... the monarchy in turn. In the congratulatory rhetoric that surrounded the event, the conservative, retiring queen emerged 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 ... has "a quality of serene irony and even sadness," which according to Chesterton separates it from Dickens's other works. "Ours ...

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• Approx Pages: 27

... 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 life, but his finances could not afford him to ... 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 an...

• Word Count: 1580
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School