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    The criminal character is usually the most hated literature‚ but Magwitch in Great Expectations is a little different‚ for many reasons. In the novel‚ Great Expectations by Charles Dickens‚ Magwitch‚ even though he is a criminal‚ earns the reader’s compassion and admiration. The reader’s introduction to Magwitch makes the humanity of the character shine through with his irons on his leg. Magwitch’s childhood is less than ideal‚ which basically leads him to his life of crime‚ and finally‚ the death

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    Why do readers find Great Expectations so enjoyable? Michael Johnson Dickens uses pathetic fallacy to illustrate the predicament that faces the characters in the novel. It also depicts the emotions the characters feel and indicates how the scene is going to change. For example‚ the dramatic weather change‚ conveyed in the line‚ “The evening mist was rising now‚” during the second ending when Estella and Pip meet‚ mirrors the realisation of Pip and Estella’s true feelings for each other.

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    people to experience‚ for it can possibly make them better people. Many characters in Great Expectations have to experience and deal with change as well‚ such as Pip. Independence is a change most people have to experience in their lives‚ and helps shape them into more mature‚ better people. Pip has to be independent for the majority of the book‚ and the experience impacts him positively. In Great Expectations by Charles Dickens‚ the character Philip Pirrip‚ better known as Pip‚ is used to present

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    Great Expectations and Ender’s Game Ender’s game is a book‚ by Orson Scott Card‚ about a young boy named Ender who commits his whole childhood to saving the world from a third alien invasion. Great expectations is a story‚ by Charles Dickens‚ of a young boy who aspires to become a gentleman and out of all odds he is able to make it into higher society. Both Enders game and Great Expectations tell the story of young boys who strive to become something greater than what they are. Although the story

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    Great Expectations: A Character-Driven Novel The novel‚ Great Expectations‚ by Charles Dickens is heavily a character-driven novel due to the fact that the sequence of events in the novel are causes and effects of the actions of the characters as well as the interactions between them. The novel mainly depicts the growth and development of an orphan named Pip‚ who is greatly influenced by the other characters and became a gentleman and a bachelor in the end of the novel through his encounters with

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    Dickens ’s novel “Great Expectations”. Many characters were treated differently because of their social class in the story. Seeing the contrast between how the poor and the rich were treated will give a clearer understanding of how much social class mattered. During the nineteenth century‚ British society was dominated and ruled by a tightly woven system of class distinctions. Social relations and acceptance were based upon position. Charles Dickens utilizes “Great Expectations” as a commentary on

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    When something is done wrong‚ one can’t go back and change it‚ but the guilt can remind them to do better next time or do fix what’s been done. In Great Expectations‚ Charles Dickens describes how some characters treat others cruelly or…. Dickens analyzes how those certain characters feel ashamed of their previous actions and how it brought them anguish. As Pip was walking through the marshes‚ he encounters a convict who threatens him to obtain a file and some food. Pip agrees to do so as he didn’t

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    Great expectations Analysing my story board We are reading Great Expectations and our task was to storyboard the opening scene where Pip encounters he convict‚ Magwitch‚ for the first time. I am going to analyse 3 of the 8 frames. First of all‚ I am going to look at Frame number one‚ this is where Pip is at the cemetery mourning over his lot family. I decided to show Pip at the cemetery looking at his parents and his brother’s graves. I did this because it shows a clear and rich understanding

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    The coming-of-age novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is a captivating story about a young boy named Pip who is experiencing all of life’s changes as he grows up. Throughout the book the reader see’s Pip grow for better or worse. Pip’s expectations grow in three stages. The first stage is Pip wanting so badly to be a respectable‚ wealthy gentleman‚ the second is Pip becoming a gentleman in hopes that Estella‚ a cruel hearted wealthy girl‚ will love him. Stage three is when he finally comes

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    One theme from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations is the great difference in social classes. Throughout the story the main character‚ Pip‚ goes from living in a small‚ poor village‚ destined to be a blacksmith to becoming a wealthy gentleman who lives in a large home in London. During Pip’s journey a clear divide can be seen between the wealthy‚ high class of England and the poor laborer class. This divide between classes is seen as soon as the first higher class person in the story is mentioned:

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