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    1. Love Love is an emotion‚ where there is no wrong definition‚ for it suits each and every person differently‚ however some characteristics are the same amongst everybody. Pip thinks he is in love‚ but in my paper I investigate if it s a real desire of infatuation for Estella‚ or just a first big crush which lasted through out his teenage years. Pip s love for Estella is usually a one-way street‚ at least in his eyes. From the moment Pip meets her‚ he feels an attraction towards her. At the

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    In the novel “Great Expectations” written by Charles Dickens the story is about moral redemption and self discovery. Pip‚ the protagonist‚ struggles to find out who he is in his life‚ he struggles to find his great expectations‚ but at the same time wanting to be morally redeemed for all the bad things he thinks he does throughout his story. Through out the story‚ Pip is always trying to have a clean conscious‚ so when he helps an escaped convict the guilt almost swallows him up. The convict terrifies

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    r l e s   d i c k e n s  :   b i o g . Charles John Huffam Dickens was born February 7‚ 1812 in Portsmouth‚ Hampshire‚ England. Shortly thereafter his family moved to Chatham‚ and Dickens considered his years there as the happiest of his childhood. In 1822‚ the family moved to London‚ where his father worked as a clerk in the navy pay office. Dickens’ family was considered middle class‚ however‚ his father had a difficult time managing money. His extravagant spending habits brought the family

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    Great Expectations‚ written by Charles Dickens‚ was first published in the years between 1860 and 1861. It is known as a bildungsroman. In this essay I will discuss the role of education‚ moral awareness and social class and how these have an impact on the life of the main protagonist‚ Pip‚ a country boy received an opportunity to go to London and pursue his dream of becoming an educated gentleman. He received money from a secret benefactor‚ Abel Magwitch‚ a criminal he encounters right in the beginning

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    degree plus a well-pay career bring you wealth. Being poor to wealthy or being rich and staying rich as a child to an adult‚ does the wealth usually bring you happiness? In the novel "Great Expectation‚" Pip is a character who as a child become a wealthy person from a poor background family. As he grew up in a poor childhood‚ an opportunity came up for him to become rich and surely he took that opportunity from a secret benefactor which was Magwitch‚ Pip convict. Now being wealthy‚ Pip thought that it

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    The evolution of a person can be complicated when one has "great expectations." In Charles Dickens’ finest novel‚ "Great Expectations‚" a young boy named Phillip Pirrup known as Pip who’s great expectations are a dramatized exploration of human growth and the pressures that distort the potential of an ordinary individual‚ especially in the process of growing up. Pip is a simple blacksmith’s boy who aspires to cross social boundaries when he realizes his own upbringing is common; however‚ he has no

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    Great Expectations Whose Life is it Anyway? How do you determine whether the life you are living is the life you call your own? Many people may find themselves being lead through life as opposed to leading their own because of external influences. This is the case of Pip‚ the protagonist in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. Great Expectations is a classic novel about a young‚ lower class boy whose life is forever changed from exposure to an upper class woman named Miss Havisham. One can

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    Great Expectations – Class Notes Chapter 1-5 Major characters: Pip‚ Graveyard digger man‚ mr and mrs gargery‚ uncle p‚ mr w Plot: Prisoner told pip to get food‚ chirtsmas time Themes: Honesty‚ family‚ fear Social Class: Working class Children seen not heard Married couples don’t love each other (arranged marriages) Relationships: Joe is close to Pip   Chapter 5-7ish Pip’s parents are dead Pip’s sister is raising Pip Pip’s sister is mean Themes: how do men know who they are? Lower

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    Great Expectations Short Paper By Jodi Lesesne Great Expectations Introduction The novel Great Expectations is one among many works written by Charles Dickens. Dickens uniquely writes and narrates the novel in first person‚ and builds up a strong case of mature Victorian literature. The novel revolves around the growth of a young and orphaned boy named Pip. The book’s settings are the marshes found in Kent in London and all the occurrences date back to the early phase of the 1800s. The

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    Riya Bhatt October 18‚2013 Great Expectations In Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations‚ Herbert Pocket describes Pip as "a good fellow‚ with impetuosity and hesitation‚ boldness and diffidence‚ action and dreaming‚ curiously mixed in him." Although Pip does not agree with this description‚ I believe Herbert’s depiction is accurate. Pip’s impetuousness can be seen by his comment‚ "We spent as much money as we could‚ and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to give us."

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