... , which had risen by 1860 to about 50% of the children aged 5-15 which were in some sort of school, even if it was only a day school (similar to the one in which Pip from Great Expectations finds himself). Dickens normally ignores the nobility and the aristocracy in favor of characters whose fortunes have been earned through commerce. Even Miss Havisham's family fortune was made through ... ambition and self-improvement. Self-improvement is what the working-class proletariat was in support of because in order to rise economically one must first work hard and strive to make something of o...

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The induction is a great success and importance to the play because it gives many hints and clues to what the play proper is going to be about, it creates a comedic ... Sly and Gremio are from a less educated family and are seen as working class. Each person in the play occupies a specific social position that carried with it certain expectations about how that person should behave. Katherine is only one of the many characters who attempt to deny their socially defined roles, Lucentio transforms himself to be a working class Latin ... Katherine to make her the "perfect" wife that she is not. ...

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... " highlights Austen's concern with the notion of the ideal woman within her nineteenth-century English context. Commonly regarded as a realist writer in her accurate portrayal of everyday, Regency era life, Austen was moreover "one of the great formative and founding influences on how we think about 'England' and 'Englishness,' as well as class, ideology and gender issues." ... importance and possibility of love by refusing to marry without it, and as a result, the hero is unable to sweep them easily off their feet. As figures in realist-romance, Austen's characters are aff...

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... directed towards inequality and the complex economic relations within families. It criticises the oppressive determinist social values and norms in society that govern the individual by common-held morals, expectations and the undermining of free will. A text that can easily be acquainted with this approach is May Sinclair ... , the social hierarchy, patriarchal authority and lastly through social rank and differences. The economic factors throughout the novel are prevalent. The characters are determined by their financial position and judged accordingly. Those who aspire to own money an...

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... mediocre life. He created a type of character, not a specific individual. He claimed that Emma Bovary was "suffering and weeping at this very moment in twenty villages in France". Flaubert is quoted as having said "Madame Bovary c"est moi", "I am Madame Bovary", meaning that he, himself was possessed the same romantic ... independent of its content. Flaubert's style is also described as indirect free-style in which he very carefully describes characters not directly as the author, but through the eyes of another character. The portrayal of this mediocre, country woman in a mundane, phili...

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