Women Characters in David Copperfield
It has been said that Dickens is not generally successful in drawing female characters and that his men are as a rule better painted than his women.Let us examine how well he portrayed women in David Copperfield. Strained and Artificial It is true that many of his women characters are strained and artificial. “The tragedy […]
Elizabeth in Pride and Prejudice: A Critical Evaluation
Elizabeth in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen is an interesting character, representing changing conventions of early 19th Century England. Pride and Prejudice is brought to life by a kaleidoscope of different and even contrasting characters, most of whom are identifiable from their speech patterns itself. Of course, not all characters are or need to […]
The Return of the Native: Hardy’s Tragic Vision
Egdon Heath, sunk in history, representing both Man and the stage on which human drama has been performed from time immemorial, sets the tone for the sombre story of trapped human passions in Thomas Hardy’s The Return of the Native. The dark violence of Eustacia Vye, the idealistic intelligence of Clym, the will and affection […]
Role of Circus People in Hard Times
The role of circus people in Hard Times is both tangible and symbolic. Dickens presents the world of circus as diametrically opposite to the world of realism. The primary essence of Charles Dickens’s art lies in his ability to transform the mundane visible reality to an altered quasi- symbolic environment, where the characters get elevated […]