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    Dickens book " Great Expectation" The novel which has been chosen for stylistic analysis belong to a prominent English novelist Charles Dickens "Great Expectation". Charles Dickens was the supporter of the peaceful reforms and he usually divided people into good and bad‚ moreover he believed that good is stronger than evil. That is why many of his heroes of his novels and especially of Great expectorations were poor‚ pity men who earned for living hardly but honestly. Great Expectations is a social

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    November 12th‚ 2012 Fairytales: Just a Fantasy Kids are addicted to fairytales they think it’s very amusing and exciting. Generally many children cannot sleep without having a story be read to them. As a matter of fact that is a very bad habit because fairytales do not help a child’s mind develop‚ it has no advantages and it has a huge negative impact on the brain. Fairytales are very twisted and are a bad influence to kids. Cinderella is a pure example for the disadvantages of fairytales. Basically because

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    way Shakespeare presents the relationship between Joe and Mrs Joe and Macbeth and Lady Macbeth ‘Great Expectations’ and ‘Macbeth’ include many relationships between many characters whether it is friendship or a martial relationship. One of the main relationships that are portrayed in both stories is martial relationship. In ‘Macbeth’‚ Macbeth is married to Lady Macbeth and in ‘Great Expectations’‚ Joe is married to Mrs Joe. These relationships are very important to the plot as we determine whether

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    The Bildungsroman and Pip ’s "Expectations" Rachel Birk On the surface‚ Great Expectations appears to be simply the story of Pip from his early childhood to his early adulthood‚ and a recollection of the events and people that Pip encounters throughout his life. In other words‚ it is a well written story of a young man ’s life growing up in England in the early nineteenth century. At first glance‚ it may appear this way‚ an interesting narrative of youth‚ love‚ success and failure‚ all of which are

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    are revived in the text of Great Expectations. Charles Dickens creates characters and plots that are intertextually linked with the elements of the fatherly ghost and revenge in Hamlet. Pip chronicles his quest for self-discovery and establishing and/or diminishing his relationships with fatherly figures. In doing so he‚ much like Hamlet‚ is challenged by situations filled with revenge and dauntless ghosts. By Dickens integrating the Hamlet motif into Great Expectation‚ he promotes the reader ’s

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    Many people who become wealthy suddenly change. They forget who they are‚ what background they come from‚ and what real friends are like. In 1861‚ Charles Dickens wrote a book called Great Expectations‚ a bildungsroman novel‚ in London‚ England. It is about an ignorant‚ uneducated child‚ who grows up to mature in great wealth and prosperity. He receives a large amount of money to be raised up as a gentleman in London‚ where he leaves his family and friends behind to live the lifestyle of a gentleman

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    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 pitfalls for Pip throughout the book. Estella‚ the

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    How effective are the opening chapters of Great Expectations? Discuss the methods Dickens uses to ensure the readers’ continuing interest. Charles Dickens’ ‘Great Expectations’ was published in 1860 as monthly stories in magazines and newspapers. Dickens’ wrote novels and stories that were seen as social documents which meant that they portrayed what his society was like at the time. The industrial revolution was a time of mass poverty in Britain. There was homelessness‚ unemployment and massive

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    know them. Charles Dickens‚ one of the most well-known authors of all time‚ brings this issue to his readers’ attention. In his novel‚ Great Expectations‚ Charles Dickens portrays the idea that people are perceived inaccurately by others due to their appearance through the characters of Compeyson‚ Estella‚ and Magwitch. For instance‚ in his novel‚ Great Expectations‚ Charles Dickens portrays the idea that people are perceived inaccurately by others due to their appearance through the character of

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    ------------------------------------------------- Great Expectations From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia This article is about the Charles Dickens novel. For other uses‚ see Great Expectations (disambiguation). Great Expectations is Charles Dickens’s thirteenth novel. It is his second novel‚ after David Copperfield‚ to be fully narrated in the first person.[N 1]Great Expectations is a bildungsroman‚ or a coming-of-age novel‚ and it is a classic work of Victorian literature. It depicts the growth

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