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. ... These differences in the two friends could be seen as foreshadowing of their eventual fates, another part of them that shows Herbert as a foil to Pip. ... "I had grand ideas of wealth and importance of Insurers of Ships in the City, and I began to think with awe, of having laid a young Insurer on his back, blackene...

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Barrie's Peter Pan (1904) circulates in the popular imagination as a happy tale for children that, through the adventures of Peter and the other children in Never Land, celebrates playfulness. ... As its name implies, the middle class falls between the upper and working classes as an unstable site of mediation between the two. The instability of the middle class means that arriving at a definition is difficult, but a point of departure might be the consideration of the broad terms of work for the middle class, which requires a degree of intellectual engagement and is remunerated at a leve...

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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". ... "Jo and his order" (BH 258) are in may wqys similar to the characters portrayed in A Tale of Two Cities. ... Unlike the two women who are softened, albeit shocked, by the compassion shown by Esther and Ada, the men's hearts have hardened. ...

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