... , Pip dear boy, I've made a gentleman on you! It's me wot has done it! I swore that time, sure as ever I earned a guinea, spec'lated and got rich, you should got rich." (Chapter 39, Page 298) This event plays an important role in this novel because during the whole story there is the mystery of who is Pip's benefactor. This changes the whole novel because Pip thinks ... in stature, with a square face, whose expression seemed to have been imperfectly chipped out with a dull-edged chisel. ... He had glittering eyes - small, keen, and black - and a thin wide mottled lip. He had had them, to...

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... until finally everything becomes clear. "Great Expectations" discusses various themes on crime, law and the criminal justice system. Through the novel Dicken's displays his point of view of criminality and punishment. This is shown in his portraits of all pieces of system: the lawyer, the clerk, the judge, the prison authorities and the convicts. He uses characters such as Mrs Joe Gargery and Magwitch to define people's common ... and goes on to say, "I've put away money, only for you to spend." He has done everything to fulfil his one task of making Pip a gentleman. "I"ll make that boy...

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... , and Marley, reform Scrooge, and, in your opinion, how successful are they? Ebenezer Scrooge is, at the beginning of the novel, a selfish, egotistic, miserly, stingy, voracious, greedy, tight fisted, cold hearted, reclusive, bitter, callous, harsh, heartless, unfeeling, cruel man who ... is missing out on, and how he is even pitied, even hated for being so miserable. The final shadow is the worst of all, and looks like death. "It was shrouded in a deep black garment, which concealed it's head, it's face, it's form, and left nothing of it visible ... as merry as a school boy. I am as gi...

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... Dickens encourages or criticizes. One of these characters is the city of Coketown, based on the city of Preston, which seems to have a personality of its own. The city represents the typical manufacturing town of the English midlands around the 1850s, the time in which the novel is set, and plays one of the most important roles. These factors put together the novel Hard Times is a brilliant work of social criticism, not ... is also an immoral and sinful place and the thought of the "black river", an allusion to the river Styx, almost makes it look like hell. All the streets look alike, ...

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... which he is exposed. It is written in the first person, which makes the novel more personal, and allows the reader to feel closer to the action. The opening paragraph is heavily descriptive, with great attention paid to the austere landscape. The bleak, stereotypical graveyard contributes to the sombre atmosphere and indicates something of Pips history. The atmosphere created is both oppressive and tyrannical which ... legal language. For example, the juxtaposition of the susceptible figure of Pip with this formal language: "wife of the above" in contrast with "bundle of shivers" This ad...

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... 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 ... maliciously toward males just as the black widow consumes her frail male lovers. 7. Social status is the most dominant theme in this work. Everything revolves around the separation of the social classes. The different settings like the Marsh Village and London show how different the classes lived. In the Marsh Village the...

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