... as the durable symbol of her dynamic, aggressively businesslike realm. In succeeding decades, the official portraits of Queen Victoria, gradually aging, reflected her country's sense of its own maturation as a society and world power. Etched by conflict with her prime ministers, the birth of nine children, and the ... early death of her beloved Prince Albert, Victoria's once pretty face became deeply lined and heavily jowled. Represented as a fairytale teenaged queen at her coronation in 1837, she ... Chesterton wrote that it has "a quality of serene irony and even sadness," which accor...

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... for lower classes and again, with firmness, expresses a threat to beat David again. Although Dickens does not relate his father to Mr. Murdstone, he does relate one character to his beloved father, Mr. Micawber. Charles Dickens uses the character Mr. Micawber to relate to the reader the circumstances that Dickens himself experienced. Mr. Micawber was a man who loved to live a plentiful ... building enormous jails and debtors" prisons towards the end of the novel. "I could not help thinking, as we approached the gate, what an uproar would have been made in the country, if any deluded man...

• Word Count: 1580
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• Grade Level: High School