... anonymous benefactor, Pip is properly educated, and he becomes a snob. Magwitch turns out to be the benefactor; he dies and Pip's "great expectations" are ruined. He works as a clerk in a trading firm, and marries Estella, Magwitch's daughter. Dickens participated energetically in all forms of the social life of the time, "light and motion flashed from every part of it," wrote his friend and future biographer John Forster. In ... the 1840s Dickens founded Master Humphrey's Cloak and edited the London Daily News. He spent much time travelling and campaigning against many of the social ev...

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... put in jeopardy (Findley, 153). Mrs. Ross had mourned for years over the sudden death of her brother and her father, now she had lost a daughter and was going to lose a son. It is also evident she kept a lot of things to herself. At Rowena's funeral she stood apart from the rest of the family pretending she did not need any help. Mrs. Ross hid behind a large ... out to hug her son and say goodbye she was found in the train saloon getting drunk. [Mrs. Ross] went into the salon and sat with her legs tucked beneath one of the pullman chairs and drank a third of a bottle of scotch. When Mis...

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• Grade Level: High School

... Celie also witnesses other women throughout the novel who are mistreated by the men in their lives. Sofia, Celie's daughter-in-law, has to deal with Harpo's assertion of conventional gender roles, which causes the couple to fight constantly. Later in the novel when Sofia and Harpo break up ... for Mr._____; she even leaps at the sound of his voice. " I think bout how every time I jump when Mr._____ call me" (38). Celie is Mr._____'s slave, not his wife, she works in the field, many times while he watches from the porch smoking his pipe. There is ... never a real conversation shared or ...

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... the contrary, the author of the dialogical novel understands, that it is a product of the environment and generation of time. Its outlook, no less than its self-estimation, - are historical in that measure in what he realizes the position as relative and consequently - passing. Historical consciousness is the consciousness giving the report in the historical nature. As against objective-subjective (when the hero takes hold of the author) and subjective-objective (when the author takes hold of the ... loss of Charles!), content of the new position deprecate all cares with which Charles i...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... not complete without her mother. It is because of this close relationship at the beginning that the breakdown is so upsetting for the reader as we come to know both these characters and identify with their relationship with one another. Her mother even reverts to saying Jeanette is 'no daughter of [hers]' This is reminiscent of Jane Eyre as Jane's relationship with her aunt is very ... and is able to identify with her because we take comfort in our family and friends. The fact that Jane takes comfort in the company of a stranger shows the lack of trust and feelings she has for her ...

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... 1971, when India and Pakistan engaged in a thirteen-day war that ended with the liberation of East Pakistan to become the independent nation of Bangladesh. The narrative never meshes with the war directly, but reports it through newspapers, radio broadcasts, and conversations. Gustad's daughter asks at one point, "Daddy, why is West Pakistan killing the people in East Pakistan?" He replies: "Because it is wicked and selfish. East ... , even a man like Gustad Noble. David Townsend, in a review of the novel, notes that "the story's private dimensions are not merely weighed against politica...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... 1971, when India and Pakistan engaged in a thirteen-day war that ended with the liberation of East Pakistan to become the independent nation of Bangladesh. The narrative never meshes with the war directly, but reports it through newspapers, radio broadcasts, and conversations. Gustad's daughter asks at one point, "Daddy, why is West Pakistan killing the people in East Pakistan?" He replies: "Because it is wicked and selfish. East ... , even a man like Gustad Noble. David Townsend, in a review of the novel, notes that "the story's private dimensions are not merely weighed against politica...

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... with a believable plot, convincing characterization and important literary devices enables William Faulkner in The Sound and the! Fury to deve! lop the theme of the regression of the family. The structure of The Sound and the Fury leaves much to be desired. First of all, the time sequence is chaotic and only leads to confusion. The first section is told from the point of view of a thirty three year old idiot, Benjy Compson, who can tell no difference ... went through is indecisive. Caddy spent her whole life battling her parents to show that their way of life was iniquitous. Instead, she...

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• Grade Level: High School

... to another. Darcy's first proposal of marriage to Elizabeth and his letter of explanation after Elizabeth has rejected his proposal underline the importance of shame in the book. Even as Darcy proposes, "his sense of her inferiority--of its being a degradation--of the family obstacles which judgment had always opposed to inclination were dwelt on" Elizabeth's mother, in particular, is only the daughter of a smalltown attorney, a station in ... ever anxious to keep him to herself, and to those of her family with whom he might converse with mortification; and though the uncomfortable feeli...

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... . Dashwood, who became a widow at her fortieth in the novel. To portrait a woman in this age as an old one in the modern society were unacceptable to the present time. For those reason an actress in her fiftieth was taken, who creates a proper image of an elderly woman whose only aim is to take care of the daughter's future avoiding her own personal love attitudes. 3.2. Dialogs Form As ... it has been already mentioned in the concept section spoken language or dialog is ... the second layer of sound whose meaning can vary depending ... ...

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... match Harriet with Mr. Elton is also shunned by the other characters as inappropriate. Since Harriet's parentage is unknown, Emma believes that she may have noble blood and encourages Harriet to reject what turns out to be a more appropriate match with Robert Martin. By the time that it is revealed that Harriet is the daughter of a tradesman, Emma admits that Mr. Martin is ... more suitable for her friend. The relationship between marriage and social status creates hardship for other characters. Frank Churchill must keep his engagement to ... the orphan Jane Fairfax secret because his w...

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... of her time and is known for her realistic characters and elegant style. Her life was an ordinary one, not a decorated masterpiece like so many writers we see today. Born on December 16th, 1775, Austen was brought up by her father, George Austen, an Anglican Clergyman, and her mother, Cassandra, a minister's daughter. But the three only contribute to less than half of the ... entire family. Austen was number 7 of the 8 children born to Reverend George and Cassandra Austen (Lauber 1). Her writings were not limited to novels; she wrote plays, versus, short novels and ... Jane Austen wrot...

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... he should also become a clergyman. However in 1860, Hardy began to doubt the teachings of his religion due to scientific advancements of his contemporaries. This caused him to question traditional religious ideas. By the time he wrote Tess of the d'Urbervilles' Hardy had abandoned his faith and become an agnostic with the view; "I have been looking for God for fifty years, and think that ... is no time to call the parson; "her darling was about to die and no salvation-. With the "thought of the child consigned to the nethermost corner of hell- Tess makes a decision to baptise the baby her...

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... away from her father and away from the evil she has known since birth. Rather than keep the mold of an obedient women and daughter, Eponine decides to take it into her own hands to stop her father from robbing the house in which Valjean and Cosette live. Not only is Eponine overstepping the authority of a man, she is overstepping the authority of her father. Eponine shows true bravery ... in this scene when she refuses the step down, "she stood ... role in the start of the revolution and then returns later in the novel to ensure the safety of the revolutionaries on the barricade. When ...

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... bohemian and romantic. Jo lived under an assumed name in a rambling group house in Cambridge. She grew especially close to one of the group members, Dana. No one had ever taken much attention to Jo throughout her life. When Dana seemed to be intrigues by her ... the perfect time. The two of them met through Jo's veterinary practice. Jo was feeling restless and was yearning for something more from life. The two of them began to talk. They talked about the past and the present, but mostly about the past. They dug into Dana's death. Jo started to think about the possibility of ... the benefi...

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• Grade Level: High School