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    Love in Great Expectations

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    ways‚ “A feeling of intense desire and attraction toward a person with whom one is disposed to make a pair; the emotion of sex and romance. To have a feeling of intense desire and attraction toward (a person) (Webster‚ love)”. In Great Expectations‚ Pip is going through maturity‚ and is always undergoing maturity. We find that Pip is always longing for friends‚ family‚ and for love. Love can be a number of things to different people. Love is an emotion‚ where there is no wrong definition

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    Bailey Baith Great Expectations Adv. English 11 March 9‚ 2013 Secrets A secret always has reasoning behind how long it is kept hidden and when it is revealed. There’s always a perfect time and place for one to share one’s secret. Uniquely books have secrets embedded within to keep the reader on edge. If used wisely by the author‚ a secrets purpose can affect a novel’s story line‚ character development‚ and theme. Every secret throughout Dickens’ novel Great Expectations is effectively kept

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    employed in literary texts that affects how readers interpret dominant ideologies of the society represented in the text. In the case of Great Expectations‚ Charles Dickens successfully enacts the stratified class structure and power relationship by employing imagery in the form of characterization‚ pathetic fallacy and figurative language. Through such imagery‚ the novel specifically conveys a critique of a society where capital indicates social position‚ where wealth defines opportunity‚ and where

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    Jasmine Arana Mrs. Ramirez English 9/ Period 1 20 January 2015 Great Expectations Great Expectations is a comprehensive novel written by Charles Dickens that shows the spiritual and moral development of the main character‚ Pip. Pip is a young orphan child that lives with his sister‚ Mrs. Joe‚ and her husband‚ Joe and is best friends with a beautiful‚ smart girl named Biddy. He lives a happy childhood with his apprentice‚ Joe‚ until one day Uncle Pumplechook invites him to “play” at Miss Havisham’s

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    blacksmith‚ Pip‚ from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations takes a walk with his friend Biddy and confesses his inordinate desire to become a gentleman on behalf of a beautiful‚ yet snotty Estella. As Pip struggles through the snare of distress over his aspirations‚ he dismisses Biddy’s difference in opinion about the significance of the upper class. Through this‚ Dickens expresses that the misperceptions of class bring unnecessary dissatisfaction with one’s place in society. Pip begins the conversation with

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    life? Great Expectation is a classic and romantic novel that depicts the personal growth and personal development of a poor orphan child. Pip is one of main characters and he has two important expectations: to becoming a gentleman and marrying the beautiful Estella. Charles Dickens included in this book topics like‚ the difficult to win the love‚ wealth and poverty‚ romanticism‚ rejection‚ contemporary issues of social justice and inequality and the eventual triumph of good over evil. Great Expectations

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    Katerina Alexander Period 4 Knox 1/24/2011 Great Expectations Timed Write Essay In the passage provided from Chapter 37 of Great Expectations the characters of Pip‚ Miss Skiffins‚ Wemmick‚ and the Aged P use adequately calm and gentle actions to provide a safe and homely setting for Pip. This passage begins with a description of a post meal event where Pip feels “warm” and “greasy”. The Aged P‚ Wemmick‚ and Miss Skiffins moved around in a gentle manner as Miss Skiffins “washed up the tea-things

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    “If You Can’t Be With the One You Love‚ Love the One You’re With” Love‚ as much as any other theme or motif‚ drives the storyline of Dickens’ Great Expectations. As the naturalists of the era believe‚ characters are the products of their circumstances‚ and so Great Expectations is an exploration into the 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

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    Gender Expectations As far as anyone is concerned‚ boys and girls have always been different. From the well-known immaturity of a boy and the maturity of a girl to the actual differentiation of sex‚ it is obvious the difference between the two. Masculinity vs. femininity‚ the learning process when growing up‚ and responsibilities are the differences the stories “Boys” by Rick Moody and “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid illustrate very well. And as society has its role‚ it uses these differences to set

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    REVENEGE IN THE GREAT EXPECTATIONS NAME: TARYN LUU| DATE: NOVEMBER 13‚ 2012| COURSE: ENG4U9-A| TEACHER: K‚ VILCIUS Revenge is a primary theme in the novel Great Expectation by Charles Dickens. In this novel‚ many characters go out of their way to extract revenge‚ leading them to misfortunes such as death and imprisonment. Dickens makes it very clear that nothing positive can come from revenge through his characters and the results that come from their revenge. These acts range from petty resentment

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