The recollection of the protagonist forming the corpus of a work of art is nothing new. One may cite the case of Wordsworth’s The Preludein which the poet recalls his early days and gives a detailed account of his growth‚ basing himself on memory. R.K. Narayan’s The Guideis also an instance in point. The novel is virtually Raju’s story: his early days‚ his taking the role of a railway guide‚ his mixing with Rosie‚ his effort to transform Rosie from Marco’s wife to Nalini—a renowned dancer‚ his involvement
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novel is very 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
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self-improvement. With both ambition and self-improvement Pip is able to become a gentleman. Pip‚ from the lower class‚ has the longing to be with Estella‚ an upper-class well breed girl. He realizes that he has to become a gentleman if he wants respect and love from Estella. To become rich he needs ambition and to be accepted in the upper-class he needs self-improvement. He is able to accomplish this goal by being persistent. Dickens uses these two themes to make Pip in to a overall better person. Pip’s desire
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psychology of a young boy‚ based on the circumstances into which he is placed. Pip‚ the protagonist‚ is motivated by love‚ the love of a young girl named Estella. However‚ while he tirelessly pursues Estella‚ another young girl‚ Biddy‚ expresses her affection for him. Everything that Estella is‚ Biddy is not; Estella is cold and indifferent‚ while Biddy is warm and supportive. Estella represents an idea of perfection for Pip‚ who makes his entire raison d’être to win her affections. To this end‚ he
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Sagaciously (adv) Intelligently or wisely. “I sagaciously observed‚ if it didn’t signify to him‚ to whom did it signify?” Pip dozed off as Pumblechook sagaciously lectured him about the importance of honesty. Depreciation (n) belittlement. “...Pumblechook himself‚ self-constituted my patron‚ would sit supervising me with a depreciatory eye...” Pip could feel the depreciation
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character‚ Jane‚ in her novel. As does Dickens‚ he portrays his own experiences and thoughts through Pip‚ the main character of Great Expectations. Dickens and Brontë use setting as an important role in the search for domesticity. Great Expectations is a circular book‚ with Pip finding his childhood home at the end of the story finally filled with happiness and a real family (Chesterton‚ 102). Pip begins the novel in his village‚ innocent though oppressed. Moving to London‚ he becomes uncommon
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showing the lasting effects of the transition. The novel begins in a marshy cemetery with Pip‚ a lonely orphan boy who lives with his sister and her husband Joe Gargery. While Pip is curiously studying "five little stone lozenges" (Dickens 9)‚ an escaped convict approaches him and demands that Pip gets him a file and some wittles. Being scared of the man‚ Pip does as he asks. As Pip grows older‚ he forgets about Joe and the convict and becomes closely aquatinted with Miss Havisham and her adopted daughter
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Expectations is a HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bildungsroman" \o "Bildungsroman" bildungsroman‚ or a coming-of-age novel‚ and it is a classic work of Victorian literature. It depicts the growth and personal development of an orphan named Pip. The novel was first published in serial form in Dickens’s weekly periodical All the Year Round‚ from 1 December 1860 to August 1861.[1] In October 1861‚ Chapman and Hall published the novel in three volumes. Dickens originally intended Great Expectations to
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In Charles Dickens’s celebrated novel‚ Great Expectations‚ we are presented with a unique protagonist in Phillip “Pip” 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
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Heights: they are the most distant visible feature. The narrative does not visit them‚ although several of the characters have visited them . The Earnshaw family is not as well off as the Linton’s. This is compared to the small town off the ocean where Pip and Estella live. Pip’s family is rather poor‚ and Estella lives in a large house with a wealthy aunt. The lives of the lover’s in
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