Backyard At The Blue Bargery's Dream

Along the journey of life, dreams surface and are either achieved or lost, as each person walks their own path, but shaping one’s dreams into reality is an arduous task. The novel, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens follows a character named Pip from childhood to adulthood. In Pip’s journey, his dreams and the dreams of other characters beside him prove to be elusive and hard to grasp. The articles from the newspaper, Backyard at the Blue Boar, all have their roots in the theme of dreams and their elusiveness.
The advertisement for the publishing of wildly popular novel by Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland invites a reader to tumble down the rabbit hole with Alice into a world of dreamlike proportions. The stage Alice in Wonderland is a world created from Alice’s dreams, and thus, directly relates to the prevalence of dreams in Great Expectations. The wedding announcement below the advertisement announces that Joe Gargery and Biddy have tied the knot and married. In the occurrence of this event, Pip’s dream of marrying Biddy and traveling to make the world a better place by being together die. The wedding of Biddy and Joe mark that Pip’s dream of a marriage with Biddy will forever remain a buried dream. The article about the Passing of the Public Libraries Act describes how Parliament passed an act proposed by the Free Library Movement, allowing boroughs to found centers of information to the public. This article shows how England took the first step towards providing education for the masses, which would allow the dreams of citizens to take root and become tangible, because knowledge was no longer only accessible by a select few. The interview of Miss Havisham from
Similarly, The entirety of the newspaper, “Backyard at the Blue Boar” explores the underlying theme of the exploration of dreams that often prove