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What is the relationship of the present-at-hand to the ready-to-hand? How is the present-at hand prior? How is the ready-to-hand prior?
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Discuss satire in Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels - Part IV.
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"How does Charles Dickens in the early part of Oliver Twist use the character Oliver to present his view of an unfair and corrupt world?" In the Victorian times, life for some people was an unfair and corrupt world. In the novel "Oliver Twist", this is shown in many ways. This novel is about a young, innocent boy called "Oliver" who is brought up in a hard disadvantaged world. The conditions were extremely cruel, especially for the poor and the young orphans such as Oliver Twist who were sent to work in the workhouses at a very young age. Due to Oliver's mother dying after giving birth and Oliver's father not being around this made Oliver an orphan, alone to face the unkindness things in his future. Charles Dickens chooses to have a young character Oliver Twist in his novel, because he was innocent, naive and harmless. A lot of things happened in Oliver's life things which weren't his fault. Oliver has a lot of courage and is a tough boy inside, because throughout his life he has had horrible experiences and has coped with them on his own. In the workhouse the boys were starving they had very little to eat many children broke down or died of hunger but not Oliver he was a strong boy mentally and physically. It wasn't Oliver's fault that he was brought up in a workhouse, he was an orphan and had to do strictly what the beadle and Mrs Mann told him to do. Workhouses were for
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OPPRESSION AND FRENZY: CAUSES OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."1 The quote describes the spirit of the era in which this story takes place. The age is marked by competing and contradictory attitudes. Whether it was the best of times or the worst of times depended on one's point of view. Yet, these times resembles the present period in which Charles Dickens writes A Tale of Two Cities. In fact, Dickens' novel was written as a political commentary to inform the people of the Victorian era of the causes of the French Revolution. These causes can be divided into two major categories: hatred for the nobility, and an atmosphere of paranoia, fueled by the sans-culottes, which can be seen in calls for violence. Evidence for hatred of the nobility is quite extensive. Not seldom aristocrats fell victim to crowd violence, often being mutilated in the process. Nobles inspired resentment and retaliation because they claimed that their political and social distinctions derived from their high birth. Just so, the people of Paris provided much of the force for radical action in the French Revolution. In France, before the revolution, the social structure had two extremes. The peasants hated the aristocrats for their power and money. For the aristocracy it seemed like the best of times but many lived in a world insulated from what the reality