In the novel A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens exploits love as influential and motivational. ... The Monseigneur was stabbed heart with a note that said " Drive him fast to his tomb. ... Dickens skillfully uses theme throughout his novel to demonstrate loves ability to govern ones actions and restore one back to life. Love, a theme used throughout the entire novel, was used as a symbol of unity and sacrifice. ... Through characterization, conflict, and theme, Charles Dickens uses love to govern and restore characters in the novel A Tale of Two Cities....

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Analysis of Hard Times By Charles Dickens Hypocrisy, pompousness and immorality, these are a few of the notions that Dickens successfully adresses and criticizes in his novel Hard Times. ... The city represents the typical manufacturing town of the English midlands around the 1850s, the time in which the novel is set, and plays one of the most important roles. These factors put together the novel Hard Times is a brilliant work of social criticism, not to mention a fascinating read. ... The fire represents warmth and feeling to her and is, in fact, the symbol of love and warmth through...

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It is clear that Joe is representative throughout the novel of Pip's conscience a reminder of his roots which he strives to escape. ... It is important to note Mrs Joe's domestic failure, extends to her role of wife as well as mother. ... Joe does not show motherly feelings toward Pip; she is described throughout the novel as a violent and domineering figure that inspires only fear, both in Pip and Joe. ... Towards the end of the novel Pip becomes sick and Joe takes on the role as his caretaker. ...

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"Save England before it blows up, like the springing of a mine" (Hillis-Miller 1998, 31) is the warning embedded in Charles Dickens's Bleak House, though it seems far from the time in which the novel was born. ... Whereas the Chartist is described by Carlyle as one to who "the four-and-twenty letters of the Alphabet are still Roman enigmas to him-, Bleak House notes how it must be strange for a figure like Jo "to see people read and not to have the least idea of all that language -to be every scrap of it, stone blind and dumb". ... In the novel Tom-All-Alone's is described as being ...

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Charles Dickens was an English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian period. Dickens's works are characterized by attacks on social evils, injustice, and hypocrisy. Charles was born at Landport, in Portsea, England, February 7, 1812, He was the second of eight children. Dic...

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Pip Pirrip is the protagonist and narrator in the novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. ... Lonely because of isolation from the everyday outside world and "normal family-ties" (Coles Notes 101), Pip often visits his parents in the churchyard and explores the marshes. ...

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It is also interesting to note that while Pip dreams of becoming a gentleman and escaping his low social class and status, Herbert wishes to move in the opposite direction- his biggest dream is to start out on his own and make a fortune for himself as a capitalist merchant. ... Throughout the whole novel, Pip seems to prefer to always have friendly company around and be actively social. ... The interactions and relationship between Herbert and Pip, along with their outcomes in the novel, showcase the message of the book: that money and social status do not necessarily give a good life to their...

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The most prominent of the examples in the novel was the trial of Magwitch and Compeyson. ... Magwitch notes how he is taking the blame for everything, "It was always me that the money had been paid to, how it was always me that had seemed to work the thing and get the profit " (Dickens 350). ...

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• Grade Level: High School