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    Great Expectations Do our views of Magwitch change during the course of the novel? Great Expectations is about an ordinary‚ working class boy who suddenly finds himself with a secret benefactor who wants to make him into a rich gentleman. The boy comes to learn some hard lessons in life. In this story Dickens wants us to realise that being rich is not the most important thing in life compared to love and loyalty. Pip meets a convict in the graveyard where the story starts. The convict scares

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    My Name Is Philip Pirrip

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    My name is Philip Pirrip‚ but when I was a child‚ I could not say my name properly. I called myself Pip‚ and since then everybody began to call me by that name. I have never known my mother and father. They both died when I was an infant. My only sister brought me up who was married to a blacksmith whose name is Joe Gargery. My story begins on a cold‚ grey winter afternoon in the churchyard where my parents are buried. I would often go to their graves and look down at the words

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    The novel Great Expectations follows the story of a young boy‚ Pip‚ who realizes his identity as he strives to be above his social class‚ and shows the development and changes in his character. Pip’s personality traits change through interaction with other people in the course of this story. Although Pip was brought up in a harsh and poor background‚ with a punishing sister‚ who had brought him up “by hand”‚ he was gentle and kind. However‚ after his encounter with Miss Havisham and Estella‚ his

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    Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is about a boy named Pip who travels to London to become a gentleman. Pip is in his sister’s custody because both of their parents died. Pip grows up abused by his sister and confides in Joe Gargery‚ his sister’s husband. He often visits the graveyard where his parents are buried‚ when he is forced to help a convict. Pip is later invited to Miss Havisham’s house and meets Estella and falls in love with her. After knowing Miss Havisham for a while Pip receives

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    Ana Perez Mr. Scofield Advanced Placement Literature 23 September‚ 2015 In the novel‚ In Great Expectations‚ Philip Pirrip‚ who is also known as Pip‚ experiences various stages of moral maturity. He transforms from a young boy filled with shame and guilt to a selfish‚ young man‚ and finally into a man who has a true concern for others. Pip goes through three stages in the novel; shame and guilt‚ self-gratification‚ and his stage of redemption. This exposure functions as a window opening

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    Pip's Perceptions

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    Pip’s Perceptions Pip’s changing perceptions of himself‚ the world‚ and the people he interacts with are affected by various characters throughout Stage One of the book Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. In this section of the story‚ Pip’s life is centered upon the Forge and the Satis House. The characters in these settings alter and shape his developing character and paradigms of the world by either nurturing and caring for him‚ treating him without regard to his feelings‚ or by exposing him

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    liked both to the lives of ordinary citizens and the future of Russia itself. Crime and Punishment relies heavily on the atmosphere of St. Petersburg to evoke its themes of poverty‚ isolation‚ and immorality. Critic I.F.I Evnin deems it “the first great Russian novel in which

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    stillness of the air grew quite oppressive‚ and the silence was so marked that the bleating of a sheep inland or the barking of a dog in the town was distinctly heard‚ and the band on the pier‚ with its lively French air‚ was like a discord in the great harmony of nature’s silence. (Stoker 84/85) In just these few

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    Miss Havisham

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    atmosphere of both the house and miss Havisham. As he walks to her he notices that all the clocks have stopped at twenty to nine and she says: "Look at me‚ you are not afraid of a woman who has not seen the sun since you were born?". Dickens uses a great deal of straight forward language in the novel relating to death and decay‚ especially in his description of Miss Havisham. She openly talks about having her heart broken. Pip notices that it is kind of like she has stopped living and that her life

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    Biddy vs Estella

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    Biddy vs. Estella The main character of this novel is very 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

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