... Victorian Era. Literature scholars and social historians similarly refer to this period as the era of Victorianism. One of the most notable transformations during the period was on the industrial front as more and more people opted to transit from the agrarian life forms to embrace the industrial age. It is as a result of this outcome that the literature of the ... occurred in the typical society in the Victorian age. Against the backdrop of extensive socioeconomic change, the Victorian period is often is renowned for its volatility especially in the family front. Broken families were t...

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... the changes that took place within the characters more dramatically. In Great Expectations, the three parts showed the stages of Pip's expectations and how they play out. In the first stage Pip was a boy, with a boys dreams and a boy's logic, while in the second part, Pip was in the process of becoming a man in London and was dealing with financial and ... . His tale, like Pip's, was complicated when he met Catherine and was wounded in the subsequent part, and when Catherine became pregnant and he was forced to return to the front in the third segment. Then, the climax was reached when h...

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... job actually obiliges them to protect. The masses are merely a "large number of supernumeracies, who are to be occassionally addressed, and relied upon for shouts and choruses, as on a theatrical stage" (BH 191). Social unrest lies latent in Bleak House and there are moments when it certainly appears viable the "day is not far off" when the lower orders will take ... that surrounds them, ultimately because they can not understand it. This world is made up of words, and as Jo "stands staring up at the great letters on the whitewashed front" of General George's quarters, they sadly "have ...

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