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    falls in love with her. But Estella is cold and distant. Over time‚ she softens somewhat toward Pip‚ but her affection is erratic. She tells him she can never love anyone. Pip is dismissed from Miss Havisham’s service and becomes an apprentice to Joe. But Estella has instilled in him a shame in his commonness. He longs to be a gentleman‚ not a blacksmith. His discontent grows. One day he learns that an anonymous benefactor has left him an enormous sum of money. He is to move to London‚ where he

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    Great Expectations by Charles Dickens tells a story of a young boy named Pip who grew up in a lower class but slowly finds himself transforming into society’s view of a ’gentleman’ in order to gain the approval of Estella. Throughout the Novel many characters‚ such as Joe‚ Estella‚ and Magwitch provide Pip with a very important lesson; Your true friends will love and care for you no matter what happens or how much wrong you do to them. This life lesson Pip learns is one of the most important themes

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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 manner before

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    Great Expectations Brief Synopsis The novel begins with the main character‚ Pip‚ encountering a runaway convict. Pip procures supplies for the man from his house. The convict then gets into a fight with another runaway convict and is take back to jail. Pip is soon after invited to the house of Miss Havisham‚ a rich‚ eccentric old lady who lives in isolation. Pip gets to know her adopted daughter Estella during his visit and begins to have feelings of love for her. However‚ it is not easy for

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    her husband‚ Joe‚ raised him. Although they raised Pip‚ Mrs. Joe and Joe did not fit the role of parental figures in Pip’s life. His sister was not a mother figure because she did not show love or affection as she was constantly beating him and telling him that he ruined her life. Joe‚ although loving‚ was not a father figure because he and Pip did not have a father-son relationship but rather a friendship as they protected each other from the mental and physical abuse of Mrs. Joe. This absence

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    In Great Expectations‚ Pip goes through stages of moral maturity. Over the course of the novel‚ Pip learns lifelong lessons that result from pain‚ guilt‚ and shame. Pip evolves from a young boy filled with shame and guilt to a selfish‚ young man‚ and finally into a man who has true concern for others. Pip goes through three stages in the novel; shame and guilt‚ self-gratification‚ and his stage of redemption. The first stage of Pip’s maturity is his shame and guilt. Shame is a feeling brought

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    Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Great Expectations is a bildungsroman‚ or a coming-of-age novel‚ published by Chapman & Hall in 1861‚ the story it’s set among the Marshes of Kent in London in the 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. JoeJoe Gargery‚ Miss Havisham‚ Estella‚ Abel Magwitch.‚ Mr. Jaggers

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    “If You Can’t Be With the One You Love‚ Love the One You’re With” Love‚ as much as any other theme or motif‚ drives the storyline of Dickens’ Great Expectations. As the naturalists of the era believe‚ characters are the products of their circumstances‚ and so Great Expectations is an exploration into the psychology of a young boy‚ based on the circumstances into which he is placed. Pip‚ the protagonist‚ is motivated by love‚ the love of a young girl named Estella. However‚ while he tirelessly

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    In Great Expectations‚ the author uses self-sacrifice as a meaningful symbol. A few characters in the book are continually sacrificing a part of themselves to others or sacrificing physical aspects to others. Characters Magwitch‚ Pip‚ Miss Havisham‚ and Estella are examples of people who self-sacrifice themselves throughout the book. Magwitch‚ a convict who is wanted by the law‚ desires to financially aid Pip by converting him into a gentleman; Pip‚ an innocent boy who has yet to learn about the

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    favorite person in the world‚ Joe. He is then conflicted of what to do. On one hand he is scared of being murdered by the people he ran into. On the other hand he does not want to steal from Joe. He ends up taking the file and wittles. • Imagery is when the narrator or character describes in detail what they see. When Pip enters Ms. Havisham’s house Pip goes into detail what he sees each step‚ which makes the reader seem like the reader is in the house him/her self. • “Joe was a fair man‚ with eyes

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