... location of the industrial age, it serves Dickens" intent of presenting industrialism at its worst. Many of the details of Coketown are based on truths about on these booming urban towns, but Dickens slightly exaggerates them to focus the readers" attention on the points of the age he would like to ... of any feeling or emotion, lacking any character or softness: "All the public inscriptions in the town were painted alike, in severe characters of black and white" (31). These letters, like the rest of Coketown, are lacking any vibrant or lively coloration, and are drawn out precisely to ...

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... I was at that time undersized for my years, and not strong." (Chapter 1, Page 2) He was an innocent, polite and caring boy but then changed into a snob who forgot about his old friends. Throughout the whole story his personality color was gold. His caring personality comes out in the end of the story to ... This is shown in the story when Pip states, "...his large head, his dark complexion, his deep-set eyes, his bushy black eyebrows, his large watch-chain, his strong black dots of beard and whisker, and even the smell of scented soap on his great hand." (Chapter 18, Page 128) He ... ...

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... the switch comes with the fog being 'in the eyes and throats' and 'cruelly pinching the toes and fingers of his shivering little 'prentice boy on deck' to the metaphorical. The latter, while it could still be considered a physical fog, indicates instead the extended metaphor of the city's sickness, ... . 'Smoke lowering down from chimney-potswith flakes of soot..as big snowflakes pure and cleansing. In this case the "snow" is black, perverting the natural image-but this is his point. It is perverse, it is wrong, and it shows that this scene is not what it ... city, living ...

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... novel, a selfish, egotistic, miserly, stingy, voracious, greedy, tight fisted, cold hearted, reclusive, bitter, callous, harsh, heartless, unfeeling, cruel man who cares only about making money. "A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!" He thinks of Christmas as a "humbug", "Out upon merry Christmas! What's Christmas ... know! One Christmas time, when yonder solitary child was left here all alone, he did come, for the first time, just like that. Poor boy!", Scrooge exclaimed in ecstasy". Scrooge speaks very enthusiastically, on a topic that he wouldn...

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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, ... him alongside his wife, Pip's sister. Pip has "great expectations" in that he wants to better his social status. In doing this Pip rejects those that care about him in order to achieve his goals. Only after the realization that he cannot better himself does he understand the value of good friends. Joe- Joe Gargery is ... in life. Even when his ...

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... has replaced an external standard of value with an internal value. The character Magwitch is not only powerful in itself but it shows us what Dicken's thought about crime. Dicken's was trying to find the good in even the darkest of characters. In chapter one, Dickens uses metaphors and similes to describe the setting ... Magwitch is not very well and says to him "I think you have got the ague." And Magwitch agrees with Pip and says "I"m much of your opinion boy." Magwitch shows trust in Pip he asks Pip if he has brought anyone with him and Pip tells him no. Magwitch replies to this saying...

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... indicate that a prisoner has escaped: "Mrs. Joe," said I, "I should like to know-if you wouldn't much mind-where the firing comes from." "Lord bless the boy!" exclaimed my sister, as if she didn't quite mean that, but rather the contrary. "From the Hulks!" "Oh-h!" said I, looking at Joe. "Hulks!" Joe ... gave a reproached cough, as much as to say, "Well, I told you so." "And please, what's Hulks?" and I. "That's the way with this boy!" exclaimed my sister. "Answer him one question, and he"ll ask you a dozen directly. Hulks are prison-ships, right "cross th" meches." We always used that n...

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... sadness in the book. Scrooge falls asleep and wakes up to find the Ghost of Christmas Past, who shows Scrooge scenes from the past that trace Scrooge's development from a young boy, lonely but with the potential for happiness to a young man with the 2 first traces of greed that would deny love in his life. Scrooge goes to sleep and is awakened ... tells Scrooge that he must change the future or the Cratchit's crippled son Tiny Tim would die. He also shows Scrooge the party at his nephews house Fred. The silent black- clad Ghost Of Christmas Yet to Come replaces the other ghost. He shows...

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Great Expectations by Charles Dickens outlines and follows the life of the young boy Pip who grows up to live the life he has always dreamed of. In describing this story Dickens incorporates a number of themes ... the chosen theme of a social reformer, but rather as a constant reminder of the shame of his own boyhood and as a symbol of some of his maturest institutions about the nature of human existence." It is said that Dickens wrote articles concerning "Crime and Education" as well as "Crime and Punishment" for the "Daily News" and ... prison-writing should start there." Great Expectatio...

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... that is introduced. The first sign that the reader gets of this is the ray of sunlight that shines on her and on a young boy named Bitzer. This ray contrasts the two, making Cecilia more radiant and full of warmth and Bitzer even colder and more transparent. Cecilia is ... this failure cannot be blamed on the fact that part of him craves feeling, because he is completely devoid of sentiment. When his face is painted black in Sleary's circus it is clearly a sign of sin, and he has been sinful indeed. He is justly described as a "whelp". Knowing all ... want that information and are doing ...

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... vast majority take. The landscape is more than just a description, and with the use of the weather suggests something ominous that is about to happen. They both use the pathetic fallacy where the internal emotions of the characters are being externalised. Both novels contain a juxtaposition of ... name "Pip" is a child-like nickname. It conveys the helplessness and irrelevance of a small young boy. Throughout the novel Pip remains in a child-like state of suspension, lacking vital knowledge about his benefactors identity. However, the way Dickens has related this to us is not sentimental...

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