appeal to women of all types and ages. Little Women appeals to a broad audience‚ its full of the values and beliefs‚ and it paints a very real picture of most American’s lives at the time. The reason for this book appealing to such a broad audience lies in all the characters’ personalities. Mrs. March is a strong‚ independent woman who never falters‚ therefore she relates to all independent women; but she is also a mother who plants strong values in
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Placed in Coketowm‚ a bland factory based town where Thomas Gradgrind created the school. Coketown is known to be excessively dirty and industrialized. 2. It is discovered the dark-eyed rigid man is Thomas Gradgrind who built the school. Also in this chapter Mr. Mcchoakumchild is introduced who is one of the teachers at the school. Lastly‚ a boy named Bitzer and a girl named Sissy Jupe enter the story. 3. Through this chapter Thomas Gradgrind hires Mr. Mcchoakumchild as a teacher in his school. He
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Jackson‚ “Louisa‚ Please come home.” is about a teenager by the name of Louisa‚ decides to run away from her family because she feels she doesn’t fit in with them. Louisa carefully plans on running away. At age 19‚ she runs to Chandler. She is lucky and runs into an old lady‚ Mrs. Peacock‚ who owns a stationary shop and gives Louisa a job and a place to stay. Louisa has many attributes and character traits throughout the story. I will talk about cautious‚ brilliant and judgementful. Louisa is very
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class who look down on everyone. The sentimental melodrama is portrayed through Harthouse’s plight after Louisa leaves him: “He was positively agitated. He several times spoke with an emphasis‚ similar to the vulgar manner.” This man‚ to whom the only pleasure in life is overcoming a new challenge‚ seems to be completely disorientated by the fact that he did not get his own way with Louisa. Dickens is criticising here the opportunistic and selfish values of the higher class using the melodramatic
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Thomas Gradgrind‚ sir. A man of realities. A man of fact and calculations. A man who proceeds upon the principle that two and two are four‚ and nothing over‚ and who is not to be talked into allowing for anything over. Thomas Gradgrind‚ sir -- peremptorily Thomas -- Thomas Gradgrind. With a rule and a pair of scales‚ and the multiplication table always in his pocket‚ sir‚ ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature‚ and tell you exactly what it comes to. It is a mere question of figures
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with as many as 24 titles Like ’ According cooker the grindstone ’ ’ something tangible ’ ’ Rust and Dust’‚ ‘Hard Heads and Soft Hearts’ etc. Later on those whittled down to just four : ’ Two and Two are Four ’ ‚‘A matter of calculation’ ‚ ’ The Gradgrind philosophy ’ and ‘stubborn things’ of these the first three admittedly pointed to the utilitarian apotheosis of facts ‚ figures and averages . The last one however‚ indicates the unbeatable nature of fancy and imagination. But these titles too were
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Analyse From ‘He Was A Rich Man’ To ‘From Which To Subdue Mrs Gradgrind’. Use Your Analysis To Show How Dickens Represents Men In The Novel. The extract introduces Mr Bounderby to the reader. He is introduced as being a proud‚ arrogant‚ factual man‚ displaying his dominance and is used by Dickens to represent men in the novel. This idea of Bounderby’s pride and dominance is not unexpected due to the stigmas of the era‚ men were generally considered to be better‚ more capable than women. His factual
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Louisa May Alcott’s Challenges as a Civil War Nurse “Hospital Sketches” recounts what it was like in the hospital Louisa May Alcott was posted at in Washington during the Civil War. She gives very solid detail about what went on within the hospital and an inside look to what nurses and soldiers went through. Alcott’s account as a civil war nurse left me very surprised and thankful for today’s modern hospitals and women’s rights. She faced many challenges getting to the hospital and during her
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"Give me your definition of a horse‚" (Pg 3) says the eminently practical Mr. Thomas Gradgrind of Charles Dickens’ unforgettable novel‚ Hard Times. Can anybody really define a horse? Cecilia Jupe‚ also known as Sissy‚ was unable to answer this question because she was‚ well‚ normal. Bitzer‚ the boy brought up in Coketown‚ the city of facts‚ answered‚ "Quadruped. Graminivorous. Forty teeth‚ namely‚ twenty-four grinders‚ four eye-teeth‚ and twelve incisive..." (Pg. 4). Clearly the contrast between
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education pushed women to the lower strata of society‚ education of the women was given primary emphasis. Since then‚ the educated women have come to the forefront of the movement to liberate women from the suppression of the patriarchal society. Louisa May Alcott was a Victorian age American novelist and short story writer. She is best known for her novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels‚ Good Wives (1869)‚ Little Men (1871) and Jo’s Boys (1886). The novels follows the lives of four sisters-
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