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    have tended to praise the unique and litereray characterization many authors have employed the sterotype characters successfully. Select a novel or play and analyze how a conventional or stereotype character function to achieve the authors purposes. In current times‚ it is evident that a writer will use characters that stick out from the norm in some way. They may have a stereotypical background‚ but the character’s story has some type of content that will set them apart from the rest. Some of these

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    To me Oliver Twist is a primary example of life for the poor during the middle class. It also shows how life was during the Industrial Revolution and what some people had to do to survive. Oliver Twist is a story about a boy who works at a parish workhouse after his mother dies. While he is there he is barely feed any food and is over worked. As an orphan without any friends‚ known relatives‚ or other ways to survive he probably would have died if he hadn’t gotten thrown out and went to London

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    Novel Assignment 1 H Mrs. Cox Great Expectations‚ Charles Dickens Commentary Dickens is probably the most famous‚ and he is surely the most beloved‚ author of those you will read in this class for your novel assignments. Great Expectations is filled with autobiographical elements. Even though almost every chapter reflects some affinity with Dickens’s own life story‚ Great Expectations is indeed a highly wrought work of art. It is to that‚ the literature (art)‚ that we

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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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    Great Expectations – Class Notes Chapter 1-5 Major characters: Pip‚ Graveyard digger man‚ mr and mrs gargery‚ uncle p‚ mr w Plot: Prisoner told pip to get food‚ chirtsmas time Themes: Honesty‚ family‚ fear Social Class: Working class Children seen not heard Married couples don’t love each other (arranged marriages) Relationships: Joe is close to Pip   Chapter 5-7ish Pip’s parents are dead Pip’s sister is raising Pip Pip’s sister is mean Themes: how do men know who they are? Lower

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    Great Expectations offers a diversity of interpretations so various responders will be engaged by the text. The main character‚ Pip‚ is used to establish the journey of a young boy’s life as he learns the true meaning of life and what values are most important. Dickens uses a range of characters to show Pip learning this lesson and to provide insights into various aspects of the Victorian era culture. Characters such as Joe and Magwitch provide an insight into the education and the crime and justice

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    Set in the Victorian era‚ Sense and Sensibility and Oliver Twist‚ parallel but also contrast in many key elements. In both movies‚ mannerisms‚ class distinction‚ and the child’s role in society were reflected by both writers. Through these analysis‚ I was able to achieve new insight into the conditions of the Victorian era. <br> <br>In Oliver twist‚ mannerisms were greatly displayed in Oliver as a character. His mannerism best demonstrated how upper-class children were supposed to behave during this

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    Great Expectations Human nature is the psychological and social qualities that characterize humankind. Human nature separates humans from the rest of the animal kingdom. The underlining theme of human nature is evident in Great Expectation by Charles Dickens use of his characters. A main characteristic that Dickens displays is friendship. The friendship between Pip and Herbert is strong. Herbert was significant to Pip’s growth in social class and eventual to his revelation. “Friendship was one

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    story of the novel—traces his development through the events of his early life; his narration‚ however‚ written years after the end of the story‚ is a product of his character as it exists after the events of the story. Pip’s narration thus reveals the psychological endpoint of his development in the novel. Pip’s behavior as a character often reveals only part of the story—he treats Joe coldly‚ for instance—while his manner as a narrator completes that story: his guilt for his poor behavior toward

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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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