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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 40 uppsatser innehållade ordet Dickens.
1. Capitalism, Industrialism, and Hard Times : Satire and Social Critique in Charles Dickens’ Hard Times
Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humanioraSammanfattning : This essay will analyze a selection of characters from Charles Dickens’ novel Hard Times. Characterizations will be analyzed by using a Marxist theoretical framework, e.g., characters’ relations to Marxist concepts such as class struggle, alienation, and stratification will be studied. LÄS MER
2. Societal critique in Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist : A Ricouerian Analysis
Kandidat-uppsats, Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskapSammanfattning : This essay investigates social critique and commentary in Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist, applying a Ricoeurian hermeneutics in order to determine whether the novel simultaneously affirms certain viewpoints while subtly undermining these. If such cases can be found, the analysis will then endeavor to determine how this serves to influence the reader’s perception of the various social issue presented in the novel. LÄS MER
3. Accommodating Perspectives on Religious History : A Study of Satire and Narrative Structure in Aldous Huxley’s Crome Yellow
Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humanioraSammanfattning : This essay is an analysis of Aldous Huxley’s novel Crome Yellow and how it can be read as exposing social hypocrisy and tracing social flaws through England’s religious history. The analysis uses narratology as a tool for exploring how the author can be perceived as offering a perspective on religious history that might have been controversial in his day. LÄS MER
4. Revenge, Compensation, and Character Change in Dickens's Great Expectations
Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/EngelskaSammanfattning : Revenge is a theme which has fascinated people for thousands of years and which is present in a wide range of genres. Revenge also plays a central role in the nineteenth-century novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. LÄS MER
5. The portrayal of class and social mobility in Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations
Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/EngelskaSammanfattning : Pip’s transformation to become a gentleman in manners and behaviour in Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations illustrates the difference and importance of class in the Victorian society. Through an unknown benefactor, Pip makes a journey from working-class blacksmith apprenticeship in the countryside to gentleman life in the upper-middle class London, with access to economic, cultural and social capital. LÄS MER
