Mutual Friends

The one thing that most everyone, at one time or another, looks for is love. In order for that to happen, one would have to go on an event that is called a first date. Everyone has this idea that being asked on a first date is the scariest part, but in actuality, it is going on that first date that is scary. If the date goes well, then that leads to the second date, the third date, and sometimes more that. However, the first date, it seems to lay the groundwork for the future relationship, if there is one. Now, each person may have a different experience when he or she goes on a first date. The majority of first dates may end differently, with the two people being mutual friends, being love at first sight, or being the worst of all. Some dates…

Our Mutual Friend, written in the years 1864–65, is the last novel finished by Charles Dickens and is one of his most refined works, consolidating savage parody with social investigation. It fixates on, in the expressions of pundit J. Hillis Miller (citing from the character Bella Wilfer in the book), "cash, cash, cash, and what cash can make of life." In the opening parts a body is found in the Thames and distinguished as that of John Harmon, a young fellow as of late come back to London to get…

In his book, Medicine in Seventeenth Century England (1974), Allen G. Debus, presents three definitions of quack from Dr. Johnson’s great dictionary: 1. A boastful pretender to arts which he does not understand. 2. A vain boastful pretender to physick; one who proclaims his own medical abilities in publick places. 3. An artful tricking practitioner in physick. (313) In other words, quack is corrupt and dishonest fraud, which is often found in the Victorian health care field. Charles Dickens…

met at our mutual friend (yoni 's) house back in 2002. Neba was vacationing from London. My friend Samri and I went to yoni 's house during lunch time. Since I had to go back to school we didn 't stay that long. After we left, Samri said that Neba was checking me out and I didn 't think it was a big deal and that was it. Later, once we started dating, he found some pictures that we took together him standing next to me from our first acquaintance. I guess it was the gravity of love that pulled…

Great Expectations is solely about Pip and his expectations over time and for the reader to be able to understand how and why his expectations change, Dickens purposely has Pip describe his life as a child, adolescent and mild aged man. The purpose of Dickens using a bildungsroman is to have Pip grow from a young boy who has many fears and expectations into a man who can then reflect on his mistakes and his life as a whole. One of the first scenes of the novel begins with Pip running into…

In “Great Expectations” Charles Dickens carefully mixes elements of the comic, the tragic, and the grotesque to create a dynamic story. Dickens blends these aspects together within scenes in order to accomplish this. He fuses them together to produce a story that is humorous, melancholy, and sentimental, all at the same time. Within the story, Dickens uses the comic to create humor, the tragic to create melancholy, and the grotesque to create sentimentality. He creates his humor through the use…

Who would you think would be a more sympathetic character, a habitual criminal or a renown member of the justice system? In the novel Great Expectations, the answer is not the one you would necessarily choose. This novel by Charles Dickens is centered around a poor boy named Pip who comes into great expectations of wealth by a mysterious benefactor, who turns out to be a lifer exiled to the new colonies named Magwitch. Because of this revelation, Pip struggles with the predicament of protecting…

How does Charles Dickens explore Pip's state of mind ? William Priddy, 1ere ES1 'Great Expectations', by Charles Dickens, presents Pip's constant moral evolution. This particular extract reflects Pip's state of mind in his adolescence, following the year he spent visiting Miss Havisham. These encounters have presented to him an alternate lifestyle that he would not have been aware of otherwise. He begins to reflect on his own life and sees himself as inferior to Estella and her education.…

testimonials as a way to beg, but we are able to see breaks in his facade through the “hem” and “ha” littered throughout his dialogue. His pretense demonstrates how vital it is for him to not be perceived as a person from the lower class of society. The pressure to keep up this pretense continuously weathers away at his remaining mental stability by the middle of book two. The pattern, up to this point, has served as an indicator of his moments of paranoia and anxiety. However, in chapter 18…

Caricature is a description of a person or even an object in which certain characteristics are exaggerated. Caricature is used quite often by Charles Dickens in A Tale of Two Cities. Many say that Charles Dickens created characters that are “flat” or one dimensional when using carituature in his writings such as in A Tale of Two Cities. Many say when Charles Dickens uses caricature, it leads to his characters being meaningless. The characters that he describes turns out to be “flat” or one…