Literature often deals with the human drive for wealth and material success. The love of money often exercises a harmful power over individuals‚ causing a conflict both within themselves and with others. Although the characters in A Christmas Carol and Great Expectations assess the value of people only in terms of their financial contributions to society‚ they learn that self respect and dignity can be derived from means other than the possession of money and prestige. Through Scrooge and Pip
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obviously Pip. He is both the narrator and protagonist of the novel. When delving into the characteristics of Pip‚ it is easy to see that for every action Pip does‚ he is thinking of how someone else will view it‚ whether that someone be Estella‚ Miss Havisham‚ Biddy‚ Joe or any other character in this novel. It is easy to say that Pip’s main goals in life were most affected and determined by Estella’s relationship with Pip and also Biddy’s relationship with Pip. His relationship with Estella greatly determined
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When Pip is a young boy he dreams of becoming a hard working blacksmith like his brother in law. while visiting with Mrs. havisham‚ he is made fun of by estella‚ causing him to forever yearn to be a gentleman. Pip is orphaned so long ago that he can’t remember his parents at all and is sent to live with his sister and her husband‚ Joe Gargery. Pip’s sister is very cruel and
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Kristian Brown 8a “Biddy” said I‚ after binder her to secrecy‚ “I want to be a gentleman.” (127). In Charles Dickens‚ Great Expectations‚ an aspiring gentleman‚ Pip‚ encounters several pitfalls. Although Pip does become somewhat of a gentleman‚ he does not reach his true goals. Pip fails in three particular aspirations‚ love‚ self- confidence/respect‚ and popularity among his peers. To conclude Pip fails in his true of becoming a gentleman. Love‚ as one of Pip’s‚ great expectations‚ has several
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In this essay I will compare the two different poems ’Human Interest’ and ’Cousin Kate’. They are written by different poets‚ ’Human Interest’ is written by Carol Ann Duffy‚ whom was born in 1955 which means it is modern twentieth century language. ’Cousin Kate’ is written by Christina Rossetti‚ who was born in 1830 and died in 1984‚ making this pre-twentieth century language. The narrator in ’Human Interest’ is male‚ he is locked up in prison for stabbing his allegedly unfaithful partner. The narrator
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Love is presented as a troubling and destructive emotion in both ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and Duffy’s poem ‘Miss Havisham’. Shakespeare frequently uses oxymorons to convey Romeo’s extreme and conflicting emotions to the audience‚ ‘feather of lead‚ bright smoke‚ cold fire‚ sick health’. These oxymorons imply that everything that Romeo thought he once understood has been reversed due to his love for Rosaline‚ leaving him confused and isolated. ‘Sick health’ in particular highlights the contrast between
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will be staying and gives him a tour around town. He begins to have less and less time for other people outside of his little circle but when he arrives he begins to meet new people. He first meets a man named Herbert Pocket‚ who is related to Miss Havisham. He tells Pip about her past and why she is the way she is now. He tells him the story about her wedding day‚ when she was left at the altar by Compeyson and how he ran off with all her money‚ and how she was so mad that she decided to raise Estella
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Monetary Corruption and the Consequences it has in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Charles Dickens examines how money can corrupt people and sometimes to a point beyond repair. In Great Expectations money is suppose to make people happier and to live easier lives but money will eventually corrupt people and ruin their life. Pip is introduced to a lot of money and becomes corrupt. When Pip becomes corrupt he looses former relationships that he had. The relationships that pip looses are completely
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Feelings are inevitable.You cannot possibly go living day to day without emotionally feeling things. There are many wise and relatable themes from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations‚ that can be integrated into our common culture song themes. Four themes‚ or feelings‚ I have found within the pages of Great Expectations are nostalgia‚ self-esteem‚ regret‚ and painful love. One who is “nostalgic” may feel a deep longing for the past‚ or for what things used to be like. One’s self-esteem can either
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Interactive Oral Commentary: Stealing My name is Kate Sampson and today I will be analysing Carol Ann Duffy’s poem‚ Stealing. To begin with‚ I will provide some background information to help put the themes in this poem into context. It was published in the 1980’s during Margaret Thatcher’s Prime Ministership‚ it is essentially a political poem in response to a new culture of greed and selfishness that ignored the working-class. There were constant poll tax riots‚ miner’s strikes‚ homelessness
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