The extracts I will be analysing are from the novel Great Expectations written by Charles Dickens. I am going to be describing how Dickens has succeeded in making the reader feel sorry for Pip. Dickens used his own experiences as a boy to help him write sympathetically of being a young child‚ his family had no money and got transferred from city to city until he was ten years old‚ his father was also sent to prison for six months over debt. He based the character Pip in remembrance of himself as
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In the break down of Kate Atkinson’s Behind the Scenes at the Museum‚ we learn as the reader‚ that the protagonist who is the narrator is to an extent unreliable. The footnote that are included in the novel‚ provide time shifts‚ which flash back‚ into times as early as her Great Grandmother. This then leads the reader into thinking whom it is possible that Ruby has access to the information and description seen in these footnotes. The Narrator also provides elements of the future in her speech‚ the
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Why do Conan Doyle’s readers find his Sherlock Holmes stories effective and engaging? In the Sherlock Holmes series‚ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle managed to create one of the most famous fictional characters in the whole of English literature. So engaging and evocative was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s writing‚ that many people believed that Sherlock Holmes actually existed and wrote to him to ask him to solve their cases. Even after Conan Doyle killed off the character in the Hounds of Baskerville‚ the
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the authors capture the readers’ sympathy for their eponymous heroines. The two authors of the novels ‘Tess of the D’Urbervilles’ and ‘The French Lieutenant’s Woman’; manage to evoke sympathy for their two eponymous characters to the reader through a variety of themes and characterization techniques. While both characters experience tragedy in their lives‚ the differences and similarities between the portrayals from the authors is what may or may not capture the readers sympathy. The very
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Atwood uses to create a sense of empathy between the reader and the text. "The Handmaid’s Tale" is a novel that is largely dependent upon creating a bond between it’s characters and the reader; in my opinion the novel would not reach it’s full potential or have full impact unless the reader was empathising with the characters and situation throughout. Ergo‚ Atwood uses several literary techniques to ensure that all but the most hardhearted of readers cannot fail to empathise‚ not only with the plight
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Does Phyllis Wheatley use religious references to warn her readers about slavery and sin and its repercussions? Throughout the poem‚ "To the University of Cambridge‚ in New England"‚ Phyllis Wheatley suggest that she accepted the colonial idea of slavery‚ by first describing her captivity‚ even though this poem has a subversive double meaning that has sent an anti-slavery message. Wheatley’s choice of words indicates that her directed audience was educated at a sophisticated level because of the
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Of Mice and Men- Curley’s wife. How does Steinbeck present Curley’s wife to the reader? What is her importance in the novel? In order to discuss how Steinbeck presents Curley’s wife to the reader one would determine that many readers would interpret her character and importance in many diversified ways. In this essay‚ one must elaborate on Steinbeck’s true definition of the one and only female in the novel. First and foremost other females in the novel are mentioned but not greeted with a presence
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about the view that there are no women in ‘The Great Gatsby’ with whom the reader can sympathise? I believe that Fitzgerald constructs characters such as: Myrtle Wilson‚ Daisy Buchanan and Jordan Baker which manipulates the reader to perceive these women as sinful‚ lustful and provocative. However‚ Fitzgerald may have done this due to the radiant times of the ‘Jazz Age’ (Roaring Twenties). Although‚ throughout the novel the reader is able to notice that everyone is superficial and pretentious snobs due
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Cheating is a combination of lying and stealing. When you cheat‚ you are misleading others in one way or another‚ and that’s lying. Often‚ cheating also involves taking information or ideas that really belong to someone else. A basic definition of lying‚ according to the Catechism of the Catholic Church‚ is “speaking falsehood with the intention of deceiving.” There’s also a second type of lying. When you hold back information that you know is necessary for another person to get a true picture
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Consider how T.S Eliot positions the reader to understand the complex nature of alienation in his poem The Preludes Through his poem‚ The Preludes‚ T.S Eliot positions the reader to understand the complex nature of alienation and isolation. The Preludes describes the urban environment as a fragmented world where individuals are forced to go through a daily meaningless routine. Isolation and loneliness are discussed in his poem to emphasis the exhaustion that individuals are facing in an urban environment
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