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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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    c h a 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

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    Humour is a phenomenon which is influenced by culture. It can be difficult to determine what aspects define a certain sense of humour. A nation’s wit is linked to the historical development of the country. How funny somebody finds a certain incident depends on many factors including age‚ personal experience‚ level of education and geographical location. Therefore humour is something which is not always transferrable in another country. What somebody from one area may find hilarious may not be amusing

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    Matthew Fine LaScotte English 9 Great Expectations For Pip‚ the first conflict that he encounters is when he is leaving Manor House from his second visit with Ms. Havisham’s‚ he fights with a young man in the garden. This conflict leaves Pip quite dumbfounded because the thought that a random stranger would just walk up to him that wants to fight is strange. At first‚ it might seem like Pip was scared that he would be fighting a boy that he didn’t know and felt like he had no reason to fight

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    Revenge‚ Sometimes Better Left Alone Society perceives revenge to be a one-way street to get back at someone‚ where only the single person ends up getting hurt. In Great Expectations‚ Charles Dickens exemplifies revenge as a devious act that causes multiple people to get hurt. Miss Havisham received a broken heart on her wedding day‚ and ever since‚ she has been scheming a way to get back at the male gender. The likes of Miss Havisham and Orlick are set on exacting their revenge on someone

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    Dickens displays how children were treated in the Victorian era one of his books: Great Expectations in which a gentleman Pip is retelling his life story growing up in a village near London. He had always wanted to grow up to become a gentleman and escape his “common status”. As a child Pip is not respected or loved by his sister and other adults and beaten regularly. What Dickens suggests in the novel Great Expectations is that people often grow to have emotional or physical problems due to their mistreatment

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    in school and later went to college and getting a master 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

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    Summary 40-42 Pip feels a mixture of revulsion for the convict and fear for the convict’s safety. Apparently‚ someone followed the convict the night he arrived at Pip’s apartment and later Pip stumbles over someone hiding in the dark at the bottom of his apartment stairs. While the convict has come to England to see Pip and enjoy flaunting the gentleman he has made‚ Pip tells him he is in danger and that they need to lay low. The convict tells Pip his name is Abel Magwitch and that he is using the

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    In an arm-chair‚ with an elbow resting on the table and her head leaning on that hand‚ sat the strangest lady I have ever seen‚ or shall ever see. She was dressed in rich materials‚—satins‚ and lace‚ and silks‚—all of white. Her shoes were white. And she had a long white veil dependent from her hair‚ and she had bridal flowers in her hair‚ but her hair was white. Some bright jewels sparkled on her neck and on her hands‚ and some other jewels lay sparkling on the table. Dresses‚ less splendid

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    Lucetta contrasted with Elizabeth-Jane from "The mayor of Casterbridge"    ‘The Mayor of Casterbridge’‚ is a novel written by the famous English novelist Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)‚ and is set in somewhere around 1830‚ when England was on the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. Hardy describes this novel as ‘A Story of Character’ as it revolves around Michael Henchard‚ its male protagonist and at times its antagonist‚ however to successfully keep the book interesting and add the feminine touch

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