... void of any feeling or emotion, lacking any character or softness: "All the public inscriptions in the town were painted alike, in severe characters of black and white" (31). These letters, like the rest of Coketown, are lacking any vibrant or lively coloration, and are drawn out precisely to ... scene, their industrialized way of thinking made it of utmost importance to discard the "ethereal" figure from view. It sank back into the black darkness they brought with them from Coketown. While it was an accepted and even prominent feature of this building, it would be hardly understood by ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... until the switch comes with the fog being 'in the eyes and throats' and 'cruelly pinching the toes and fingers of his shivering little 'prentice boy on deck' to the metaphorical. The latter, while it could still be considered a physical fog, indicates instead the extended metaphor of the city's sickness, ... concern was primarily the social hierarchy and how fair, or unfair, it was. In the given passage, as mentioned previously, the fog cruelly pinches the little boy and yet, here, where it all comes to a head, 'the raw afternoon is rawest, and the dense fog is densest' th...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... hulks are and how they indicate that a prisoner has escaped: "Mrs. Joe," said I, "I should like to know-if you wouldn't much mind-where the firing comes from." "Lord bless the boy!" exclaimed my sister, as if she didn't quite mean that, but rather the contrary. "From the Hulks!" "Oh-h!" said I, looking at Joe. "Hulks!" Joe gave a reproached cough, as much as ... to say, "Well, I told you so." "And please, what's Hulks?" and I. "That's the way with this boy!" exclaimed my sister. "Answer him one question, and he"ll ask you a dozen directly. Hulks are prison-ships, right "cross th" meches...

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• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

... " This adds to the insignificance of Pip in the presence of this immutable landscape. The name "Pip" is a child-like nickname. It conveys the helplessness and irrelevance of a small young boy. Throughout the novel Pip remains in a child-like state of suspension, lacking vital knowledge about his benefactors identity. However, the way Dickens has related this to us is not sentimental ... anything they have ever seen before. There is juxtaposition between the storm at its most fierce with the silence afterwards: "A sulphurous smell filled the air, then all was silent and black as a cave" A...

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• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School