Charles Dickens characters

course would have been. Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.” (Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, 1861). Charles Dickens quote speaks on how one day in his life caused major change within him, and called upon people to think about how something changed them rather it was good or bad. Someone’s personality, perspective, or attitude…

of Sir Charles Baskerville, a rich lord whose family is being killed by a giant dog known as the Hound of the Baskervilles. The hound supposedly killed an ancestor of the family Hugo and it seems to have scared Sir Charles to death. Holmes decides that Stapleton, a neighbour of the family who wants to inherit their property, murdered Sir Charles by creating a fake of the hound. He brought a giant dog from London, covered it in a ghostly coat of glowing paint, and let it loose on Sir Charles.…

Patrick White is the best known among the modern writers of Commonwealth Literature. He has achieved universality through his major novels with their epic themes and their poetic treatment. White, who comes of a pioneering Australian family, is pre-occupied with the Great Australian Emptiness in his middle novels particularly in Voss (1957). White is fascinated by the notion of the pure being which is a feeling of oneness with the whole creation. White has a unifying vision of life and believes…

This page comes with microtonal theme music: ostentatious, except sevenfold; a song that doesn't offer anything new, instead lazily rolling around in its own filth. Not unlike you — only without that sense of entitlement. I adore Autumn, bitter coffee and being as insufferable as humanly possible. I could well be Emma Bovary herself in all of my contempt and boredom, in all of my meretricious pursuits and ambivalence. I'm a frequent purveyor of what may or may not be satirical hubris, chutzpah…

differentiating him from the people who might be the hotel residents. He meets Simone, a black prostitute, to pick her up from the hotel. The scene where he first meets her underlines the class difference on the level of high and low position of the characters. While Simone stands high, she is shown in a princess-like outfit looking down on servant George. When she levels down with him, she turns into a working class prostitute in a simple coat, who would be an equal person to a criminal driver.…

“Richter's paintings, one might say, are timely only insofar as they are untimely” (Osbourne 110). This quotes perfectly exemplifies the meaning of artist Gerhard Richard work. The Art Gallery of Ontario possess Gerhard Richter’s painting Helga Matura as a gift from the volunteer committee fund in 1986, though the piece was painted twenty years earlier in 1966 (“Helga Matura”). In the AGO’s Philip B. Lind Gallery Helga Matura is on display for the public to see. Gerhard Richter painted many…

LITERARY ANALYSIS O. Henry’s short story “The gift of the Magi” takes us on a journey through a few days of the life of a poor young couple. The setting here is Christmas in the 1905 while the conflict is in buying gifts for each other. O. Henry exposes the emotions pertaining to the whole ideal of gift giving at Christmas with the help of these two in love. The abstract emotion of love is elevated in the story through the pain inflicted in sacrifice. The sacrifices the two of them make for each…

The more relatable the setting to an average reader, the more they can empathize with the main character and recognize the message. It is because Nora’s house is so inviting and mundane that the reader projects their own image of a comfortable abode onto the scenery, allowing the jarring reality of Nora’s social status to click with the reader. All…

The Beast The feeling of being lost can be a horrible experience, especially in darkness. This stress is magnified when you realize you’re the prey of an unknown beast you cannot see; only hear its footsteps as it closes in. Author H.P. Lovecraft, in his short story “The Beast in the Cave” takes the readers through a tale of darkness and horror in which a man ends up disconnected from his tour group, lost in a cave, and then realizes he’s not alone. He then goes on to kill a beast with the…

The growling and barking of Prince woke us up. In front of us stood a man and Principe watched him in a threatening manner. ¿-Who are you? He asked ¿What doing here? I stand up and put behind myself my brothers saying: they're, my brothers, and the dog our companion. The man examine us for a moment, I felt an eternity and after made signs to us of following him. As he seeing us wouldn't intend to move nor Prince stopped growling, gently he told us: - Listen children, I wouldn’t harm you,…