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This essay examines elizabeth gaskell's usage of language in her works “Life of Charlotte Bronte” and James Froude's “Life of Carlyle”.... hellip; elizabeth gaskell's language is as fresh and relevant to the modern reader as it was to the Victorians.... The paper also discusses how does her usage of language impact on the modern reader from both writer's perspective and reader's....
3 Pages
(750 words)
Essay
elizabeth gaskell's Cranford and North and South are highly acclaimed novels in their own right.... the novel reveals how such a ceasefire is not only possible but imperative in order to ensure better living conditions for all concerned.... This is arguably the most celebrated work of gaskell, and many consider it a classic.... With typical narrative skill, gaskell highlights the characteristics that mark both groups as unique in their own right and cleverly demonstrates the benefits to be enjoyed if their differences are ironed out....
13 Pages
(3250 words)
Essay
Margaret Hale, the main character, through whose eyes the novel dynamics is observed, has progressive and forward-looking convictions concerning the women's question: gender equality and marriage issues.... hellip; Furthermore, modern values allow the reader understand characters more profoundly, so that he/she even begins to live their lives and imagine him/herself in the setting the characters are prone to.
"gaskell's fourth novel, North and South,was also a social consciousness work, although less alarming than the first two....
7 Pages
(1750 words)
Book Report/Review
Wealth and status are not always given to the worthy - at least not until the end of the novel.... The essay assert that In both novels, the characters relate the way in which the class system was not based on true quality, but on the circumstance of luck and of manipulation.... nbsp; England's past economic and social structure had been based on agriculture and “power was largely in the hands of the landowning aristocracy.... hellip; gaskell uses geography to indicate the separation of the past to the future....
7 Pages
(1750 words)
Essay
Under the reign of Queen… Life switched from being primarily dictated by the land one owned to a social structure based on commerce and manufacturing (Greenblatt, 2005).... “The Victorian novel, with its emphasis on the realistic portrayal of social life, represented many Victorian issues in the stories of its characters” (Greenblatt, 2005)....
4 Pages
(1000 words)
Essay
based on the realities of the time, this essay hypothesizes that Gaskell through her novel North and South sought to highlight the importance of reconciliation as an important approach in tackling the social unrests taking place industrial revolution.... These transformations had profound impact in the lives of the people especially in areas such as working life,… Therefore, important authors of the time such as elizabeth gaskell adopted fiction as an avenue to delve into different aspects of society that until then was perceived as deplorable and taboo to highlight different social condition including prostitution and drug addiction in her “condition-of-England novels” (Matus 27)....
16 Pages
(4000 words)
Term Paper
This paper takes a look at the two quite different cultures of England and Iceland of the 19th century, pays attention to the traditional and cultural approach to the process and some historic facts describing how both the Englishmen and Icelanders regarded this particular kind of industry.... hellip; This essay discusses that knitting is a process of making of cloth or garments by means of weaving the threads....
9 Pages
(2250 words)
Essay
This paper 'Joseph's Dialect in Wuthering Heights and Jane Wilson's Dialect in Mary Barton" focuses on the fact that a dialect is a form of language that belongs to a region or social set up.... Pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary and every part of dialect is different from the standard language.... nbsp;… As far as indexicality is concerned, it can be understood as a fraction of pragmatics....
7 Pages
(1750 words)
Essay