A five page paper looking at this little-known work in terms of its affective power. Through a comparison of Johnson s account of his friend s character with the biographical data we have from James Boswell, we can see how Johnson deliberately slanted his account to provide a favorable account of his friend. Bibliography lists three sources. A six page paper looking at the dissension between the upper and lower classes in Maria Edgeworth s Castle Rackrent and Anthony Trollope s An Eye for an Eye. The paper shows that even though the two novels present their arguments very differently, both authors assert that the lower classes are not doormats created for the landed gentry to walk on at will.
Bibliography lists three sources.