Charles Dickens

Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens explains the main theme that “Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself” (Dickens). Death and oppression often go together, with oppression resulting in death or death resulting in oppression. However, they differ in that death can result in something positive, such as the life of another person being saved while oppression only results in more oppression. Specifically, in The Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, the character…

A Christmas Carol Analysis I have loved A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens since I was little so I was very excited to see how Michael Daehn brought this iconic story to life. In his version, I believe that Daehn wanted to convey the heart of this story. To share the message of hope and selflessness and redemption and perhaps to inspire and enlighten the audience. By choosing to use a version of this play that incorporates music he not only brought this story to life but brought the audience…

Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens, illuminates the inherently selfish nature of people’s actions through the parental relationships of Pip and Joe, Pip and Magwitch, and Miss Havisham and Estella. Despite the supposed familial qualities of these relationships, the insinuation of the characters’ actions in volumes one and two demonstrate the selfish nature of human intent. However, in the final volume, Dickens illustrates the ability to redeem one’s nature through admittance in the final…

Life bases itself on the thoughts we believe, the choices we make and the people we surround ourselves with. In Charles Dickens’ novel, Great Expectations, Pip, a young boy starts his childhood under the care of his abusive sister and her obedient, yet kind husband, Joe. Pip comes from a common household, but has always been satisfied with his normal life. However, that all changes when Pip finds himself stealing food for a convict and falling for Estella, the adopted daughter of a wealthy woman…

Each house in Charles Dickens’ novel Great Expectations is made to be like the character that lives within it, to emphasize the personalities and characteristics of each person. When Pip first meets Miss Havisham, he thinks of her as weak and grotesque just like her house. He believes that she is just “a skeleton in ashes of a rich dress” (56); when he tours Satis House he is confronted by a house covered in “a great many iron bars” (53) and on the inside it’s filled with “ominous passages” (55)…

In his novel Great Expectations, Charles Dickens displays the recurring theme of how sometimes in life, despite what the accepted behavioral norms are for a certain group, not everyone complies to these standards. He uses this theme to make a profound statement in regard to his lack of conformity to gender ideals as depicted by the Victorian era, through the use of reversed gender roles. Stereotypically, Victorian ideals stated that women were to be kind and nurturing, and the men were to be…

A Christmas Carol, written by Charles Dickens, is a story about Ebenezer Scrooge, the protagonist, who learns to change his attitude towards life. First off, Ebenezer Scrooge’s main conflict is that he has to learn how to become a better person, which makes the type of conflict person vs self. In the beginning of the story, he is described as being a harsh fellow, “No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty. . .…

by Charles Dickens in Oliver Twist, one is able to see how Oliver views certain things that he disagrees with in life. One can see how he views poverty while working at a workhouse at a young age. Oliver Twist hates that in order to survive in England he has to be accustomed to this way of life. By living in poverty Oliver came to view life as cruel and selfish in Victorian England due to the workhouse he was forced to live in and the people he was forced to be acquainted with. In Charles…

British author Charles Dickens emphasizes gentility and what being a true gentleman entails in his novel, Great Expectations. It is clear from the first introduction of the topic that Pip’s definition of being a gentleman is staggeringly different from the definition Dickens implied. Charles Dickens defines true gentility not by the amount of money to one’s name, or the amount (or lack of) education one has received- but by one 's true character. True character consists of the way you treat…

of literature is the creative expression of the time’s systems. Charles Dickens used many of his writings to reflect his current time period. He used his novel “Great Expectations” to highlight the conflicts of London during the Victorian era. Dickens identified the issues in London’s justice system, treatment of orphans, and education system in “Great Expectations”. One of the conflicts present in both “Great Expectations” and Dickens’ time is the legal system and its values. The court was…