Miss Julie

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…

Defying or Fulfilling Expectations Thesis: Charles Dickens illuminates an idea about deliberately sacrificing, surrendering or forfeiting something highlights his views on defying or fulfilling expectations. Dickens shows Pip, Mrs. Belinda Pocket and Magwitch surrendering or forfeiting expectations throughout Great Expectations. Paragraph 1: Pip sacrifices his relationship with Joe to become more gentleman-like and starts treating Joe differently to fulfill society's expectations. Dickens…

“No matter your social status or how powerful you are, we are all equal. We came here by birth and will leave in death” (Unknown). This quote tells the world that yes, status is a form of power, but In Charles Dickens’ novel, Great Expectations, social class is a large factor in determining how you are treated and how you treat others. In the novel, Dickens argues that social status isn’t a determining factor of your worth or make you a better person, as shown by Pip, Estella and Joe. To…

that we watch grow up, meets a convict and is forced to help him by getting him a file and food. This experience with his convict stays with him throughout his life, because it was such a strange and dangerous memory. He also meets an old lady named Miss Havisham who influences many of his decisions, because he believes that she is his benefactor. Pip has always wanted as much as he could get out of life, and would be willing to leave his family to get it. Dickens uses foreshadowing to push the…

Mrs.Brill is knowledgeable or aware of her surroundings and takes pleasure into ‘overhearing’ either their conversation or monitor their answers. While she over welcomed he staying her ‘special seat”, Mrs. Brill detect a “beautiful woman” who’d “[came] along and dropped her bunch of violets, and a little boy ran after to hand them to her, and she took them and threw them away as if they’d been poisoned,”. She thought to herself “whether to admire or not” by just scrutinizing the young woman’s…

Maddi Berry Great expectations essay Mod B In the book Great Expectations a character named Pip, meets many characters and faces situations that help to shape his views on life. Many different aspects of the book change his character dramatically such as wealth, social class, beliefs and wants. In the beginning of the book Pip is in a graveyard looking at his parents grave when a convict comes running towards Pip. The convict begs Pip to bring him food and a file so he may remove his…

the first miss america to ever be crowned, in 1921. My greatest achievements are winning Miss Washington, D.C, Inter-City Beauty Amateur, The Most Beautiful Bathing Girl in America, and the coveted grand prize of the Golden Mermaid trophy. Because the Inter-City Beauty Amateur and The Most Beautiful Bathing Girl in America wins didn't roll off the tongue, the council renamed those wins to Miss America for me. So, I was the first Miss America, but they didn't start to call the win Miss America…

Jaggers and Wemmick. Training to become a gentleman to gain Estella’s approval, Pip becomes conceited with his secret benefactor believing to be Miss Havisham. Becoming closer to Herbert Pocket, Pip learns about Havisham’s past. When Herbert tells Pip about Compeyson disappeared without getting any money, Pip exclaimed “I wonder he didn’t marry her and get all the property,” (142). Pip’s perception…

realize that they have met before: Herbert is the young man Pip bested in a fight at the garden in Satis House. Pip and Herbert agree to live together, with Herbert helping Pip on his road to gentlemanliness. Herbert also explains the story behind Miss Havisham: it is one involving a lower class man who stole her heart and smashed it, which may explain why she seemed so opposed to Pip earlier in the novel. Pip visits the distasteful world of the Royal Exchange before going to Matthew Pocket’s…

“Miss Brill” by Katherine Mansfield is a short story about an old woman attempting to live her sad, lonely life through others. Through indirect characterization Mansfield conveys to the readers the pseudo happiness, self deception, detachment and loneliness Miss brill suffers from. Although Mansfield never truly tells the reader about Miss Brill’s personality; through point of view the reader can infer what Miss brill is like and her state of being. The third person limited point of view used…