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    series of letters) 2 Henry Fielding Tom Jones (1749) Costly for poor 3 Charles Dickens Pickwick Papers Serialized in a magazine known as “All the Round Year” Serialization allowed readers to relish the suspense. 4 Leo Tolstoy War and peace Russian novelist who wrote extensively on rural life and community. 5 Charles Dickens Hard Times About the terrible effects of industrialisation 6 Charles Dickens Oliver Twist (1838) Tale of a poor orphan who lived in a world of petty criminals

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    approach‚ Barsad tells the Defarges the news about Miss Lucie Manette. He tells them she is going to marry a Mr Charles Darnay‚ a French nobleman who is‚ in fact‚ the late Marquis’ nephew and heir. After hearing this news‚ Madame Defarge knits the name Charles Darnay into the registry. Analysis Charles Dickens uses this chapter to expand on characters and set the mood for future events. Dickens uses allusion and symbolism to amplify the topic of death (which is vital for the theme of resurrection)

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    OLIVER TWIST ESSAY- Topic 3 In ‘Oliver Twist’ Charles Dickens exposes the lives and conditions of the poor in England to his affluent readers. He describes the extreme hardship and harsh treatment of the authorities of that time. At the time of Dickens’ writings there was an institution that was set up to deal with poverty stricken people. In his books he clearly depicts the cruelty of the jurisdiction in the workhouse as it really was. He describes how they were fed a minimal amount of food while

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    Throughout Charles Dickens’ novel Great Expectations‚ Pip finds many people that he can confide in and talk to. These characters are known as confidants if they are male‚ and confidantes if they are female. Along his journey‚ Pip constantly meets people that he finds he can find in‚ and Charles Dickens uses them to advance the plot‚ as well as give Pip and the audience someone to connect with. The first confidant‚ Joe‚ is in the book for an interesting function‚ as he is present throughout the novel

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    Discuss the presentation of confict in the texts that you have studied In “Hard Times” by Charles Dickens‚ conflict is presented as the outcome of industrialisation‚ material prosperity and a strict utilitarian way of life. In the 1850’s when the novel was written in instalments in ‘Household Words’‚ Victorian England was in the age of reform‚ which was creating new tensions between social classes‚ and creating a new type of ‘master’ represented by characters such as Mr. Gradgrind and more particularly

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    allegory of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” can be shaped by a variety of different outlooks. Dickens incites the reader by including a riddle of messages‚ some messages may be more imperative than others. One of the most outstanding messages within the novella is centred on money and love. The crux of Scrooge’s life is based on money‚ greed and gain twisted his ideals so to make him a wicked and corrupt man. Alternatively‚ love was also heavily included within the novella. Dickens illustrated

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    Alice Rino Karri Harris ENG403B 10 March 2014 Hard Times Essay The novel Hard Times‚ by Charles Dickens was written in 1854 based on the idea that logic and fact helped advance society more than fancy and imagination did. Dickens was concerned with the gloomy lives and social problems of mid-nineteenth-century England’s working class and Hard Times was his way of expressing his thoughts. He addresses these problems through three divided sections of the novel where logic‚ reason‚ fancy and

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    In A Tale of Two Cities‚ key elements of the plot revolve around the reader’s opinions of two opposing forces of the novel: the bloodthirsty revolutionaries and the decadent aristocracy. To his credit‚ Dickens does make allusions to some of the horrific acts indulged in by the French rebels‚ although examples of this are few and far between; he more often chooses to focus on the deplorable acts committed by the formerly ruling aristocracy. Though some may think that the disapproval for the revolution’s

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    the same time. NO THANKSUSE THE APP Untitled document Q.4 Play Response On Nov 25‚ 2015 I went to Calgary Theater‚with my class‚ to watch a Charles Dickens play called Christmas Carol. Christmas Carol reveals about poverty and social injustice during the Victorian Era‚ these topics are discussed during Christmas time in this novella.In this play‚ Dicken shows class differences of Victorian England and the selfishness of the rich‚and the Poor Laws that keeps the underclass down. The worldview involved

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    Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations as a Fairy Tale Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations as a Fairy Tale  There are many ways in which Great Expectations resembles a fairy  tale‚ such as the themes- poor people receiving riches‚ the moral  reasons‚ - do good unto others and you shall be repaid. During  Victorian times stories were used mainly for morals purposes.  One of the main reasons why resembles a fairy tale is due to its  characters  Great Expectations has many characters that

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