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    Written by Charles Dickens, Great Expectation is a novel written in the genre of fictional fantasy. Pip, the protagonist, falls in love with a girl and wanting to impress her, he goes to London to inherit a fortune to undergo training as a gentlemen. He later tries to help a convict escape from the police and finally returns with the girl to fall in love with her. The setting of the novel impacted Pip positively because he was able to see how life was like at different levels of social classes,…

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    Pip And Joe Gargery Essay

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    In “Great Expectations”, by Charles Dickens writes about an abused orphan named Pip. Pip’s journey consists from being an orphan and prospers into containing power and wealth, also the friends he gains and unbound lead into is eventual humbling. Dickens creates Joe Gargery that fails to protect Pip from his sister when Pip was a child. Joe Gargery is an extremely sweet person despite his flaws of no education and no polish. In the story, Joe Gargery’s character is to love Pip, he is to be a…

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    him with corresponding allowance. He's ashamed of Joe and worries what Estella thinks if she were to see him. Pip wants to marry her. On the opposite life style, Estella has no expectations, dreams,or plans for her future. She just lets herself to be shaped into a cruel heartless women by Miss Havisham; which expectations are continued of a negative focus. To use Estella as her puppet to punish men for her heart break on her wedding day. At the end of the novel, Estella…

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    Writers use many different tactics to create realistic characters. Consistent dialogue and overly exaggerated actions often aid the author in creating a believable character, but another way to highlight a character’s traits is to create a foil. A foil is a character that contrasts with another, typically the protagonist, in order to bring out certain qualities of the more central character. Throughout the novel, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, many pairs of foils add to the storyline,…

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    wants. So many people get dragged into believing they will not be liked unless they follow the “perfect” image of society. Social standards have always been around, and Charles Dickens shows that fitting in may not be what is best, in his novel, Great Expectations. In the novel, Pip is a common young boy that meets a girl, and immediately gets sucked into the idea of fitting in and being “uncommon”. From this novel, Dickens makes me believe that trying to fit the perfect image will not make you…

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    Great Expectations

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    In Great Expectations, the main character Pip while visiting the graves of his parents and siblings is grabbed by an escaped convict. The convict orders Pip into stealing both food and a file for his shackles from the home of his wicked sister and her husband Joe Gargery, the blacksmith. The escaped convict is soon arrested for fighting with a convict who also had escaped and protects Pip when asked how he got the food and file by claiming he stole it from the Gargery home. One day, Pip is taken…

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    Great Expectations by Charles Dickens tells the story of Pip, a common orphan boy who dreams of being a gentleman. The novel is set in Victorian England and follows Pip’s encounters with many colorful characters throughout his rise through the social classes. At the center of Pip’s story is the weather. Dickens uses it as a tool to share aspects of the story. Although he may use the weather just to explain the setting of the novel, Dickens actually utilizes it to foreshadow what will happen next…

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    monologues from the view point of disturbed characters in history. The character Havisham comes from the novel ‘Great Expectations’ by Charles Dickens, it is said to believe that Dickens was inspired of the character from a wealthy recluse that he would encounter. Duffy is thought to have chosen the character because she prefers to tackle difficult characters amongst history, and attempting to encourage the reader to explore alternative ideas. The character was chosen because of her fitting…

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    Miss Havisham's Identity

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    Every person in history has unalienable roots which are ever-existent regardless of changes occurring in the meandering journey of life. Such is the case of main protagonist Pip of “Great Expectations”, by Charles Dickens. Pip is introduced to the concoction of Victorian English life that is the combination of extravagance, chance, instinct, experience, and peculiarity. His origins are humble; he is brought up an orphan under a vicious sister in the bottom working class, until one fateful day…

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    Expectations and the Brexit by Amelia HC Ylagan In the cusp of the 19th century, Dickens is perhaps the most famous romantic writer telling of the social consequences of the Industrial Revolution in England at that time, in the narrative of a “condition-of-England” as the growing-up storyline (Bildungsroman) would paint, and in the message of challenged traditions as the Victorian girdling had constrained. The pathos of the Victorian novel is mostly based on a foundation-emotion of isolation…

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