Babies Ever After: What happens to Kate and Frank Cheeryble and Nicholas and Madeline Bray.

Needless to say, Hawk does not take it well and plans to seek revenge. Another example is that Sir Mulberry Hawk, who for much of the novel tries to humiliate Kate and therefore damaging her good name, ends up being publicly humiliated himself when Nicholas' attack over him results in a crash that leaves him injured. For example, Wackford Squeers, who is often known for sadistically beating children, gets the living daylights beaten out of him by Nicholas.

A Taste of Their Own Medicine: Nicholas Nickleby often dishes these out to those who wronged those he cares about.

Nickleby, who can't keep on the same subject for more than two or three sentences.

Arthur Gride is absent in the 2002 film, and Sir Mulberry Hawk takes his role as Madeline's Abhorrent Admirer.

In the 2001 version, Tim Linkinwater and the entire Kenwigs family are nowhere to be seen.

Adaptational Attractiveness: The Squeers are hideous and grossly overweight in the book and 2001 miniseries, but are no worse than average and much thinner in the 2002 film.

Fanny Squeers to Nicholas, because she's ugly and the daughter of Wackford Squeers, who abuses the children in his care.

Abhorrent Admirer: Arthur Gride to Madeline Bray, since he's old, ugly, greedy and lecherous Sir Mulberry Hawk to Kate, since he's a cad.

For those interested, that one can be watched here. It also was adapted into an incredibly faithful, 8.5 hour long stage production by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1980. The novel spawned several film and television adaptations, including one in 2002 with Charlie Hunnam as Nicholas, Christopher Plummer as Ralph, and Jamie Bell as Smike, with a supporting cast including Anne Hathaway and Nathan Lane, among others. Like many other Dickens novels, this story centers on the social conflicts of the time, especially child abuse and harsh working conditions, and relies on satire to get the point across Wackford Squeers, the headmaster, seems too outrageous to be true until one remembers that Dickens based him on a real life Yorkshire schoolmaster named William Shaw. Meanwhile, his sister Kate, working as a milliner and lady's companion, faces her own challenges in the form of demanding employers, jealous co-workers and unwanted male attention. Grudgingly assisted by his uncle, Ralph Nickleby, the title character Nicholas finds work as a teaching assistant at Dotheboys Hall, possibly the most famous Boarding School of Horrors in the history of literature, and struggles with the moral dilemma of keeping his livelihood vs. Charles Dickens' third novel, originally written in serial form, is about a young upper-middle-class man forced to support his mother and sister after his father's death and financial ruin.

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