Tray #6
iambarr | December 14, 2008
we spent as much money as we could, and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to give us. we were always more or less miserable, and most of our acquaintances were in the same condition. there was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and [...]
iambarr | December 4, 2008
That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But, it is much the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of [...]
iambarr | December 1, 2008
Doubles
One of the most remarkable aspects of Dickens’s work is its structural intricacy and remarkable balance. Dickens’ plots involve complicated coincidences, extraordinarily tangled webs of human relationships, and highly dramatic developments in which setting, atmosphere, event, and character are all seamlessly fused.
In Great Expectations, perhaps the most visible sign of Dickens’ commitment to intricate dramatic [...]
iambarr | November 8, 2008
“In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong. I had no intercourse with the world at that time and I imitated non of its many inhabitants who act in this manner. Quite an [...]
