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    Ideas for Great Expectations Money + Social class Within Great Expectations‚ the conception of the contextual element concerning status and money is prominent‚ where Old Money Vs New money provides a division that separates the higher class from the lower class. Money becomes a standpoint in ‘determining’ ones belonging within the society say‚ for example‚ when we compare Pip and Bentley Drummele‚ we view the contrasting forms of old money (indicated as immediate and absolute according to society)

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    My Favourite Sport Swimming Swimming has been my favourite sport since I was very small. I learnt to swim when I was just 5 years old. Swimming is a very popular sport; furthermore‚ it provides individuals with several physical and mental benefits. There are some reasons why swimming is popular. Firstly‚ swimming is a sport for all age groups; besides‚ it is a lifetime activity. People can learn to swim as young as 4 or 5 years old or as old as 60 or 70. All it takes is the right instruction

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    Imagery is a crucial device 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

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    My Favourite Day of the Week I cannot say which day of the week is my favourite day because it is unknown how a day would end up. But still‚ school days are never days that I look forward to. School‚ homework and tuition classes burdens me. Excluding the schooldays‚ only Friday or Saturday would be my choice. The day I like the most‚ is Saturday. Saturday is perfectly placed at the last day of the week. As usual in the morning I would have to go to school for co-curriculum activities. Those activities

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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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    My Favourite Holiday destination My favourite place is our granny and grandfather’s summer cottage‚ which is about 12.5 kilometres from our house. It is situated on the way to the famous Bird Sanctuary - Nalsarovar. I just absolutely love this place.  It’s definitely different from the typical crowded vacation spots which many people prefer to visit.  During vacation we make it a point to visit granny’s cottage for a few days to rejuvenate ourselves. We pack our bags and ask our caretaker at

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    Charles Dickens‚ author of “Great Expectations” possesses an amazing ability to develop the characters in his stories using imagery‚ parallelism and first person point of view. In the excerpt from “Great Expectations”‚ the author develops the personality of a convict the narrator of the story has encountered. Through the use of the rhetorical devices‚ the author allows for the reader to fully examine the convict as he is meant to be perceived. It is evident‚ given the details‚ that the convict

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    My Favourite Place In The World. My room keeps me relaxed and entertained for hours. To me‚ it feels like the safest place on the planet. Sometimes I like to sit and stare at the map of the world that hangs on my wall. I look at certain countries and imagine what life must be like there or think about which ones I would like to visit. It gives me a sense of peace to be able to look at the whole world at once from a distance like this. My wardrobe doors are a collage of cut outs from travel

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    Macbeth and great expectations Alan Voong Shakespeare and dickens are very effective at presenting the flaws and weaknesses of key characters in both Macbeth and great expectations .using different techniques‚ miss havisham and lady macbeth and lady macbeth both impact others characters and events in a negative way. Females would have been seen during that time period as passive‚ gentle and weak therefore the characters would be appealing to and acceptable to the audience to have a common stereotype

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    Imprisonment in Great Expectations Prison is a very grim and doleful place for humans in which everyone might experience once in their life physically or mentally. The theme of imprisonment is demonstrated frequently in many works of literature‚ as many characters must struggle with the reality of their prison whether it is a physical or mental prison. In Charles Dickens’s bildungsroman novel‚ Great Expectations‚ the characters Miss Havisham‚ Estella‚ and Pip must struggle and endure physical and/or

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