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    Menagerie and Great Expectations Humans have a tenuous grip on the concept of time. In some cases‚ one may live in the past as an indication of emotional distress due to preconceived perspectives and can be a nostalgic experience used by individuals to captivate fond memories of past‚ or the past being better than the present. The Wingfields from Tennessee Williams’ written text‚ The Glass Menagerie and persons such as Miss Havisham‚ Pip and Estella from Joseph Hardy’s visual text‚ Great Expectations

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    When people think about a good story‚ some think of the novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. There are many causes for why it is such an amazing piece of literary work‚ but one of the most prominent is how he uses setting to his advantage. In the book‚ Charles Dickens writes about the life of a young boy named Pip. As he grows up and becomes a man‚ he meets many different people and goes to countless places. During his lifetime‚ he goes to the misty marshes‚ the forge where he was raised

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    Stage Two Pips Expectations Pip goes to London to start his new life and to live his dreams of being educated and wealthy. When Pip arrives‚ Mr. Jaggers shows him where he 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

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    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‚ Dickens shows

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    Dickens’ usually expressed his own experiences in life‚ and his moral views through writing. Many of his novels deal with issues of relevancy to the time‚ such as justice and punishment‚ and the massive gap between the rich and poor. In his novel "Great Expectations"‚ he uses the character of Miss Havisham to show some of his experiences in life.

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    Charles Dickens is the best known of the English Victorian novelists. He wrote a great deal about women in Victorian society and the way that roles for women were changing. Prior to these times women were expected to marry and be reliant upon men. Men were deemed to be in charge and any money possessed by women immediately passed to her husband once married. Miss Havisham is the antithesis of the social norm as a self sufficient woman living off her own means. Dickens develops her character throughout

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    they advance further in society; some changes are for the better of the individual‚ others not so much. These changes can be caused by monetary gain‚ advancements in their field of work‚ or a group of new friends. For example‚ in the novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens‚ Pip goes through many changes in hopes of appeasing the heart and standards of the gorgeous yet cold-hearted Estella‚ changes such as being eager to self-improve‚ becoming snobby‚ and being shameful of his origins. From

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    Social class - great expectations Social class is explored through the characters and settings of ‘great expectations’. Different views are shown‚ for how Pip sees and perceives social classes‚ how criminals fit into the social class and how each class is presented by Charles dickens. Dickens presents social class in great expectations as quite rigid but still changing at the same time. It seems that where you are born is where you really belong‚ even if you do have all the gentlemanly qualities

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    This kind of obsession is shown through the protagonist of Dickens’ novel‚ Great Expectations‚ Pip‚ as he visits Miss Havisham and Estella. Obsessions like this are also shown in today’s society‚ (with celebrities‚ status‚ and becoming famous) and such obsessions are created by the media. Regardless of the time period‚ anyone can be exposed to wealth and social status and become unhealthily obsessed. In Great Expectations‚ Pip becomes obsessed with social class‚ wealth‚ and becoming a gentleman

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    a novel is influential to the way readers understand the novel. Therefore‚ different endings of a novel direct readers toward different directions to approach the novel. Unlike his novel novels‚ Dickens have multiple versions of endings for Great Expectations. The most two significant endings are the original one in which Pip sees Estella accidentally sees Estella on street in London‚ and the revised one in which Pip reunites with Estella at Satis House: “I took her hand in mine‚ and we went out

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