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    story “Great Expectations” to show that cruelty acts as a bridge to a newer phase in one’s life and wants to show how one has or will become in that phase. In Great Expectations‚ Miss Havisham will present cruelty at its finest after one gets to know her more and learn what tragedies she has been through. Dickens also presents that cruelty comes at a different time later on after you assume you got to know someone really well. It will come as you are in someone’s “trap.” In Great Expectations‚ Miss

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    Why do readers find Great Expectations so enjoyable? Michael Johnson Dickens uses pathetic fallacy to illustrate the predicament that faces the characters in the novel. It also depicts the emotions the characters feel and indicates how the scene is going to change. For example‚ the dramatic weather change‚ conveyed in the line‚ “The evening mist was rising now‚” during the second ending when Estella and Pip meet‚ mirrors the realisation of Pip and Estella’s true feelings for each other.

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    The Moral Lens of The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald creates a world full of lessons in morality in his novel The Great Gatsby‚ with a character list featuring two or more people who embezzle‚ forge or steal to make money‚ three people having romantic affairs‚ and a few murderers. Throughout Fitzgerald’s novel he employs many concepts pertaining to the justification of these immoral acts and the way that it is seen from the perspective of the character committing the moral crime. His protagonist

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    Sara Cordero 11/27/17 P.3 Alexander the Great Should a man of great morals prioritize himself above others or hold others above himself? Around 300 BCE‚ King Philip the II of Macedonia had managed to conquer Greece in a series of wars and battles which resulted in a prosperous country that he ruled (Macedonia‚ 2017). He was later assassinated in 336 BC by one of his seven bodyguards‚ Pausanians of Orestis (Philip II of Macedon‚ 2017). Following his death‚ his son Alexander became the new king at

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    To be able to locate and analyze themes of novels‚ such as Great Expectations‚ it is essential to understand the basic definition of a theme: It is a fundamental and often universal idea explored in a literary work. For instance‚ if we take a closer look at the story of Pip‚ we discover that the main idea behind the story is ambition and self improvement‚ which is correlated to the preceding minor themes‚ including social class‚ crime‚ guilt and innocence. The most important theme throughout the

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    What is the importance of "fairytale mode" in Great Expectations? Great Expectations is like a fairy tale without a fairy tale ending‚ reinforcing the idea that we need to make our own way in life‚ and can’t expect it to be given to us. A poor orphan is granted riches by a secret benefactor. It sounds like the plot of a fairy tale. Great Expectations may start out as a fairy tale‚ but in the end the poor orphan is left not much better off than he started--except that he’s wiser for it. Like

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    displayed. There is no better an example of these strong set of ideals then those portrayed in his novel‚ Great Expectations‚ which tells the story of Pip‚ a young boy who is initially fooled into believing that material wealth is a substitute for the real moral values a gentleman should posses. However‚ through the many trials and tribulations he is forced to go through‚ he is finally able to identify what it means to be a "true gentleman"‚ one that has acquired true wealth and value. It is only then that

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    Role of School in Moral Education Principal Dr Smt U K Sadavarte Vivekwardhini College of Education For Women‚ Nanded Prof Rachana Sandeep Akolkar AAD College of Education‚ Khultabad‚ Aurangabad Moral education is what the schools do to help the young become ethically mature adults‚ capable of moral thought and action. Very little of the moral education that inevitably occurs in the schools is formally recorded in lesson plans‚ curriculum guides‚ or

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    was the era of expansion in economy and technology invention. It brought Americans more opportunities to get rich and a modern way of living. The era was also remarked by the decay of society’s moral during the Prohibition period. Fitzgerald describes this moral decadence through his famous work‚ The Great Gatsby‚ by portraying the infamous bootlegger‚ Jay Gatsby. Prohibition was a period during the Roaring Twenties in which the government banned all of the sales‚ production and transportation of

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    The Great Gatsby: The Destruction of Morals In The Great Gatsby‚ the author F. Scott Fitzgerald shows the destruction of morals in society. The characters in this novel‚ all lose their morals in attempt to find their desired place in the social world. They trade their beliefs for the hope of being acceptance. Myrtle believes she can scorn her true social class in an attempt to be accepted into Ton’s‚ Jay Gatsby who bases his whole life on buying love with wealth‚ and Daisy‚ who instead of marrying

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