... and religious tradition. Woman was to be valued, instead, for other qualities considering to be especially characteristic of her sex: tenderness of understanding, unworldliness and innocence, domestic affection and in various degrees, submissiveness. To be bored was the privilege of wives and daughters in upper and middle class families in which feminine idleness was treasured as a status symbol. Well off wives and daughters, lived in ... is able to question, examine, decide and make a change to the society. The root of liberalism was "respect for the dignity and worth of the individual...

• Word Count: 1835
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... by doing good deeds. There is an overwhelming source of closure seeing how at the beginning of the novel Pip's innocence has him helping out a criminal and by the end, Pip is staying by that same criminals side for his last few moments, purely out of the good of his heart. Charles Dickens artfully wrote this novel to criticize the corruption of the Victorian era's social system. Allegorically, each character represents a different ... have towards others. Dickens himself was oppressed by the social class and forced to work off his family's debt even though he was just a boy. He never go...

• Word Count: 1549
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School