Suffering In Charles Dickens Great Expectations

In the nineteenth century, Dickens was writing a forgettable epic works. "Dickens beliefs and attitudes were typical of the age in which he lived” (Slater 301). The circumstances and financial difficulties caused Dickens’s father to be imprisoned briefly for debt. Dickens himself was put to work for a few months at a shoe-blacking warehouse. Memories of this painful period in his life were to influence much of his later writing, which is characterized by empathy, oppressed, and a keen examination of class distinctions.

When the reader reads his story, there are a lot of spelling and grammar mistakes in it. With him living in a poor town and making too many errors in his story, it tells the reader he is not educated well which goes back to the thesis, not having the education can result in someone living in poverty and it is shown through the novelist. In Malcolm X’s biography, “Learning to Read”, Malcolm was not well educated during his life until he spent seven years in prison and educated himself. “I saw that the best thing I could do was get hold of a dictionary – to study, to learn some words.” (X 1). This quotation explains what Malcolm X did while in prison; he educated himself by learning words from the dictionary, then he reads books about people, places and events in history.

In Scott Russell Sanders’ essay “The Inheritance of Tools”, Sanders explores the relationship that he had with his father. Concrete objects like the wooden tools that he inherits from his father provide the basis for the reflections on his relationship with his father. He manages to indicate his attitude very early on in the essay using both features of style and rhetorical strategies. The author establishes his love for his father and sadness at his passing by narrating an anecdotal story involving his hammer, word choice that conveys his sadness, and strong use of imagery. The paragraph in Sanders’ essay that explains the story behind the handle of his hammer and how he had broken it several times uses an anecdotal story to convey Sanders’ attitude towards his father 's death.

Hera was furious at Hercules and drove him to kill his wife and children. This has caused him to have this burden to bear and he did not want to live anymore but his friend, Thesus, help him and Hercules did many good deeds to the people. One of his many great adventure was when he help Admetus get his wife back from death, repaying Admetus for being a drunken fool in his sorrowful, mourning house. Character Archetype- The Star-crossed Lovers Hercules and Megara was a happy couple who had children and Hercules was very happy at that time. But Hera despised Hercules and sent him madness to kill his wife and his children.

He shared personal experiences and hardships he had been through with the audience. Within the article, he explains that school is not easy, whereas blue-collar factory work is more unpleasant. After reading Braaksma article, my comprehension on how important higher education has opened my eyes. It makes me wish I would have gone to school sooner instead of learning the hard way. Additionally, my appreciation for factory workers and the work they do has grown dramatically.

The documentary “Slavery By Another Name” Connects to the book of “ The Piano Lesson” written by August Wilson very clearly. The documentary discusses about, how thousands of african americans were pulled into forced labor with shocking force and brutality. The book describes the Characteristics of these people who had to experience what the documentary discusses about. “ Lymon bought that truck so he have him a place to sleep and to avoid his sheriff ; the sheriff looking for him” - Boy Willee. Lymon Answers, “ it 's just misunderstanding” In this book of Piano lesson, The conversation between Boy willie and Lymon had explains ; how the peonage and sharecropping system discussed in the documentary affected their life.

It is his intimate encounters with death that prompt him to yearn for human relationships, making him more receptive towards Gerasim’s genuine feelings. Tolstoy repeatedly uses “pity” in chapter 7 and 8 to lend verisimilitude to Gerasim and Ivan’s relationship, which has now developed into a meaningful and authentic connection. In contrast to Praskovya inviting a doctor and ironically labelling the act as “doing it for [her]self” (80), Gerasim “simply pitied his emaciated, weakened master” (76). Being a recipient of Gerasim’s sincere pity allows Ivan to pity others. He was now able to express empathy on his deathbed, feeling “sorry” (91) and asking for forgiveness from his family having to endure his sufferings.

The play brings the view of racism in the world through Tory Maxson, family and friends. The play describes the life of Troy Maxson a middle age Africa-American man who was raising his family in time of racism. Troy is married to Rose and the father of three children. Troy has two sons Lyons and Cory, and a daughter named Raynell. August Wilson describes the life of Troy as someone who feels he is being oppressed and how different the culture was when his was a child growing up compared to his children’s lives.

There are instances throughout the novel that are comparable to Charles’ own experiences, such as one of the characters was put in debtors’ prison just like Dickens’ own father. This informs Dickens’ writing the same as his growing up poor helps him relate to the peasantry class he describes in the novel. Charles Dickens’ own struggles allow him to have a deeper understanding of the cruel aristocracy and the oppressed peasantry at the time of the French Revolution. Charles Dickens had great challenges as a child. He grew up in a family that did not have much of anything.

Dickens teaches us a great deal about Victorian poverty, in London. The extract and novella as a whole illustrate the hardship and stigma the poor endured, which Dickens experienced himself as a child giving us a more vivid and accurate description. The novella was written, by Dickens, to verbalise the inequality and class division in Victorian society or else there was to be a revolution, like in France. Dickens conveys this through his use of language, literary devices, speech and characterisation. In this extract given we learn a lot about poverty through Scrooge’s clerks family; the Cratchits.