pun. How could Mrs. Wopsle’s name be descriptive of her personality? Mrs. Wopsles name describes her personality because “Wopsle” sounds like “wobble” and Mrs. Wopsle is has a very wobbly and carefree personality. 2. How are Biddy and Pip alike? Biddy and Pip are alike because they were both “brought up by hand”. Also‚ they are both from the same social class and have dreams of a better life. 3. Why has Joe not learned to read as a child? What makes him marry Pip’s sister? Joe has not learned
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Great Expectations‚ refers to Pip’s many expectations. Pip expects to inherit money‚ but he first has to be educated a gentleman. Pip has “great expectations” of himself and Jaggers also tells Pip that “he is a young man of great expectations”. During the time of his education‚ Pip focuses too much on himself and values too little what he already has. For an example‚ Joe always lets Pip talk to him and Joe never takes advantage of Pip. After Pip inherits the money‚ he becomes pompous and insensible
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Orlick has a clear motive for revenge. Joe fired him once Pip was old enough to become Joe’s apprentice in the forge. The difference between Miss Havisham’s pain compared to Orlick’s‚ is Orlick was a lazy and slow worker and could easily have been fired by Joe before Pip was even of age to work in the forge. Similar to Miss Havisham and her plot of revenge‚ Pip happened to be the unlucky one who gets hurt when he has done nothing wrong.Mrs. Joe has an accident
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early-to-mid 1800s. This is the story about Pip‚ an orphan boy who lives with his sister who is married the blacksmith‚ the story follows the life of this boy‚ from his awakening to life. The main characters are Pip‚ Mrs. Joe‚ Joe Gargery‚ Miss Havisham‚ Estella‚ Abel Magwitch.‚ Mr. Jaggers‚ Herbert Pocket‚ Biddy and Bentley Drummle. Pip‚ is the main character and is the narrator of the story‚ Pip is a young orphan boy who is being raised by his sister and her husband. Pip is very passionate and a dreaming
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development of individuality is shaped by the influence of outside factors. This idea is represented through the orphans‚ Pip and Estella‚ two characters who develope two drastically different personalities. Both of these individuals are profoundly influenced by external factors such as Pip’s expectations and Miss Havisham’s parenting. In the novel Great Expectations‚ Charles Dickens uses Pip and Estella to convey that one’s identity is constructed through the influence of external factors by showing the
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Though some are clearly selfless‚ such as Joe‚ and some clearly selfish‚ such as Pumblechook‚ Pip Pirrup walks a fine line between the two. Joe Gargery is an honest man who is selfless in his actions. He always chooses to do what will help others‚ such as Pip‚ rather than making a decision that will benefit himself. His wife and the protagonist’s sister‚ Mrs. Joe‚ was given the responsibility of taking care of Pip‚ following their parent’s death. Rather than
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it also represents the fear and the guilt that altered Pip’s life. While living in the forge Pip meets the convict and he realizes “ [he] was too cowardly to do what [he] knew to be right‚ as [he] had been too cowardly to avoid doing what [he] knew to be wrong” (Dickens 41). Committing a crime for someone such as a convict stained Pip’s mind causing him to always feel obligated to be cautious. Little did Pip know the instant he helped the convict his fear of the Forge would eventually morph into guilt
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The novel Great Expectations follows the story of a young boy‚ Pip‚ who realizes his identity as he strives to be above his social class‚ and shows the development and changes in his character. Pip’s personality traits change through interaction with other people in the course of this story. Although Pip was brought up in a harsh and poor background‚ with a punishing sister‚ who had brought him up “by hand”‚ he was gentle and kind. However‚ after his encounter with Miss Havisham and Estella‚ his
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situations such as Pip’s awareness of his harsh treatment toward his loved ones‚ the loyalty that Joe and Biddy continued to have toward Pip‚ and the emptiness in the life of Estella Therefore‚ by investigating specific characters and their occurrences with each other it can become
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setting in the novel. London. An important setting in “Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens is London‚ which is viewed as a place of economic competition and death. The bleakness of the places in London foreshadow a series of unfortunate events for Pip Dickens did not romanticize London but instead gives us a good hard look at the backstreets and alleys where the real life existed. An important setting in the novel Great Expectations is London this setting reveals important themes in the novel
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