In Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, the reader is taken through the journey of a little boy as he pursuits his dream and great expectations beyond his common self. ... These great expectations of Pip lead him into believing that he is better than Joe and Biddy. ... Pip's great expectations and luxurious lifestyle begins to cause him considerable financial strain. ... The climax and fall of Pip's great expectations is when he learns who the true benefactor is. ... Pip lays aside his expectations of greatness and protects his benefactor. ...

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From the many themes in great expectations the one that is the most important is the concept of the gentleman vs. the working man. ... In Great Expectations there is a very big difference between the working man and the gentleman. In Great Expectations the working men don't even interact with the gentlemen. ... For the gentlemen in Great Expectations to talk to or be friends with the working men was not normal. ... "Great Expectations is one of Dickens dark novels," Says Stevenson who finds Great Expectations to be a somewhat comical and grotesque. ...

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Influence on Great Expectations Many characters influence Pip's life in Great Expectations. ... The role of Pip in Great Expectations is developed through the positive and negative influences of Joe, Magwitch and Miss Havisham. ... Through Magwitch Pip learns to become a gentleman, Magwitch's gratitude and his own redemption during the third stage of Great Expectations. ... Havisham is his benefactress and when he discovers that it is Magwitch his perspectives about his expectations completely change. ... This in turn eats away at P...

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In Charles Dickens' novel, Great Expectations, there are several differences between the illusion and the truth. ... The most important illusion Great Expectations is Pip's confident expectations of a better life. ... Setting in Great Expectations was also an important contrast of illusion and the truth. ... Satis house was "of old brick, and dismal, and had a great many iron bars to it. ... The settings in Great Expectations emphasize the differences between appearance and reality in that illusions are not always the truth....

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There are several themes in the novel Great Expectations, many of which are shown through the character of Pip. ... Pip eventually realized that his great expectations weren't as great as he had thought. They brought about his snobbery to Joe and Biddy, caused him to go into debt, and led him to dismiss the uneducated and embarrassing Joe when the source of his expectations was ironically of lower status than him. ...

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On "Great Expectations" In an article written by Christopher D. ... In the profound novel, Great Expectations, written by Charles Dickens, the main character "Pip" is put through many tests that examine the type of man Pip strives to be and the type of man Pip really is. ... Great Expectations is, in a sense, a Cinderella story in which Pip's fairy godmother turns out to be a convict running from the law. ... Pip was given two central people in his life that cared a great deal for him. ... The Bad Faith of Pip's Bad Faith: Deconstructing Great Expectations. ...

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Great Expectations In Great Expectations, Pip, the protagonist and narrator of the story grows from a young child to a mannerly gentleman with high social status. ... Great Expectations was set in early Victorian times in England when great social changes were sweeping the nation. ... Pip's sudden rise from laborer to gentleman in Great Expectations forces him to move from one social extreme to another while dealing with the strict rules and "expectations" that governed Victorian England. ... Abel Magwitch, the most influential character in the story, is a fearsome criminal, who escap...

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Great Expectations and Oliver Twist: A Comparison and Contrast Two of Charles Dickens" masterpieces, Great Expectations and Oliver Twist, are representatives of the many kinds of differences and similarities found within his volume of works. ... Pip, in Great Expectations, talked often about the abuse he received at the hands of his sister, Mrs. ... Escape is an integral theme in both Oliver Twist and Great Expectations. ... In Great Expectations, the use of coincidence is also noticeable. ... Great Expectations. ...

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Charles Dickens has left the revised ending of Great Expectations open to interpretation by the individual reader. ... The revised ending of Great Expectations is Pips Cinderella' story. ... This book is not a love story about Pip and Estella, but since it was Pips infatuation with Estella that lead him to his great expectations, their story needs to have an element of romance. Therefore Great Expectations should end like all fairytales and good romances, the hero gets his girl and they live happily ever after. ... Great Expectations is a coming of age story. ...

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In the book "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens, Pip, Estella, and Miss Havisham all have dreams and certain expectations. Pip and Estella both have great expectations to follow. ... Miss Havisham's expectations have a lot to do with love, and heartbreak. Pip's expectations is to become a wealthy and educated gentlemen. ... She gave herself her own expectations. ...

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Great Expectations In a well-written essay, analyze why Pip is vulnerable to Miss Havisham and how she works to achieve her objective on him. In the novel Great Expectations, Pip is the main character in the story. ...

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Pip in Great Expectations In Great Expectations the main character is Pip, he is a humble, hard working, boy who was orphaned by his parents and trying to find his place in the world and in that world's society. ... Havisham raised Estella to hate the male sex and to seek revenge on it, Estella did this to Pip and caused him great grief. ... He feels guilty when Joe takes care of him when he is ill; this is Great Expectations as a whole. ... Great Expectations is about everyday life and how lives little opportunities no matter how small they may be, should be take, but with caution. ...

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One of the most prominent themes in Great Expectations was that a person's worth lies in the goodness of his heart or the, content of his character, rather than in his wealth or social status. Dickens clearly makes this true throughout each of Pip's expectations. In Pip's first great expectation, Dickens makes it evident that the young ignorant Pip was truly happy and was a great person. ... This statement is very true in Great Expectations. ... Throughout Great Expectations, Dickens stays true to his theme stating that a person's worth lies in the goodness of their heart...

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Of all of his works, however, Great Expectations certainly stands alone in its pairing of social critique and social commentary. ... Dickens developed Pip as the narrator and protagonist of Great Expectations which helps the reader to understand the critique expressed with the novel. ... As Great Expectations begins, Pip has become very aware of the basic social inequality that surrounds him, and which deeply affects his life even though he is still a child. ... He describes his sudden good fortune with great irony: [it is] "very sorrowful and strange that this first night of my bright for...

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Great Expectations essay Written in 1860, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is a fascinating book and can be considered to be one of Dickens's greatest works. Dickens is known for his great writing style which incorporates lots of detail and frameworks of different reoccurring themes. Many themes can be noticed in the book Great Expectations however, one that stands out the most is the theme of love. It can be said that Great Expectations is a treatise on love which one recognizes through the different characters in the book. ...

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Great Expectations is an exhilarating tale of a passionate, romantic, and somewhat unrealistic person named Pip. ... One day Pip learns is informed that a secret benefactor has left him a great fortune, and he must go to London to collect. ... Oakland University put on a production of Great Expectations. ... Because I have not read the book, seen the movie or seen other productions of Great Expectations, I do not have anything to base the Oakland Universities production of Great Expectations on. ...

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In the novel, Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens the principal character, Pip, undergoes a tremendous change in character. ... It is here that he forms his "Great Expectations". ... A heartbroken, man-hating, miserable woman, and an emotional cripple help form pip's "Great Expectations". ...

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1. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens, 1840-1850 Victorian Era 2. Pip-Pip's real name is Philip Pirrip but as a young boy he could not pronounce it and was given the nickname Pip. Pip was an orphan since birth and his brother-in-law, Joe Gargery, has been his father figure, raising him alongside ...

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Great Expectations/ Farewell to Arms Comparison Essay In great works of literature authors use every aspect of writing, including tone, style, plot, setting and theme, to create a coherent novel. Nowhere is this more evident than in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations and Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, in which each writer used elements of literature in various ways to create the literary classics for which they are famous. Great Expectations illustrated the life of Phillip Pirrip, known to the reader as simply Pip, and everything he went through to gain what he desire...

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The language in Great Expectations is very formal. ... A great deal of imagery is used by the author, mostly being associated with characters, and also giving great detail to the emotions, experiences, and thoughts of Pip. ... A great deal of the characterisation in the novel is done through imagery. ... Syntax: The syntax in Great Expectations is much like the diction in as much as it is very formal. ... Visual imagery is used to a great extent in Great Expectations to picture scenes such as the marshes, and the busy streets of London. ...

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In Great Expectations, Pips benefactor seems to be Miss Haveshem. ... When reading Great Expectations you only get one side of the story because one person tells it, Pip. ... Joe acts as a father, a brother, and a friend throughout Great Expectations. ... A gentleman in the book was someone that possessed a lot of money, and social status, and "great expectations." ... Though Herbert pocket did not have "great expectations" he was still considered a gentleman because of his high status and money. ...

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In the novel, when Pip was told by Jaggers that he would make him a gentleman, Pip responded with a great deal of enthusiasm. ... When the novel Great Expectations was written, a setting of Pips home town being near the mores would have been ideal, and the belief that a gentlemen should live in London was also a perfect setting. ... As time goes on, values, standards and beliefs change, therefore to make the film great expectations more relevant to the responders, the characters, settings and beliefs need to be updated. ...

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In the book, Great Expectations, Pip changed a great deal from a puzzled boy to a sophisticated gentleman. ... Pip went through a lot of life changing situations, and Magwitch helped him out a great deal. ... This would not have happened if he did not go through all the experiences because these positive and negative experiences helped Pip achieve his expectations. ...

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Great Expectations has many characters that are foils of each other. ... Foils in Great Expectations include Biddy and Estella; Joe and Mrs. ... A character foil in Great Expectations would be Biddy and Estella. ... Finally, Pip and Estella make great foils for each other. ... Joe are a few foils from Great Expectations. ...

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