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    Great Expectations Brief Synopsis The novel begins with the main character‚ Pip‚ encountering a runaway convict. Pip procures supplies for the man from his house. The convict then gets into a fight with another runaway convict and is take back to jail. Pip is soon after invited to the house of Miss Havisham‚ a rich‚ eccentric old lady who lives in isolation. Pip gets to know her adopted daughter Estella during his visit and begins to have feelings of love for her. However‚ it is not easy for

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    Estella Havisham: Most readers are appalled at the cold-hearted and cruel ways of Estella‚ but any criticism directed at her is largely undeserved. She was simply raised in a controlled environment where she was‚ in essence‚ brainwashed by Miss Havisham. Nonetheless‚ her demeanor might lead one to suspect that she was a girl with a heart of ice. Estella is scornful from the moment she is introduced‚ when she remarks on Pip’s coarse hands and thick boots. However‚ her beauty soon captivates Pip and

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    Sharon Verhoef‚ 1A Literature 1B The Symbolic Importance of Fire in Great Expectations Fire as a symbol can stand for a lot of different things. It represents warmth‚ understanding‚ desire and destruction. In Great Expectations fire is used repeatedly. In this novel fire plays a big role in making the reader understand more about the characters and the story. In the beginning of the novel fire is displayed as something warm and good. You can ask yourself the question “How can fire be essential

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    Great Expectation By: Charles Dickens Date of Publication 1861 ( In book form ) Pip - The protagonist and narrator of Great ExpectationsPip begins the story as a young orphan boy being raised by his sister and brother-in-law in the marsh country of Kent‚ in the southeast of England. Pip is passionate‚ romantic‚ and somewhat unrealistic at heart‚ and he tends to expect more for himself than is reasonable. Pip also has a powerful conscience‚ and he deeply wants to improve himself‚ both morally

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    Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Great Expectations is a bildungsroman‚ or a coming-of-age novel‚ published by Chapman & Hall in 1861‚ the story it’s set among the Marshes of Kent in London in the early-to-mid 1800s. This is the story about Pip‚ an orphan boy who lives with his sister who is married the blacksmith‚ the story follows the life of this boy‚ from his awakening to life. The main characters are Pip‚ Mrs. Joe‚ Joe Gargery‚ Miss Havisham‚ Estella‚ Abel Magwitch.‚ Mr. Jaggers

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    understand what your heart used to be” (Dickens 284). The three major themes of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens are social status and character‚ growing pains‚ and revenge. In the novel‚ social class determines how a person is viewed and treated in society‚ but it does not define the character of a person. Pip realizes that class and wealth are less important that loyalty and affection. For example‚ “...Miss Havisham up town‚ - as an immensely rich and grim lady who lived in a large and dismal

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    Charles Dickens uses the dominant idea of abusiveness in his novel Great Expectations. He applies abusive behaviors in the personalities of his characters. Both the protagonist and antagonist are often treated poorly or routinely abused. The author uses negative aspects of their lives to highlight the emptiness and abusive environment of unhealthy relationships. In the beginning of the novel‚ Mrs. Joe often hits Pip with the tickler “a wax-ended piece of cane‚ worn smooth by collision

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    novel Great Expectations there are many examples of imprisonment. Dickens created the characters Estella‚ Herbert‚ and Molly with a lack of freedom. These three characters were imprisoned because they could not make their own choices. Estella had very little freedom. Miss Havisham controlled every aspect of her life. She was forced to carry out Miss Havisham’s revenge on men‚ and she tortured Pip only because she had been raised and told to do so. The first time they met‚ Miss Havisham told

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    Great Expectations - Charles Dickens: Part 1 Early Chapters Throughout these early scenes it is clear that there is a feeling of evil pervading. The evil comes not so much from Magwitch or even the ‘Terrible young man’ that Pip so fears as a young lad‚ but rather the presence of the gibbet and the nearby reference to the ‘hulks that appear “like a wicked Noah’s Ark.” It is a symbol of evil that is presently at hand as well as foreshadowing future ills. In this chapter we can see that the presence

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    Alexander Period 4 Knox 1/24/2011 Great Expectations Timed Write Essay In the passage provided from Chapter 37 of Great Expectations the characters of PipMiss Skiffins‚ Wemmick‚ and the Aged P use adequately calm and gentle actions to provide a safe and homely setting for Pip. This passage begins with a description of a post meal event where Pip feels “warm” and “greasy”. The Aged P‚ Wemmick‚ and Miss Skiffins moved around in a gentle manner as Miss Skiffins “washed up the tea-things‚ in

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