Estella Havisham

Pip finds himself stealing food for a convict and falling for Estella, the adopted daughter of a wealthy woman. From his unrequited love and act of thievery, he strays of the path of his humble beginnings to a wealthy and sophisticated life in London provided by a secret benefactor. As years pass by, Pip learns that his desire for Estella has made his life progressed to where it is now, even if his heart has endured great pain. Estella is only one of many people…

The moment somebody walks outside, people suddenly start to judge. People make assumptions based on how people dress and look. “Everything That Rises Must Converge” and “Goodbye, My Brother” take place in a world where if men don’t wear a tie they look like a “thug,” a briefcase symbolizes respect, and they long for a return to their past glories. Each main character has a distinguishing feature or item of clothing- the garish hat, wedding dress, protruding teeth, or the holiday home. While…

What would one expect to be the feelings of a man who was born and raised in Mumbai, but travelled the world during his child- and adulthood? A man who has lived in London, New Delhi, New York and Hong Kong? It are the feelings of just a common man that Dom Moraes - an Indian poet - portrays in his poem ‘Sinbad’. An analysis of the poem reveals that through the apostrophe which addresses ‘Sinbad’ and formal characteristics such as rhythm, free verse and punctuation, the reader gets an impression…

Which Literary Classic is Better? The Time Machine and The Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are two pieces of classic literature bound together by the Victorian age. While both stories have underlying themes about the struggle of man, both present them in different ways. The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells, presents its struggle of man as a society where each class of peoples is against each other, being thoroughly influenced by politics of the time. Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case…

In the novel “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” James Joyce uses narrative devices that are characteristic of the Bildungsroman genre to focus on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood encountering various difficulties. A Bildungsroman “concludes at a momentous point in the hero’s life, which signals the culmination of a process of self-discovery, or the moment when a life-defining decision is made” (Cañadas 16). A Bildungsroman is a novel…

In the novel, A Tale of Two Cities, written by Charles Dickens, motifs profoundly help characterize certain characters throughout the novel. Motifs help connect certain descriptions and attitudes from a certain item to a character or theme. In the novel, the motif “stone” is used to characterize the Monseigneur. The motif helps connects the idea that the Monseigneur has a heart of stone. Like many of other members of the aristocracy in France, he treats others that are lower than him horribly…

Hurst of Hurstcote E. Nesbit’s short story, “Hurst of Hurstcote”, is an eerie tale that takes place in England. The short story had a confusing start, but the further I got into it, the more it started to make sense. The narrator, Bernard, tells the story of his old friend John Hurst, who would later become John Hurst of Hurstcote, the owner of one of the nicest mansions in England. John attended Oxford and was not particularly popular with the other guys because of his strange infatuation with…

Through the fateful day of their meeting, Pip changed his path from a blacksmith to making a living as a gentleman. When Pip meets Estella once more before going to London, he was again dazed by her, “The lady whom I had never seen before lifted up her eyes and looked archly at me, and then I saw that the eyes were Estella’s eyes. But she was so much changed, was so much more beautiful, so much more womanly, in all things winning admiration had made such wonderful advances, that I seemed to have…

Billy Graham, a liberal evangelist, once stated, "The greatest legacy one can pass on is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character". Uniformly, the beloved author, Charles Dickens, left behind a legacy similarly described by Graham's words. Dickens was born into a large family with barely enough money to get by. Unfortunately, when Dickens entered his teenage years, he was forced to leave behind his education in order to add to the family…

Book : Hollow City Author : Ransom Riggs Hollow city is about a boy named jacob portman. He had decided to help a group of peculiar children save their headmistress. They are traveling from city to city trying to find somebody that may be able to help them. Meanwhile world war 2 is happening everywhere and they are being chased by hideous creatures and men with white eyes. As the peculiar children struggle to find the last uncaptured person that may be able to help them in war stricken…