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    1 Great Expectations " 1) “Eating and drinking are valued by Dickens as proofs of sociability and ceremonies of love.” Discuss the significance of food and meals in the novel Great Expectations." " Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is a bildungsroman novel following the maturity of Pip as he learns that the values of affection‚ loyalty and conscience are far more important than superficial concerns of social advancement‚ wealth and class. The conversations between characters

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    The Unlimited Miscreant - Trabb ’s Boy "A boy who excited loathing in every respectable mind" (Dickens 304)‚ Trabb ’s Boy is a lively‚ trouble seeking‚ and brutally honest character in Charles Dickens ’s‚ Great Expectations. Even though he appears only a handful of times in the novel his character plays a significant role. As Pip ’s enemy‚ Trabb ’s Boy helps the reader see Pip ’s faults. Trabb ’s Boy ’s most important role is that of Pip ’s rescuer. Trabb ’s Boy has very few speaking parts‚ but

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    <center><b>The World of Laws‚ Crime and Punishment in Great Expectations</b></center> <br>Great Expectations criticises the Victorian judicial and penal system. Through the novel‚ Charles Dickens displays his point of view of criminality and punishment. This is shown in his portraits of all pieces of such system: the lawyer‚ the clerk‚ the judge‚ the prison authorities and the convicts. In treating the theme of the Victorian system of punishment‚ Dickens shows his position against prisons‚ transportation

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    make it more suspenseful they use things such as giving you time to think what might happen and ‚using words to give you an idea of how fast things are happening and why they are doing it like that. They use many of these things many times to create suspense throughout the whole story. One way that time makes the story more suspenseful is by giving you more time to think about what is going to happen. This happened when the sniper light a match but it was dangerous and they waited til the next paragraph

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    Joshua Ashkenazy Mr. Muir English II 21 May‚ 2012 Alternate Ending for Great Expectations Every book has an ending that reflects on certain themes shown previously in the book. In the book Great Expectations by Charles Dickens‚ money‚ power and corruption are the roots of the evils in society. There are certain criteria in making a conclusion to a book. According to my opinion‚ a book must have an ending that shows that the main character has learned from his mistakes and is willing to let go

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    The three basic plot twists in the novel Great Expectations grip the reader’s attention and add impact to the moral themes of the story. The major twists help divide the story into three parts‚ known in the novel as: The stages of Pip’s great expectations. The first twist appears when the young‚ ambitious orphan Pip‚ finds out that he has a secret benefactor; his dreams of becoming a gentleman are about to come true. Pip is certain that his benefactor is the eccentric‚ old lady from Satis House

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    Explore the manipulation of expectations in ‘Great expectations’‚ with particular reference to the first eight chapters. By Narmina Clark Charles Dickens manipulates the reader’s expectations greatly throughout the novel; he does this by focusing mainly on his idea of the ‘social class’ in society and how his characters transform through lessons learnt of their own life experiences. He subtly gives the information across‚ while controlling the readers mind’s with style as he slowly unravels

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    Analyse how character and setting are created in Chapter 1 of Great ExpectationsGreat Expectations’ is a best selling novel‚ written during the reign of Queen Victoria‚ by the well known author Charles Dickens. This novel was serialised as each chapter would be published in a weekly magazine. Dickens would have to deliberately make each chapter interesting and addictive in order for people to buy the next publishing. Throughout chapter 1‚ Dickens portrays the two starting characters with a lot

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    Analysis of Dickens’ use of irony‚ satire and humour in Oliver Twist. There are multiple examples throughout Oliver Twist of irony‚ satire and humour. Although a dark novel‚ there are many moments of humour and an extraordinary amount of chuckling‚ giggling and knee-slapping by characters. Each of the literary techniques of humour‚ irony and satire‚ employed by Dickens help add focus and depth on the various conflicts between the novels outcasts and its established society. It is impossible to cover

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    Copperfield and of course‚ Pip’s ’getting away from it all’ in Clarriker’s in Egypt with Herbert Pocket in Great Expectations. All these examples play very minor roles in Dickens’ fiction - they serve as narrative devices and little else. However‚ one other consequence of Britain’s colonial process - the policy of transportation - plays a far more fundamental part in Great Expectations. It is true‚ however‚ that‚ as Donald Simpson asserts in ’Charles Dickens and the Empire’‚ the concept of transportation

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