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    It’s Just Cutting Bread Charles Dickens‚ in his novel Great Expectations‚ conveys the trenchant behavior of Pip’s sister‚ Ms. Joe. Dickens purpose is to understand life from Pip’s point of view through his fear. Dickens expresses an aggressive tone in order to thoroughly identify the forceful behavior while Mrs. Joe is cutting the bread. Dickens intensifies the paragraph by using great detail in explaining how mean and cruel Mrs. Joe actually is. Charles features professional diction in order

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    From the kind and noble Joe‚ to the heart-breaking Estella‚ the idiosyncrasies that Dickens develops among his characters make them both enjoyable and memorable. Their personality‚ physical features‚ actions‚ and feelings all contribute to the lovable characters in Great Expectations. Estella‚ Miss Havisham‚ Wemmick‚ and Joe are produced from the many characteristics that make them pleasant and unforgettable. These characters are what makes this book so profound. They add to the excitement‚ suspense

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    Great Expectations Whose Life is it Anyway? How do you determine whether the life you are living is the life you call your own? Many people may find themselves being lead through life as opposed to leading their own because of external influences. This is the case of Pip‚ the protagonist in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. Great Expectations is a classic novel about a young‚ lower class boy whose life is forever changed from exposure to an upper class woman named Miss Havisham. One can

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    Katerina Klingensmith  Mrs. Drebus   Honors English 10: 7  22 August 2014  Outline   Thesis: The two Aphorisms here are trying to tell you that your life is short and you need to live it to the fullest  before it is too late.   I. “ It is better to die on your feet that to live on your knees”  A. Euripides   1. Born in Athens‚ Greece‚ around 485 B.C. Married a woman named Meleto and had 3 sons.  His family was most likely a prosperous one; his father was named Mnesarchus or Mnesarchide‚ and his 

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    In the novel “Great Expectations” written by Charles Dickens the story is about moral redemption and self discovery. Pip‚ the protagonist‚ struggles to find out who he is in his life‚ he struggles to find his great expectations‚ but at the same time wanting to be morally redeemed for all the bad things he thinks he does throughout his story. Through out the story‚ Pip is always trying to have a clean conscious‚ so when he helps an escaped convict the guilt almost swallows him up. The convict terrifies

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    showing that it produces good deeds as well as good words. Its admirable briskness is nowhere more apparent than in Pip¡¦s account of the feelings with which he once greeted the prospect of a visit from his old friend and protector‚ the blacksmith Joe Gargery. ¡§Not with pleasure‚ though I was bound to him by so many ties‚ with considerable disturbance‚ some mortification‚ and a keen sense of incongruity. If I could have kept him away by paying money‚ I certainly would have paid money.¡¨ (218)

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    Society paints a twisted picture that money is the one and only important thing. Dickens shows us this theme in the novel‚ Great Expectations. Money isn’t everything‚ yet society teaches us that social status and position are things we should look for in life‚ instead of happiness with others and ourselves‚ and pip lives and breathes what society shows us as right. Dickens shows how money thirsty society is through characterization and plot; that life becomes all about what others think‚ not happiness

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    the story‚ is a product of his character as it exists after the events of the story. Pip’s narration thus reveals the psychological endpoint of his development in the novel. Pip’s behavior as a character often reveals only part of the story—he treats Joe coldly‚ for instance—while his manner as a narrator completes that story: his guilt for his poor behavior toward his loved ones endures‚ even as he writes about his early life years later. Of course‚ Dickens manipulates Pip’s narration in order to evoke

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    张雪 英语1004 Pip’s great expectations can be treated as a dramatic exploration of human growth and fame that distort the value of an ordinary people and make him lose his original virtues . Pip‚as a simple blacksmith’s boy ‚ intends to challenge the social boundaries . Although His dream is just to be a common blacksmith at first‚ his dream has gradually changed since he goes to Miss Havisham’s house as a company. It’s quite inevitable that people change as the environment changes. Life in Miss Havisham’s

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    Faith R. Sims Eng3010 11/24/2005 Great Expectations Hollywood and the movie industry have made many bold attempts over the past decade in bringing to life old classics. None however in my opinion have been done more boldly than the remoulding of Charles Dickens ’s Great Expectations. This compelling piece is a rebirth storyline of the past retold in Modern times. Any attempt at bringing a Dickens work to the screen would be an awesome task to accomplish. I ’ve found his writing to

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