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His head thumped, his throat was parched, and Darcy Oxenham's memory of the previous night was filled with gaps, all of which he'd become accustomed to waking up with at least twice a week since his thirtieth birthday. Darcy was the eldest, and sole surviving, child of wealthy Landowner, Peter, and wife Laura, and if his father had had had his way, would never have relocated to London. However, after almost a decade of exasperation, the Patriarch had eventually conceded that, as well as a hatred of getting his hands, literally, dirty, Darcy lacked the work-ethic to run the land as his forebears had. Consequently, he'd reluctantly sent the boy off to the big city, placing him under the supervision of his friend, the Honourable Reginald Bailey, Solicitor at Law, to be trained as an articled clerk. Darcy, regardless of his other flaws, did possess a brain, and the hope of his Peter was that. with expert tutelage, his boy would at least be able to carry on the good family name in another discipline. …show more content…
That was, until on the Fifteenth of September, in the year Ninety Hundred and Eighty Eight, the trust fund his Father had bequested him, and often threatened to rescind, finally came into effect. Once he'd gained access to the proceeds, and there was nothing his parents could do to remove his rights to spend as he wished; fuck the larger inheritance, the old bastard probably wouldn't die for another century anyway; any semblance of ambition that had existed in the young man swiftly departed. He continued to attend the office on most days, however that was purely for the purpose of garnering contacts and social invitations, and done so regularly with bleary eyes and the smell of alcohol on his
On leaving the university, he began the study of law, for which profession his father designed him; but at the solicitation of his mother, this pursuit was relinquished, and he became a clerk in the counting house of Thomas Cushing, at that time a distinguished merchant. But his genius was not adapted to mercantile pursuits; and in a short time after commencing business for himself, partly owing to the failure in business of a friend, and partly to injudicious management, he lost the entire capital which had been given him by his father.
in office. So he went for an apprenticeship with some of his teachers, but they noticed the new political difficulties, and suggested that he because
...says, `A clerk hadde literly biset his whyle,/But if he koude a carpenter bigyle' we get the impression that the class system, in both reality and in the text, is doomed to failure should Nicholas not capture John's wife. His higher position in society dictates this: John is a lowly carpenter while Nicholas is a parish clerk and keen astrologer. Similarly this debate within the text can reflect the struggle for power in England during the late 14th Century.
In her novel, Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen used the character of Elizabeth Bennet to epitomize the harmonious balance between reason and emotion in a woman, making her a truly admirable and attractive character.
was very independent and has always done things he wanted, as he was entrusted with the
Utterson is a man of the middle class because he performs mental and fair work. He is known as an illustrious and trustworthy lawyer and he is extremely respected all through the London area. "Utterson is the textbook definition for a perfect Victorian gentlemen" (The Public Cultu...
Just as Jack Worthing’s existence is circumstantial, his true identity, Ernest Moncrieff, arises from happenstance. Through the action of Act III, which enlightens the bizarre events of Jack’s “birth” from a handbag in a coatroom, Jack gradually takes on the trimmings of the well-connected and desirable Ernest Moncrieff. Jack Worthing no longer requires the trappings of an established family, such as respectable names, which arise from the sacraments of strategic and extravagant marriage and baptism. As Miss Prism points out, Lady Bracknell is best able to reveal Jack’s identity, and, his true family connections and name (53). After explaining that Jack is the eldest son of the Moncrieff family, Lady Bracknell remembers that Jack was indeed christened as his father’s namesake. Citing the relevant military directory, Jack discovers his father was indeed Ernest (54). With this revelation, Jack claims his position as a member of the wealthy, respected Moncrieff family, without a marriage or baptism. Because his Christian and family names now hold social relevance, he no longer has to resort to the manipulation of church institutions in order to meet these collective requirements. This sequence further displays Wilde’s insistence that the imposed social value associated with names relies only on circumstance and is far from substantial evidence of
In part one ‘London’ when William is ferrying the supercilious gentry, whom he had a strong sense of ‘hatred’ for, back and forth the river Thames, a women exposes the bottom of her leg sensually teasing William. The surge of anger he feels as the ineffectual man flaunts his wife, shows the rigid class system that condemns William to a life of poverty and backbreaking labour. Furthermore the dichotomy between upper class and lower class is evident through Thornhill’s boss Lucas when ‘Thornhill squints up into the brightness where Lucas looked down upon him’. Although, Thornhill might’ve felt a sense of power and superiority when he was assigned convicts Ned and Dan because he has people working for him and consequentially is now on the ascent up the social order, Captain Suckling’s treatment of him, as ‘he shooed Thornhill away with both hands as if he were a dog’ enforced that Thornhill would always be the felon from England many years ago regardless of his present
If we investigate the themes, characters and setting of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice in an effort to find faults of logic, we must first recognize that the entire work is a fault of logic because Austen's world is a microcosm of one level of society, a level wherein everything and everyone turns out kindly, whether they be heroes or villains, rich or poor, or proud or prejudice. This is because unlike conventional romantic novels, like Wuthering Heights, there is no deeply passionate love displayed in this novel, no horrific consequences of being left without an annual inheritance, and even the alleged villains of the piece, like Wickham, are sprinkled with enough of the milk of human kindness as to almost make them preferable over some of the non-villains in the work. Psychologically, this type of mixed-trait character portrayal is realistic of reality because human development occurs as a continual process, one filled with both flaws and successes of character behavior. Richard Simpson (289) explicates this point further in his essay, The Critical Faculty of Jane Austen:
Arthur Morrison’s A Child of the Jago (1896) is intrinsically linked to the social class system and poverty. The novel is set and published during the late Victorian age, a period in which the working class experienced a relentless struggle against the harsh realities of social and working conditions. Moreover, in his paper The Working Class in Britain 1850-1939, John Benson highlights the disparities between the poor and the economy during the era, s a result of the Industrial revolution and urbanisation(Benson, 2003,p.30). Although, Benson's argument is valid when focusing on a social novel such as A Child of the Jago; because through his childhood the protagonist Dickie Perrot commits heinous crimes and becomes incredibly defiant in the old Jago; On the other hand, Benson's argument does not explain how and why an individual would succumb to these acts. Morrison makes it clear in his preface to his readers and critics that he wrote the novel to expose the trails and tribulations of the poor and the grim realities of slum living through the characterization of Dicky Perrot ' It was my fate to encounter a place in Shoreditch, where children were born and reared in circumstances which gave them no reasonable chance of living decent lives: where children were born foredamned to a criminal or semi criminal career' (Morrison, 1897). Despite, the novel being set in the fictional genre, elements of Morrison's personal life is prevalent throughout the text. Morrison originates from a working class background and collaborated with Reverend Osborne to campaigned for a variety of social reforms and slum clearance in the Old Nichol (Matlz, 2003). Thus, the novel is based on the conception of reality rather than fiction ...
The character Nicholas Higgins is an example of a positive working class person during the industrial revolution. Nicholas Higgins is a strong believer that unlike the people from the north, the southerners are a “pack of spiritless, down-trodden men” (Gaskell 133). The possibility of bettering himself unlike the people from the south who don’t know when they are being “put upon” gives him a sense of strength (Gaskell 133) Nicholas takes pride in the fact that he is able to stand up for the things he believes in through striking. The old class system and its beliefs aren’t followed during the industrial revolution. When Margaret Hale attempts to “come and call upon” Nicholas Higgins’s house, he is at first confused and then allows her to visit as a friend (Gaskell 73). Nicholas’s dislike for people from the south is ignored for Margaret Hale and believes that “north and south has both met and made kind o’ friends in the big smokey place”. (Gaskell 73). The angry mob ruins the strike orchestrated by the union and Nicholas Higgins. The strike and angry mob that occurs in the novel is disastrous for Nicholas Higgins and he is unable to get his job back, instead of giving up he tries everything he can for a different job. Higgins believes that he is “sick o’ Milton” and “Milton is sick o’ [him]” when he is unable to find another job and is also looking after John Bouchers eight children. (Gaskell 306) In the beginning, Nicholas Higgins doesn’t have much respect for the factory owners but his respect for the master’s changes through his eventual friendship with John Thornton. Nicholas Higgins’s friendship with John Thornton led him to work “over-hours [one] night, unknown to anyone, to get a neglected piece of work done” because of the problems Thornton was going through (Gaskell 421).
“I raised him up out of nothing, right out of the gutter. I saw right away he was a fine-appearing, gentlemanly young man, and when he told me he was at Oggsford I knew I could use him good.” “Right off he did some work for a client of mine up to Albany.”
James clearly resists historical interpretation which would fill in the blanks with knowledge on social groups. Yet, through analysis of the Governess and Mile’s relationship by placing their narration and dialogue in a socio-historic context the battle is revealed between desires and demands. Awareness of Victorian sexual commencement allows readers to trace the development of the two characters transformations from pupil and teacher to lover and mistress.
As Jane Austen says, “a lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. I knew you would be wishing me joy” (26). Today, for most people, love comes first in the process of matrimony— followed by the actual marriage. Women living in the 1800s have only wealth in mind when deciding who to marry; which is entirely different from individuals today, who consider various aspects of a person other than material objects. In Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, the archetypes of sisters, ritual and the woods/river, the character analysis of Mr. Darcy and the moral lesson that your initial judgments aren’t always right are some of the multifarious that reveal the underlined meaning of the novel.
In 1904 Charles Bean returned to Australia, sailing into Sydney Harbour full of hope for his next adventure and was soon accepted to the New South Wales Bar. As a lawyer, Charles Bean decided to start his own practice. During the process of setting his practice up, however, he began writing articles for the ‘Evening News’, a newspaper Edited by ‘Banjo’ Paterson and worked as an assistant master at Sydney Grammar School. It was at this time that Charles Bean realised he preferred writing and teaching to law. By 1908, Charles Bean had been made a junior reporter for ‘The Sydney Morning Herald’.