Essay on Charles Dickens

I have been studying the life of Charles Dickens and the times of the Victorian era that began with the coronation of Queen Victoria. Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812 in Portsmouth. His parents were John and Elizabeth Dickens. Charles was the second of their eight children; he later left school at the […]

In my essay, I will explain two short stories, and will illustrate the similarities and differences between them. The two stories are from the pre 1900 prose, and are called ‘The Red Room’ by H. G. Wells and ‘The signalman’ by Charles Dickens. The Red Room is about the narrator’s experience when he visited a […]

The short story today is now accepted as a genre in its own right; short stories are now in an equal place along with poetry, plays and novels. Before the nineteenth century, short stories were very unpopular and seemed very poor in comparison to the novel. Despite being around for many hundreds of years, short […]

– A diary entry by the signalmanDay 16It was 2 past midnight on that dreary Thursday. There was a cool breeze entering from the mouth of the tunnel, which makes my work all the easier since it is almost always damp down here. I was going about with my honest work, when, I hear this […]

In this essay I will be looking at two stories one written in the nineteenth century “The signalman” and the other in the twentieth century “Lamb to the Slaughter”. I will look at these two stories and compare all the similarities and differences between them, especially in terms of style, content and language.At the beginning […]

a) Based upon Massaud Moisés’ definition, we can affirm “The Signalman”, by Charles Dickens, belongs to the Gothic Fiction genre. For it has most of the elements that belongs to Gothic writing, such as mystery and horror in the plot, the presence of the supernatural, and the absence of light in a gloomy setting, which […]

For our chosen text we read “The Signalman” by Charles Dickens. This short story was written about one hundred and fifty years ago, therefore it was written for a purpose that we would not write for today. Dickens would have written this story to be read out to a public audience. This was because it […]

These two short stories belong to the mystery genre and use some of the typical elements of the mystery and ghost story genre periodically. The four aspects of these ghost stories I am going to investigate and compare between the two stories respectively are; Plot, Setting, Style and character. “Bang Bangs who’s dead? ” is […]

After studying the ‘Queer Chair’, ‘Goblins who stole a Sexton’, ‘The Signalman’ and ‘The Baron of Grogzwig’, all by Charles Dickens, I have found that he illustrates the ghosts very differently in each story. Throughout this, I am going to decide whether Dickens portrays the spectres in a malevolent or benevolent way to come to […]

The opening scene of the signalman consists of wide-open spaces and lots of description to give you the feeling of desolation and isolation. This is emphasised by people on trains going past, getting on with their lives whilst he is stuck in a rut at this signal post. The signalman in the title is physically […]

“Nothing to extravagant, no straightforward endings” this is how Susan Hill, the author of ‘The Woman In Black’ describes a perfect ghost story. Her own advice obviously paid off, as her famous novel was turned into a West End production at the Fortune Theatre, London and has been running for a long fourteen years. I […]

During my essay I will be looking at two short stories from the 20th and 19th centuries. I will examine the similarities and differences of Lamb to the Slaughter and The Signalman in content style and language. I will also show how the writer’s background influenced them to write these stories. In some ways these […]

All these stories have something in common. Every story has its own mystery or supernatural to it. Charles Dickens likes ghost stories, mystery and supernatural. He creates credibility and realism. He does this in a way to make sure you believe the story. For example ‘The Signalman’. In ‘The Signalman’ Charles Dickens goes straight into […]

This story is about a person, his name Captain Murderer. The story is a horror and has gory parts in it. This Captain murderer has a sick and twisted mind that loves to marry innocent women and killing them to put in a pie. So what happens, I’ll tell you. The story starts of where […]

Important ideas and feelings don’t die easily and even survive the transition from one generation to another. Two authors from two different centuries try to communicate the same ideas through their books; they are Charles Dickens, from the 19th century, and James Watson from the 20th century. Both of these authors wrote a book that […]

Ebenezer Scrooge’s Change In Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol” Ebenezer Scrooge changes from a bitter old man to a good person through the help of the ghosts of Christmas past, present and yet to come. When Scrooge was a young man he was kind, nice and good person. However, Scrooge slowly changes from towards a […]

Identify different Characterisations and Comparisons that Dickens uses in the novel “Hard Times” to show aspects of a Victorian Society during the Industrial Revolution? The novel “Hard Times” by Charles Dickens is about the contrast of a harsh Victorian education and Victorian ideals imposed by an authoritarian, ridged society compared to the idealistic, romantic and […]

The Pickwick Papers has been one of the most read and most popular novels of all time since its publishing in 1836. This novel exalts the joys one can live as Dickens portrays the pleasures of travel, food and drink, companionship between men, benevolence, the joys of youth and romance. While the novel primarily deals […]