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  OLIVER TWIST   1.      Chapter 1 | Page 1 ‘ Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small: to wit, a workhouse; and in this workhouse was born; on a day and date which I need not trouble myself to repeat, inasmuch as it can be of no possible consequence to the reader, in this stage of the business at all events; the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to the head of this chapter. ’   ·        Dickens presents his satirical language style to the reader from the first sentence. Conversation, rhetoric, and length of sentences are complementary elements of judgmental utterance. Ironically, Dickens's harsh criticism throughout the book, and his condemnation in more overtly sentimental and serious terms, is meant to underline the char...

  EMMA   1.      Chapter 1 | Page 12 ‘And you have forgotten one matter of joy to me,’ said Emma, ‘and a very considerable one—that I made the match myself. I made the match, you know, four years ago; and to have it take place, and be proved in the right, when so many people said Mr. Weston would never marry again, may comfort me for anything.’   ·        Jane Austen is a writer focusing on three themes. These are courtship, love and marriage. Here, we begin to read that the character of Emma is a matchmaker to those around her on the matter of marriage. She is a character that reflects the characteristics of the period and plays a big role especially in marriage. She herself does not want to get married, but she wants to marry everyone around her. From beginning to the end, we read about marriages, and I think that Jane Austen reflected the marriage system of the Victorian Period very well.   2.  ...