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    Miss Havisham

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    The book Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is about a boy named Pip who lived in different social classes throughout his life. He meets a girl named Estella at Miss. Havisham’s home. Miss. Havisham adopted Estella. Miss. Havisham's, past she had a negative view about men. This was because she was left at the altar making her heartbroken and lived thinking of that instance affecting her. Miss. Havisham she was born and raised in the upper class. Estella is near to Miss. Havisham as a daughter…

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    Pip's Guilt Quotes

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    1. This quote shows that Pip feels very guilty for helping the convict by stealing the file and wittles from Joe and Mrs. Joe. Pip shows how culpable he is feeling by using personifications saying the creaking of the stairs seemed to shout to Mrs. Joe to wake up and catch him doing something that he knows is wrong. Pip is also under a lot of pressure to not get caught and because the convict threatened him by saying that if he didn’t bring him the file and wittles that he would be killed by…

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    In his novel Great Expectations, Charles Dickens displays the recurring theme of how sometimes in life, despite what the accepted behavioral norms are for a certain group, not everyone complies to these standards. He uses this theme to make a profound statement in regard to his lack of conformity to gender ideals as depicted by the Victorian era, through the use of reversed gender roles. Stereotypically, Victorian ideals stated that women were to be kind and nurturing, and the men were to be…

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    Hillis Miller writes that Pip “is characterized by desire rather than possession. His spiritual state is one of an expectation founded on a present consciousness of lack, of deprivation. In many fairy tales, the disadvantaged protagonist generally elicits sympathy from the reader due to the lack of parents, love, acceptance, or power in his life. Made to believe by his…

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    “normative and neutral rather than ideological and culturally biased” and are still used to help students learn grammar conventions (22). Secondly, Academic-initiation approaches integrate reading and writing, hold basic writer students to the same expectations as “regular” students, defined by discourse theories rather than cognitive view of error, have a three-step process of comprehension, interpretation, and application, and Bartholomae’s theory of academic socialization underlies these…

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    ip at the beginning of the book can be seen as a person who is very tired to his upbringing and home. He is an orphan, a dependent on his older sister who was brought up “by the hand.” In return, she is very strict on Pip and he in away is afraid of her. His sister is married to Joe Gargery, a simple blacksmith. The three of them live in a poor village near the marsh of Kent and are considered to be “lower class.” Due to their socioeconomic situation, Pip was never given the opportunity to be…

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    The Satis House Brewery: An Analysis Charles Dickens’ widely read Great Expectations focuses on the dawning of a modern order in which systems of power and capital in society surpass the citizens’ control. The author’s interest in criticizing the hollowness of metropolitan society manifests through his gothic descriptions of the Havisham’s Satis House. The brewery of the estate, in particular, withholds a lot more meaning than the mere conception of monetary funds. This essay explores the…

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    In Great Expectations by Charles Dickens the main character learns an important lesson due to a string of events in the book. Starting Pip’s life, he is brought up by hand by his sister and her husband Joe, for both his parents are dead. Pip and Joe are the best of friends and always have each others backs when Pip’s sister is in a foul mood. Later in Pip’s life, he goes to live with Mrs. Havisham for a little while. At Mrs. H’s Pip is introduced to different ways in which people live. He takes…

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    Cynthia’s right to privacy was not violated because she posted her Ode on Myspace. She doesn’t have a reasonable expectation of privacy when she posts something on a public forum such as Myspace. Anyone has the ability to see her Ode once it’s been published online. After she posted her Ode to her online journal on Myspace she could no longer expect a reasonable expectation of privacy. In addition, her last name was easily traceable through her Myspace page and there is no proof that Campbell…

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    Great Expectations Essay Charles Dickens novel, Great Expectations, can be considered a bildingsroman, which is a coming of age novel or when the protagonist develops throughout a novel. The way that they develop throughout time can shape a person 's personality. As a person develops, they usually look back on certain life-changing events. These events are not always negative, some positive events can also impact a person’s life greatly. Some life-changing events that could help a person…

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