Writing the Modern City February 28‚ 2014 Pip and Estella: a Comparison Though superficially Pip and Estella appear to be complete opposites‚ in reality they are not. Viewed by their benefactors as objects‚ tools developed by Magwitch and Miss Havisham to be used in exacting their revenge upon society‚ they are understood better as two sides of the same coin. Both Miss Havisham and Magwitch equate their charges with possessions Estella is associated with Miss Havisham’s jewels and Pip is associated with land and stocks
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life. However‚ the mentor and pupil relationship between Pip and Miss. Havisham contradicts tradition. Miss Havisham influences the outcome of Pip’s life by exposing him to the idea of wealth and its relation to social status. In “Great Expectation” by Dickens Pip’s expectation of wanting to be a gentleman shows that reality is sometimes ignored when it doesn’t fit within the same premises of the desired expectation. Pip is introduced to Estella by Miss Havisham when he visits her home at “Satis house
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Question 4.) Although literary critics have tended to praise the unique and litereray characterization many authors have employed the sterotype characters successfully. Select a novel or play and analyze how a conventional or stereotype character function to achieve the authors purposes. In current times‚ it is evident that a writer will use characters that stick out from the norm in some way. They may have a stereotypical background‚ but the character’s story has some type of content that will
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Child Abuse by CHILDREN Neglect of a child is not limited to physical abuse; it encompasses physical‚ emotional‚ sexual abuse. The effects of these types of abuse are not limited to the number of years the child suffers; unfortunately‚ the effects of child abuse last a lifetime. Studies on child abuse have proven the negative effects are more than skin deep‚ and can have permanent physical‚ intellectual‚ and psychological consequences throughout adolescence and adulthood. When children experience
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Physical Abuse vs. Psychological Abuse There is a huge minority of people in the United States that does not realize Psychological/Emotional abuse as an actual form of abuse. The majority of people’s minds go right to physical abuse when indeed there are many other forms of abuse just as if not worse. Physical is easy to spot‚ even if the child does not tell anyone‚ whereas psychological abuse is not seen by anyone else and is very difficult to diagnose. There are many different resources and
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novel‚ “Great Expectations”‚ written by Charles Dickens‚ I discovered a wide variety of themes that amused me such as abuse‚ desire‚ guilt‚ ambition‚ and good and bad. Abuse‚ being one of the major themes‚ manages to shape and change people from one thing to another. Pip‚ being the protagonist of the novel‚ suffers much abuse. At the beginning of the novel‚ Pips mother‚ father‚ and five siblings are killed in a tragic accident and he is adopted by his sister Mrs.Gargery. She usually abuses pip by making
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has met Estella‚ the young maiden who drives his childhood fixation‚ his way of life progressively becomes more apparent making his antipathy towards himself and others more apparent than ever. Meeting the young maiden quickly makes him regret being a “simple” blacksmith and regretting that Mr.Joe raised him so. On page (67) when they’re playing cards Pip calls them Jacks instead of knaves much to Estella’s entertainment and distaste‚ ostracizing his lack of knowledge. This leads Pip to develop
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Great Expectations: PIP’S PERSONALITY CHANGE Most people would assume that through age and maturation‚ a boy with a wonderful heart and personality would further develop into a kind hearted‚ considerate gentleman. In Great Expectations‚ Charles Dickens provides his readers with an example of a boy who regresses in certain aspects of his personality rather than progressing as one would expect. Pip‚ a person who had loved and revered his uncle Joe as a child‚ while maturing‚ finds that his
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How does Dickens create sympathy for Pip? ‘Great expectations’ is a novel written during and set in the Victorian era‚ a time in which status‚ class and money were extremely important and where a discrepancy between the rich and poor was evident. The novel follows the ill-fated life of the protagonist in the novel‚ ‘Pip’. Dickens writes in such a way that each character is a subject of either sympathy or scorn. Dickens implies that Pip is a subject of sympathy through his use of guilt and
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A child as young as two can be affected by verbal abuse. Mistreatment during infancy and early childhood negatively affect early brain development and can have a long term effect into their adolescence and adulthood. The experiences we live through infancy and early childhood provide a framework for the expression of children’s intelligence‚ emotions and personalities. When those experiences are primarily negative‚ children may build up emotional‚ behavioral and learning problems that carry on during
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