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    Havisham by Carol Ann Duffy The poem “Havisham” is a dramatic piece told by the only character Miss Havisham herself‚ a character from Charles Dickens “Great Expectations”. Abandoned by her lover at the alter many years before the poem is set‚ she still wears her wedding dress‚ she’ll be wearing it for the rest of her life‚ while she plots revenge on all men. She hates what she has become‚ she hates knowing that she still and always will have her maiden name‚ in fact the poet cleverly used the characters

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    Meagher-DiEllo Period 4B 5 April 2013 Imprisonment in Great Expectations. Charles Dickens used Miss Havisham as a symbol of hypothetical imprisonment. Miss Havisham; although not being physically imprisoned as Abel Magwitch‚ was a strong representation of a mental imprisonment. She was never told to stay locked up in her house rotting away and tormenting herself for years without any human interaction besides that of her step-daughter Estella and eventually Pip. She not only physically imprisons herself

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    The various‚ unqualified mothers of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations inflict major‚ negative consequences on their children in both mental and physical ways. Two of the female characters‚ find themselves ill-equipped for their position because of pride‚ jealousy‚ and a general inability to support their offspring. Furthermore‚ the other two abusive mothers raise their offspring with menace and ruthlessness which leads to major social complications in their childrens’ lives. To begin‚ two of the

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    experienced a majority of the abuse‚ as the men in the family wanted to physically employ their dominant nature. In a similar vane‚ Charles Dickens used Great Expectations to show the absurdity of the desensitization of domestic abuse in the Victorian Era‚ he reflected this in characters such as‚ Drummle‚ Estella‚ Mrs. Joe‚ and Orlick. The abuse Pip faces as a child leads him to crave release from the world around him‚ and gave him the need to find love. Because of to the constant power struggle in

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    [him] in [his] grave‚ and [he] had contuma- ciously refused to go there." Pip is made to feel guilty not only for being so much "trouble" but also for his lack of gratitude. He is not grateful for his ill-treatment‚ of course‚ but is full of suppressed rage. During his sister’s recital of his "misdemeanors‚" Wopsle’s Roman nose so aggravates Pip that he "should have liked to pull it until he howled" (ch. 4). Another reason Pip is regarded as ungrateful is that he is not perceived as having any rights

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    WHO IS MISS HAVISHAM? (Analysing the life of Miss Havisham and Dickens’s use of grammar) Miss Havisham and Satis House‚ both in ruins‚ represent wealth and social status for Pip the servant boy; the irony is obvious. Their decayed state prefigures the emptiness of Pip’s dream of rising in social status and of so being worthy of Estella the adopted daughter of Miss Havisham. With them‚ Dickens extends his spoof of society from the abuse of children and criminals to the corruption of wealth. Miss

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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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    The story written by Mister Pip is a fascinating account and an important literary discovery on a remote island. It should be treated as a perfect model of writing. The prose of Jones is interesting as he does not use purple language. He prefers to use crisp‚ precise language that naturally makes his story a coherent and cohesive one. The main character Maltida‚ the narrator offers her unique story to add to the beauty of the novel. Her voice is unique and consistent in this regard. The theme of

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    Great Expectations a novel by Charles Dickens takes reader on an epic adventure filled with unexpected encounters with a myriad of people with vastly different backgrounds that ultimately shape Pip into the man that he becomes. Pip moves from the social class that he was born to‚ to one that he is elevated to by an anonymous benefactor. The two people that typify the conventional expectations of romanticism and realism are Pip the protagonist and Joe Gargery the humble blacksmith. Joe clearly shows

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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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