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    英语1004 Pip’s great expectations can be treated as a dramatic exploration of human growth and fame that distort the value of an ordinary people and make him lose his original virtues . Pip‚as a simple blacksmith’s boy ‚ intends to challenge the social boundaries . Although His dream is just to be a common blacksmith at first‚ his dream has gradually changed since he goes to Miss Havisham’s house as a company. It’s quite inevitable that people change as the environment changes. Life in Miss Havisham’s

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    The novel‚ Great Expectations‚ by Charles Dickens is considered by many to be one of the greatest works of Victorian fiction. It is through the use of characterization and imagery that Dickens is able to make his ideas most prominent in the minds of readers. Through his expert use of these authorial techniques‚ Dickens successfully criticizes the prison system‚ the morals of society‚ and the social injustice of his time. In the novel‚ Dickens takes an innocent young orphan boy through childhood

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    gentleman. Throughout the book we discover that his false love controls Pip. His infatuation for Estella inspires him to become an educated gentleman. Miss Haversham did. After her betrayal in love she hardened her heart towards her fellow man. By hardening her heart and suppressing her naturally affectionate nature‚ she committed a crime against herself. Miss Havershams love for Compeyson is of a compassionate kind‚ this blinded her to his true nature‚ as Herbert remarked‚ "too haughty and too much

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    The canonical novel ‚ Great expectations by Charles Dickens sets the scene for a narrative journey into the heart of belonging as it related to literary techniques of truncated non-grammatical sentences‚ malapropism‚ animal imagery‚ and violent vocabulary‚ also the use of Gothicism throughout the novel. the opening chapter‚ introduces you to a single character‚ Phillip Pirrip‚ better known as Pip. Early in the book during the opening chapter‚ Pip the character is a child‚ and Pip the narrator focuses

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    Faith R. Sims Eng3010 11/24/2005 Great Expectations Hollywood and the movie industry have made many bold attempts over the past decade in bringing to life old classics. None however in my opinion have been done more boldly than the remoulding of Charles Dickens ’s Great Expectations. This compelling piece is a rebirth storyline of the past retold in Modern times. Any attempt at bringing a Dickens work to the screen would be an awesome task to accomplish. I ’ve found his writing to

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    Charles Dickens’ novel‚ Great Expectations‚ there are several differences between the illusion and the truth. The appearance of certain things is often detrimental to the outcomes of characters when the reality of a situation is revealed. These illusions are revealed through Pip‚ a lower class boy caught in the struggle of the social classes of 19th century England. Throughout the book‚ Charles Dickens emphasizes the difference between appearance and reality through Pip’s expectations of something better

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    heart-breaking Estella‚ the idiosyncrasies that Dickens develops among his characters make them both enjoyable and memorable. Their personality‚ physical features‚ actions‚ and feelings all contribute to the lovable characters in Great Expectations. Estella‚ Miss Havisham‚ Wemmick‚ and Joe are produced from the many characteristics that make them pleasant and unforgettable. These characters are what makes this book so profound. They add to the excitement‚ suspense‚ care‚ and sadness of the story.

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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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    Society paints a twisted picture that money is the one and only important thing. Dickens shows us this theme in the novel‚ Great Expectations. Money isn’t everything‚ yet society teaches us that social status and position are things we should look for in life‚ instead of happiness with others and ourselves‚ and pip lives and breathes what society shows us as right. Dickens shows how money thirsty society is through characterization and plot; that life becomes all about what others think‚ not happiness

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    on himself to exactly the right (the convincing) degree. Redemption The proof of Pip¡¦s redemption lies in good deeds rather than good words.: his secret acts of kindness‚ in securing Herbert a partnership in Clarricker¡¦s‚ and in securing Miss Havisham¡¦s good opinion of the long-suffering Matthew Pocket; his final refusal to accept money from MH‚ or from Magwitch; and‚ most significantly‚ his love for Magwitch. The last of these good deeds‚ and the one hardest for the writer to authenticate

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