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    Christmas Carol Charles Dickens was a Victorian writer . He grew up in London and therefore uses the city as the backdrop to most of his novels . Dickens took a keen interest towards the interaction between people of all classes which comes across in his writing. He would spend days simply wandering the streets of London in order to soak up the atmosphere and watch people pass by. These observations helped him to create larger than life characters in his novels. In his novels Dickens criticizes the

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    In Charles Dickens’s celebrated novel‚ Great Expectations‚ we are presented with a unique protagonist in Phillip “Pip” Pirrip‚ who‚ born an orphan‚ lives with his unkind sister‚ whom he address as Mrs. Joe‚ and her virtuous and amiable husband‚ Joe. During his formidable years‚ he is often forced to spend time at the estate of an old and very affluent lady named Ms. Havisham where he meets her daughter‚ Estella‚ with whom he almost instantly falls in love but seemingly does not reciprocate his feeling

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    in society; some changes are for the better of the individual‚ others not so much. These changes can be caused by monetary gain‚ advancements in their field of work‚ or a group of new friends. For example‚ in the novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens‚ Pip goes through many changes in hopes of appeasing the heart and standards of the gorgeous yet cold-hearted Estella‚ changes such as being eager to self-improve‚ becoming snobby‚ and being shameful of his origins. From very early in the

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    readers would sympathise with‚ Estella is the exact opposite‚ and viewed as "vixenish". Miss Havisham also begins as a "vixenish" character‚ who trained Estella to be the girl she’s growing up to be‚ and delights in the way Estella break Pip’s heart. Dickens justifies her actions by later explaining that Miss Havisham was jilted by her lover minutes before their marriage‚ and from then on hated men‚ wishing to hurt them as they did her‚ and although we dislike her actions and see her as vixenish‚ the

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    Diploma thesis Charles Dickens’s “Oliver Twist” and “David Copperfield”: Two novels compared (Narrative techniques) Mentor: Student: Dr. Muhamet Hamiti Arbnesha Kusari Table of Contents 1. Introduction………………………………………………………………3 2. Biography of Charles Dickens….………………………………..……....4 3. Oliver Twist………………………………………………………………

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    Torino Florencia Literature II Charles Dickens and the Victorian Era The writer Charles Dickens created some of the most memorable fictional stories and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period. He managed to represent features that were characteristic of this period. A clear example of this is ’The Signalman ’ ’ which was written by the author in 1865 and was based on a signalman who worked with the steam trains

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    Hard Times For These Times In order to improve the sales of his own weekly magazine‚ Household Words‚ in which sales had begun to decline in 1854‚ Charles Dickens (lived 1812 – 1870) began to publish a new series of weekly episodes in the magazine. Hard Times For These Times‚ an assault on the industrial greed and political economy that exploits the working classes and deadens the soul‚ ran from April 1 to August 12‚ 1854. In the opening scenes that take place in the classroom‚ you become familiarized

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    Attractiveness in Charles Dickens’ Bleak House Across cultures and across time‚ surface beauty has been idealized and integrated into societies to the extent to which it is almost necessary to determine one’s societal rank or role. In many cases‚ those who are considered more beautiful are given luxuries that those who are less fortunate are kept from. In a time when both looks and money ruled the social scene‚ Charles Dickens in his novel Bleak House makes an opposing argument. Dickens claims that the

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    In this literary study‚ the theme of identity will be examined in a character analysis of Pip in "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens. In the novel‚ Pip is a young man who is the narrator and the main character used to define identity. Pip is a confused character constantly seeking his own identity‚ but he can never seem to understand who he is or where he is going in life. At times‚ Pip is uncertain of neither his own identity nor what he wants out of life. The different stages of childhood‚

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    Monetary Corruption and the Consequences it has in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Charles Dickens examines how money can corrupt people and sometimes to a point beyond repair. In Great Expectations money is suppose to make people happier and to live easier lives but money will eventually corrupt people and ruin their life. Pip is introduced to a lot of money and becomes corrupt. When Pip becomes corrupt he looses former relationships that he had. The relationships that pip looses are completely

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