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    Twelfth Night Comedy in Other Writings While Great Expectations and Gulliver’s Travels were not written as comedy‚ humor is seen in them. The comedy in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night can be related to the comedy in those writings‚ although Shakespeare used a variety of comedic techniques‚ not used in either Great Expectations or Gulliver’s Travels. The comedy in Twelfth Night varies greatly from the comedy in Great Expectations and Gulliver’s Travels at times. Irony is a common comedic element seen

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    Preliminary Activities Bougainville: Book: Narnia made a big impression on me. I don’t really like books‚ but I like this book. It’s about an amazing world‚ and it has a good story. Person: This summer I went to Japan. I stayed some days at a Zen temple in Kyoto. There I met a very wise monk. He taught me a lot of interesting things. I learned a lot of him. Section 1 (p. 1-49) 1. Character list * Mr Watts (Pop eye) * ‘Everyone called him Pop Eye’ *

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    Havisham‚ a rich woman he knew as child. With this assumption came the expectation that she became his benefactor in order for him to be able to marry her niece‚ Estella. This caused him to replace his family and those who care for him with Estella‚ who had

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    the themes of their works is an individual that undergoes several major changes throughout the story. In Great Expectations‚ Charles Dickens introduces the reader to many intriguing and memorable characters‚ including the eccentric recluse‚ Miss Havisham‚ the shrewd and careful

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    obviously Pip. He is both the narrator and protagonist of the novel. When delving into the characteristics of Pip‚ it is easy to see that for every action Pip does‚ he is thinking of how someone else will view it‚ whether that someone be Estella‚ Miss Havisham‚ Biddy‚ Joe or any other character in this novel. It is easy to say that Pip’s main goals in life were most affected and determined by Estella’s relationship with Pip and also Biddy’s relationship with Pip. His relationship with Estella greatly determined

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    Magwitch Magwitch a fearsome criminal just recently escaped from prison and terrorizes Pip at the beginning of Great Expectations. Chapter 1 “You fail‚ or you go from my words in any partickler‚ no matter how small it is‚ and your heart and your liver shall be tore out‚ roasted and ate. Now‚ I ain’t alone‚ as you may think I am. There’s a young man hid with me‚ in comparison with which young man I am a Angel. That young man hears the words I speak. That young man has

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    Pirrip‚ who‚ born an orphan‚ lives with his unkind sister‚ whom he address as Mrs. Joe‚ and her virtuous and amiable husband‚ Joe. During his formidable years‚ he is often forced to spend time at the estate of an old and very affluent lady named Ms. Havisham where he meets her daughter‚ Estella‚ with whom he almost instantly falls in love but seemingly does not reciprocate his feeling and rather acts cruel towards him. One day‚ he unexpectedly inherits a large sum of money from an anonymous donor and

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    Humphry House asserts that Pip’s lack of autonomy makes it impossible for him to make lasting developments as a character.“there is never any question of his return.” (House‚ 646). House frames Pip as a dependent‚ downplaying his agency. Though there is some truth in Pip’s subjectivity‚ the overlying narrative in Great Expectation is that of a young man coming of age‚ painfully‚ through his own actions and agency. Taking into account what we know of Dickens’ background and ideologies‚ Houses’ may

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    One way that Pip matures is how he changes his views on brother-in-law‚ Joe. In the second chapter of Great Expectations‚ Pip sees Joe‚ “as a larger species of child‚ and as no more than [his] equal” (Dickens 7). This shows that Pip sees Joe as his equal‚ meaning that he respects Joe‚ but as another child. Pip seeing Joe this way means that Joe isn’t that much of a superior figure around the house‚ it’s mostly Mrs. Joe making the decisions and disciplining Pip. Later on in the book‚ Pip was‚ “afraid

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    Novel Assignment 1 H Mrs. Cox Great Expectations‚ Charles Dickens Commentary Dickens is probably the most famous‚ and he is surely the most beloved‚ author of those you will read in this class for your novel assignments. Great Expectations is filled with autobiographical elements. Even though almost every chapter reflects some affinity with Dickens’s own life story‚ Great Expectations is indeed a highly wrought work of art. It is to that‚ the literature (art)‚ that we

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