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    How does Dickens use setting in ’Great Expectations’ to show characters feelings &+ situations? Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth‚ Hampshire‚ during the Victorian era. In 1822‚ when Dickens was ten‚ the family relocated from Kent [where they had moved when Dickens was 5] to Camden Town‚ London. These places of residence are symbolic of certain occurances in Dickens life; throughout the novel‚ these areas play an avid role in the creation and development of the characters situations and feelings

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    Q1. Both nick and Gatsby have powerful imaginations that distort their views of reality. Discuss how this trait helps to develop their relationship and characterisation. Both Nick and Gatsby personify their views of reality throughout the novel‚ whereas Gatsby is deluding himself into seeing the world he has made up in his head Nick is the one observing this and telling the reader his perspective. An example of this is shown through how know one truly knows who Gatsby is‚ thinking he ‘killed a man’

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    Deceptive appearance People‚ often are able to put illusions into someone’s head‚ which can manipulate how they think and this affects the person’s judgment on what is reality. Illusions can be mistaken as being reality‚ very often there is a person making another person believe in the illusion and this creates a deceptive appearance. Throughout the play‚ “Othello”‚ by William Shakespeare‚ the characters are seen to be blinded by love and manipulated by words. The play is also built on false friendship

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    Great Expectations and A Christmas Carol: A True Gentleman According to Dictionary.com‚ a gentleman is a civilized‚ educated‚ sensitive‚ or well-mannered man. However‚ by Victorian definition‚ a gentleman was‚ perhaps most importantly‚ a rich man. “Charles Dickens…was an author of relatively humble origins who desired passionately to be recognized as a gentleman‚ and insisted‚ in consequence‚ upon the essential dignity of his occupation” (Victorian Web). In Great Expectations he portrays Pip‚ a

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    For an individual to belong‚ they must fulfil their society’ies expectations.‚in doing so‚ further Aanalysis of the book ’The gGreat Eexpectations’ composed by Charles Dickens revealshas been made apparent that an aspect of family belonging‚ where Pip‚ the main character tries to live up to societies expectations of being a gentlemen.‚Tthis can be seen where Magwitch uses first person‚ evident in the direct speech ‘Yes‚ Pip‚ dear boy‚ I’ve made a gentleman ofn you! It’s me wot has done it! I swore

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    novel Great Expectations is an excellent example of how a well developed plot‚ and many subplots hidden within the main‚ can create many twists and turns and make what may seem like a ‘fairy tale’ story a much more interesting and complex one. The protagonist of the navel is a seven year old boy named Pip.

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    Universial Themes in "The Return of the Native" and "Great Expectations" Classic novels usually share in the aspect of universal themes which touch people through out the ages. All types of audiences can relate to and understand these underlying ideas. Victorian novels such as Thomas Hardy ’s The Return of the Native and Charles Dickens ’ Great Expectations are examples of literary classics that have universal themes. Hardy ’s tale illustrates the role of chance in his characters lives

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    Analysis: Chapters 1–3 The first chapters of Great Expectations set the plot in motion while introducing Pip and his world. As both narrator and protagonist‚ Pip is naturally the most important character in Great Expectations: the novel is his story‚ told in his words‚ and his perceptions utterly define the events and characters of the book. As a result‚ Dickens’s most important task as a writer in Great Expectations is the creation of Pip’s character. Because Pip’s is the voice with which he tells

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    Here‚ Alex Kotlowitz use many different examples to develop the theme of his book‚ representation vs. reality. Representation is how places‚ people and ideas have been presented to us in words or images‚ it often show us only part of the picture or even the wrong picture. It may create stereotype. Reality‚ different from representation‚ it might be some truth that we do not want to believe. Reality is the state of things as they actually exist‚ rather than as they may appear or might be imagined

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    feel shame for his rough clothing and hands (Bloom‚ Great Expectations). Estella leaves to go study abroad and Pip is surprised to learn that a mysterious benefactor will help him become a gentleman in London (Bloom‚ Great Expectations). In London‚ Pip lives with his friend Herbert‚ who renamed him‚ Handel (Bloom‚ Great Expectations). A month after Pip is settled‚ Joe visits Pip and is taken aback by Pip’s hurtful formality (Bloom‚ Great Expectations). Joe tells Pip that Estella has returned from her

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