Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens

The theme of marriage is a prevalent one throughout the novel, often utilised by Dickens to convey the prominence of values such as wealth and status within its contemporary society. The depiction of marriage in the novel acts as a vehicle through...

Within Charles Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend exist several separate worlds. The lives of the Boffinses are separate from that of Mr. and Mrs. Podsnap, which in turn is separate from the lives of the different members of the Hexam family. The most...