Charles Dickens has left the revised ending of Great Expectations open to interpretation by the individual reader. The original ending is unconventional in that the fairytale does not have a happy ending. In contrast ... of the lower class; while Estella represents the superior class by sitting in her carriage and looking down at Pip to speak to him. The revised ending has Pip and Estella return to Satis House the place of their first encounter. In their first meeting there was a definite distinction between their classes. Pip the ... but since it was Pips infatuation with Estella that lead h...

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... the seventeenth century, but by the mid eighteen hundreds it had become firmly established in England as well. Such important Victorian novels as Great Expectations, base themselves on this form, which continues as an important literary sub-genre even today. The Bildungsroman typically told the story of ... a man growing from boyhood to adulthood. Charlotte Bronte's appropriation of the form for her heroine, represents one of the many ways in which her novel, Jane Eyre, challenges the accepted Victorian conceptions of gender hierarchy, making the statement that a woman's inner ... popula...

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... house policy-making decisions. The idea here is that each student should feel as though they have a say and that their opinion matters. A few major themes have been triggered in my description of the campus, comfort, community, choice, leadership, and power. Later in the paper, I will discuss the ways in ... class? While reading through the website, www.smith.edu, I learned more about the underlining goals of the school, all of which conformed to my earlier expectations of class values. First is the whole concept of a woman's college. Why would this be an advantage? By avoiding any other ...

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... house policy-making decisions. The idea here is that each student should feel as though they have a say and that their opinion matters. A few major themes have been triggered in my description of the campus, comfort, community, choice, leadership, and power. Later in the paper, I will discuss the ways in ... class? While reading through the website, www.smith.edu, I learned more about the underlining goals of the school, all of which conformed to my earlier expectations of class values. First is the whole concept of a woman's college. Why would this be an advantage? By avoiding any other ...

• Word Count: 2464
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School