... their own whites. He was a mild, good-natured, sweet-tempered, easy-going, foolish, dear fellow- a sort of Hercules in strength, and also in weakness" (Chapter 2, Page 6) Despite his appearance, Joe was a gentle person who cared about Pip a lot. He could be described as a gentle giant because of his great ... she did not keep up her appearance, but when she grew older she took better care of herself. This is described in the story in two quotes, when Pip first states, "She was most noticeable, I thought, in the respect of her extremities; for her hair always wanted brushing, her hands ....

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... sounds rather rude. This is another example of inexperience in life which the Gradgrind system of education has imposed on her. This is also proved by when in the third chapter first book, the narrator says about Louisa 'would have been self-willed but for her bringing up'. The character Bounderby claims that he made it into this world by himself ... not telling the truth, far from it, when his mother turns up on the doorstep, she humiliates him quite unintentionally. In fact she really cares for her son as she quotes "Lord forgive you, sir, for your wicked imaginations" after Mr Gradgr...

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... powerful in itself but it shows us what Dicken's thought about crime. Dicken's was trying to find the good in even the darkest of characters. In chapter one, Dickens uses metaphors and similes to describe the setting and atmosphere. Pip describes it as a "memorable raw afternoon" the use of raw gives us ... atmosphere between Pip and Magwitch showing a softer side to Magwitch making the reader feel sorry for him and begin to like him more. At the end of chapter 5 Magwitch saves Pip from getting into any trouble by confessing to the sergeant and to Joe that he had stole some wittles, liquo...

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... the symbol of love and warmth throughout the novel. The harshness and ineffectiveness of Mr. Gradgrind's system, and disposition, is clearly depicted in chapter fifteen of book one when Louisa seeks her father's support and advice on the question of a possible marriage to Mr. Bounderby. He dissapoints ... or at least a "closed off area" in their personalities. Finally, after obtaining all this information, we can analyze the title, book-titles and chapter-titles. The main title of the book "Hard Times" is fairly uncomplicated. It makes reference both to the fact that the workers of that ...

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... the density of population, and whole new range of sights, sounds and sensations for Pip to adapt to. His fears are stated in the opening of lines of Volume II, chapter 1: "I had some faint doubts whether it was not rather ugly, crooked, narrow and dirty" (GE p163). There is a more subtle recognition of the differences where Pip describes, at the end ... Hardy's choice of subject matter for his narrative. However, as critics have noted, Tess is a transgressive work not only by virtue of its somewhat controversial narrative. At the beginning of chapter 2, Hardy describes the village of Ma...

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... of the Victorian penal and judicial system. These characters include, a lawyer; Mr. Jaggers, the judge, Newgate Prison, the Hulks, and the convicts themselves; Abel Magwich and Compeyson. The paragraphs in Chapter twenty of the novel includes all of these aspects, which are so central to the meaning, and construction of the novel. The Victorian judicial and penal system and the class ... system. The plot of the novel is intricately threaded around the representatives of the judicial and penal system in order for Dickens to exert these ideological preconceptions. The paragraph in Chapter...

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... Gridley's last moments, "he and little mad woman were side by side, and, as it were, alone. She sat on a chair holding his hand and [nobody] went close to them" (chapter 24). At times in the novel this caution not to approach them appears wise, particularly at other times they are capable of biting. Certainly the lower classes are portrayed as ... ...

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... wife from committing suicide. When Stephen is accused of robbing the bank, she believes in Stephen and confirms that he will come back to clear himself from the accusation. This chapter has a title " No Way Out", meaning that he is distressed, desperate and lacks freedom. Dickens also comments on English society that law of divorce is complicated and has high expense ... ...

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... in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the past, present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me." In chapter five, "the end of it", Scrooge is fully reformed, and ready to finally enjoy Christmas. "Heaven, and the Christmas time be praised for this!", "he was so fluttered and so ... ...

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... that he should be buried "in an inexpensive, unostentatious, and strictly private manner". OUR MUTUAL FRIEND (1865), the second last novel Dickens wrote, started with a murder mystery. In the opening chapter a drowned man is found floating on Thames. The Italian writer Italo Calvino has called the novel "an unqualified masterpiece, both in its plot and in the way it is written ... ...

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