Love is presented as a troubling and destructive emotion in both ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and Duffy’s poem ‘Miss Havisham’. Shakespeare frequently uses oxymorons to convey Romeo’s extreme and conflicting emotions to the audience‚ ‘feather of lead‚ bright smoke‚ cold fire‚ sick health’. These oxymorons imply that everything that Romeo thought he once understood has been reversed due to his love for Rosaline‚ leaving him confused and isolated. ‘Sick health’ in particular highlights the contrast between
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Mr Pip Revision Notes Context Bougainville is part of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon islands. Australian company builds in Panguna‚ Papua New Guinea on the island of Bougainville. Islanders had no benefit from this. Very little of earnings were given to island workers. ‘Wontok’ system of redskins taking jobs‚ elbowing locals out of jobs Devastates ecology of the area. Affects locals who rely on nature. Water undrinkable Killed plants and animals Destroyed rainforests Social injustice
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Pip‚ was the best name that Philip Pirrip could pronounce as a child. Growing up‚ Pip didn’t have a mother or a father to look after him‚ they died when he was younger‚ and this caused his older sister Mrs.Joe to have to look after him. Throughout the story‚ Pip has a large number of women who influence him in many different ways. First there is his sister‚ Mrs. Joe‚ then Biddy‚ Mrs.Havisham‚ and Estella. They all changed his life in different ways‚ yet they all contribute to how Pip is as a person
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that‚ "Good friends‚ good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life." One of the greatest examples of Conscience and how it affects a boy named Pip is found in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. What would you do if you were forced to do something that conflicted everything you believed in? In the story‚ Pip is confronted with a similar scenario in which he has to steal food for an escaped convict who threatened to kill him. While in the process of stealing he is
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Universial Themes in "The Return of the Native" and "Great Expectations" Classic novels usually share in the aspect of universal themes which touch people through out the ages. All types of audiences can relate to and understand these underlying ideas. Victorian novels such as Thomas Hardy ’s The Return of the Native and Charles Dickens ’ Great Expectations are examples of literary classics that have universal themes. Hardy ’s tale illustrates the role of chance in his characters lives
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Dickens’ Great Expectations is the great difference in social classes. Throughout the story the main character‚ Pip‚ goes from living in a small‚ poor village‚ destined to be a blacksmith to becoming a wealthy gentleman who lives in a large home in London. During Pip’s journey a clear divide can be seen between the wealthy‚ high class of England and the poor laborer class. This divide between classes is seen as soon as the first higher class person in the story is mentioned: Miss Havisham. When Mrs
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monk. He taught me a lot of interesting things. I learned a lot of him. Section 1 (p. 1-49) 1. Character list * Mr Watts (Pop eye) * ‘Everyone called him Pop Eye’ * ‘He looked like someone who had seen or known great suffering and hadn’t been able to forget it’ * ‘His large eyes in his large head stuck out further than anyone else’slike they wanted to leave the surface of his face’ * ‘His nose was already big’ * ‘We never saw him
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depicted in Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations. Social class determined the manner in which a person was treated and their access to education. Yet‚ social class did not define the character of the individual. Characters were treated differently because of their social class in this novel. Seeing the contrast between how the poor and the rich were treated will give a clearer understanding of how much social class matter. In chapter 27 when Joe comes to see Pip‚ he treats Joe in a different
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Identity in Great Expectations and The Picture of Dorian Gray An old saying goes‚ “you are who your friends are‚” and while many people refuse to believe the statement‚ its message has reigned true for many centuries and will continue to reign true until the end of time. The individuals with whom a person chooses to surround him or herself with greatly impacts the person he or she will inevitably become. In addition to shaping personality and morality‚ friends and peers assist in discerning how
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Pip was never a child. He was treated harshly from before he could remember‚ his sister often beat him. He had one friend‚ one person who he looked up to and admired. Joe‚ Joe was Pip’s best friend. He was a great model for Pip if only Pip would act like him. In the Book “Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens the main character was a child who had not had a childhood. “We were equals afterwards‚ as we had been before; but‚ afterwards at a quiet times when i sat looking at Joe
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