Miss Brill

so I plan on asking in class to go. I hope that I that I don’t miss Mr. Chesterton go over the study guide while I’m in the restroom. At Awty we must extend time in between classes kids don’t have enough time to get books from their locker, when kids are rushed there is a higher chance that you will forget a book or bring the wrong book, lastly, kids do not have enough time to go to the restroom and will ask during class time and miss class time. The first reason that passing periods should be…

Estella grows. As Pip grows older, many of the traits he reveals can be seen as a result of his childhood, and more specifically his relationship with his guardian Mrs. Joe. Estella also reveals many traits that could be considered the repercussions of Miss Havisham’s and Estella’s relationship. The relationship between Pip and his role models, as well as Estella and her parental influences, shape the way they develop as a character. This forces Pip to reveal traits that are in need of a more…

Despite offering a different character’s point of view, several of the dramatic techniques resident in Miss Julie are exhibited. Even more importantly, Strindberg again insists on placing the family of the play in the context of a Darwinian battle of the strongest. It is natural for us to expect similarities between The Father and Miss Julie due to the close proximity of their writing, but the points made about Strindberg’s later work help provide an additional insight into the playwright’s…

he is, believed “[Miss Havisham] reserved it for [him] to restore the desolate house, admit the sunshine into the dark rooms, set the clocks a going and the cold hearths a blazing, tear down the cobwebs, destroy the vermin—in short, do all the shining deeds of the young Knight of romance, and marry the Princess.” (Dickens). Miss Havisham, the lady of the house, makes Pip believe as if she was helping him, as if she was a force pushing him in the right direction. Now although Miss Havisham’s…

love she believed she had, but lost in the most brutal manner possible. Even though Miss Havisham recluses herself within the confines of her more habitable space, the abandoned family workplace haunts her each and every day. This becomes more apparent each of the times Pip experiences the ghostly illusions as he walks through the brewery. The first time Pip walks through the brewery, he chillingly visualizes Miss Havisham hanging from the beam of the ceiling: “I saw a figure hanging there by…

If a person was asked to illustrate a physical representation of stupidity they may form the shape of an upside-down cone and write in it, “Dunce.” Success has often been correlated with knowledge, but, measuring how much knowledge someone possesses is tricky. In Charles Dickens Victorian novel, Great Expectations, Pip starts off as a young “common” boy who yearns for a higher station in life. Also yearning, in Herman Hesse’s Interwar novel, Siddhartha, is Siddhartha who leads a nomadic life in…

“She is beauty and she is grace, she is the queen of 50 states, she is elegance and taste, she is Miss United States (Lawrence).” This song, from the soundtrack of the movie Miss Congeniality, describes amazing women who have been crowned Miss United States. While outside of this movie, in the real world, we do not have Miss United States; we do have other titles similar. Beauty pageants encourage their participants to be the best versions of themselves they can be through building the…

Many women who married around the 60s, most of their husbands would expect their wives to have a stereotypical model body: Twiggy, Donyale Luna, Patti Boyd and Linda Morand were some of the top 1960s models according to Supermodels of the 1960s by Lauren Valenti. These were some of the most famous models in the 60s in which men would expect their wives to maintain their bodies as these models. From a curvy waist to a flat stomach and a well size butt to please men of an ideal “perfect” body. Not…

expectations” that dissolve and change throughout the story, allowing for Pip to also change as a person. The reader follows Pip as he goes through life, learning how to be a gentleman, (which is part of his expectations of life), loving Estella, Miss Havisham’s adopted daughter, who will not love him back, and keeping a secret about helping an escaped convict when he was younger. As Pip continues to grow up, he keeps this secret, and once Pip and Magwitch, the ex-convict, meet again, he still…

Chapter 1: Lockwood is the story’s frame narrator who is introduced to Heathcliff in the first scene. Lockwood is the tenant of Thrushcross Grange, and Heathcliff is his landlord. Heathcliff is not very friendly, and the second man he meets, Joseph, is not either. As Lockwood enters Heathcliff’s residence, Wuthering Heights, he describes the rooms and furniture. Soon after, he is attacked by Heathcliff’s dogs, but they are called off. Chapter 2: Lockwood has a difficult time accessing the…