GTU-MID-SEM-EXAM-MARCH-2011 GOVERNMENT ENGINEERING COLLEGE ‚ CHANDKHEDA B.E.‚SEMESTER-IV (ALL BRANCH) MANAGEMENT-1 ------------------------------------------------- TIME-60 mins Total Mark 30 ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Instructions:-
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peace offering was a gleam of goodness in the heart of an evil man. In Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations‚ Dickens shows a theme much like Feguer’s‚ that all evil people have potential for goodness. The three major characters who show this are Abel Magwitch‚ Miss Havashim‚ and Estella.
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Great Expectations was a book that describes a humble orphan that had been in a forge doing the dirty work for most his life‚ and then he was taken by his Uncle Pumblechook to basically change his life. Charles Dickens’s life was like that of Pip‚ they both had experienced poverty and both had success at a young age. It was like he had written an autobiography‚ but had changed some things around. Some things in the novel are confusing‚ like I’d like to know what happened to make Miss
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we have read so far‚ Great Expectations‚ Lés Misérables‚ and Wuthering Heights‚ the main characters are faced with negative challenges and influences. Positive guides and influences also affect the characters in these books; the positive guides usually end up winning in the end. In Great Expectations‚ the main character of the story was Pip. Some of the negative influences that Pip faces include poverty‚ low self-esteem‚ abuse‚ fear‚ and lack of love. The poverty that Pip endured may have been
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English Essay – Mister Pip Analyse how contrast between characters helped the author communicate an important message or idea. Mister Pip written by Lloyd Jones is a novel recounted by the protagonist Matilda. Set in 1990’s Bougainville‚ we see Matilda begin to question her Mother’s traditional idea’s about life as a civil war rages between the rebels and the Redskins in her homeland. Mr. Watts or “Pop eye” is given the role teaching the village children‚ being the only educated‚ and consequentially
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Identity in Great Expectations and The Picture of Dorian Gray An old saying goes‚ “you are who your friends are‚” and while many people refuse to believe the statement‚ its message has reigned true for many centuries and will continue to reign true until the end of time. The individuals with whom a person chooses to surround him or herself with greatly impacts the person he or she will inevitably become. In addition to shaping personality and morality‚ friends and peers assist in discerning how
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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 how the love of money does not lead to happiness but rather defiles the soul‚ depriving it of morality and grace
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All great novels have major themes on which the plot is based on‚ and Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations‚ is no different. One of the major themes in this novel is ambition and self-improvement. Dickens uses this as a universal idea for his novel‚ and from this theme he gets his title of Great Expectations. Another major theme in the novel is social class. Dickens uses the theme of social class to feed into his theme of ambition and self-improvement. With both ambition and self-improvement Pip is
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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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In "Great Expectations"‚ the virtuous/vixenish dichotomy is mainly explored through Estella‚ one of the main female characters in the novel‚ and also through Miss Havisham‚ who brought her up from the age of 3‚ and Biddy‚ a simple country girl. Estella begins the novel as "vixenish" character‚ brought up by Miss Havisham to be so. She is cold‚ cynical and manipulative‚ trained to grow up to break the hearts of men. She hurts Pip and crush his feelings continuously‚ and the audience picks up on these
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