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Pip And Odysseus
797 wordsComparing Character Traits With Odysseus From The Odyssey And Pip From Great Expectations 1. Thesis: Pip and Odysseus personalities are evident in more than one aspect. Our hero, Odysseus, not only shows bravery, but also tells lies for a purpose as Pip does too. Pips early childhood was spent in an honest moral atmosphere. With the entrance into his new life of outside influences he becomes ashamed of what he is and ambitious to change. 2. Main Idea 1: Pip and Odysseus tell lies for a purpose. ...
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Pip Unlike Miss Havisham
1,016 wordsIrony is the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning. The book Great Expectation is all about the irony in the situations that a boy named Pip brings into the entire story. Pip is on a search through life to reach high expectations of what he wants from life, this leads him to having different relationships with the different characters. Each character leads him to an understanding of himself an ironic situation, which he doesn't expect. Th...
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Pip's Ideas Of Social Class
873 wordsSelf Actualization in Great Expectations The ideal state of mind that a person can achieve is called self actualization or to become fully human. Charles Dickens' Great Expectations told the story of how a boy named Pip worked to achieved this. More specifically, Dickens wrote how Pip learning from his experiences was able to put external factors, like social class, aside, and discover his own potential. Only after this discovery did Pip gain true independence and was able to accept himself with...
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Pip's Relationship With Biddy
911 wordsGREAT EXPECTATIONS The major themes from Charles Dickens novel "Great Expectations" are discussed to their importance in life while concerning their structure. Out of these many themes I have chosen love in the context of human relationships, isolation and finally redemption. While in the state of isolation the loneliness that you bring upon yourself can only be redeemed by the opposite sex. The greatest sin we can commit against ourselves and others while in the state of isolation is by shunnin...
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Pip And Estella's Restrictive Upbringings
1,149 wordsGreat Expectations' main character, Phillip Pir rip- generally known as Pip- had a rough upbringing as a child. His sister, Mrs. Joe had "brought him up by hand", after their parents and five brothers had all been laid to rest many years ago. Another character, Herbert Pocket experienced a bizarre childhood, though in a different manner. Charles Dickens' Great Expectations develops through the novel following Pip, a young "common boy" who grew up in the countryside. As he matured so did his love...
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Joe And Pip
5,805 words... ought a rise and fall of appearances. Stage one of Pip's moral development begins with the innocent naivet'e of a child haunted by guilt, and closes with the snobbish rejection of a 'gentleman' plagued with shame. Pip had always been content living with his sister and her husband, Joe, despite her random violent rampages. Joe and Pip were 'ever best of friends'-even more than friends, 'soulmates'. Although there was a difference of age, the two were on identical mental pages. In the early po...
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Pip's Forgiveness And Love From Joe
1,065 wordsGREAT EXPECTATIONS. By Anne Gilmour. November 1996. Of the major themes from Charles Dickens novel " Great Expectations' to be discussed as to their importance concerning its structure, I have selected 'Love' in the context of human relationships, 'Isolation' and finally " Redemption'. The loneliness isolation brings can only be redeemed by the loving associate of our fellow man, this is a two way thing. 'Had grown diseased, as all minds do and must and will that reverse the appointed order of t...
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Estella Leaves Pip
815 wordsThe main character, Pip, who is an orphan, lives with his sister and her husband Joe has a passion for art. One day while at the marshes drawing, he meets an escaped convict who tells him to return with food and a file from his sister and Joe, or he will be killed. After Pip helps him, he is almost immediately recaptured by the police. After all of this, Pip is hired by a wealthy woman by the name of Ms. Havisham, as a playmate for her adopted daughter, Estella. Pip immediately falls in love wit...
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Pip's Shoes Joe And Biddy
766 wordsGreat Expectations: Injustices and Poor Conditions Committed On Women andChildrenGreat Expectations, authored by Victorian novelist Charles Dickens, is considered one of his finest works of literature. It was indicative of Dickens's strong feelings for injustices and poor conditions committed on women and children of that time. Through the main character, Pip, Dickens's demonstrated the compassion he felt for children. Most readers, like myself, are able to associate Pip's experiences with their...
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Pip And Joe
1,138 wordsPip is orphaned at childbirth and is raised by his sister and her husband, Mr. & Mrs. Joe Garg ery. He lives a pretty normal, happy life considering the circumstances. He sneaks around like a normal kid and one time he steals stuff to help an escaped convict. Anyway, one day he is called to Miss. Havisham's house to play. There he meets Estella and she is like the only lively, pretty thing in that house. Pip loves her but she constantly points out his faults. Now he realizes what a common, unedu...
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Hard Way As Pip
763 wordsGreat Expectations by: Charles Dickens In the book Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, the dominant theme is that true goodness and the value of goodness comes from inside a person, not their standing in society, or their wealth. There are some characters in the book who were aware of this, while there are some who tied to find out the hard way. Those who found out the hard way lead very difficult lives, and those who knew this truth, led more peaceful, and fulfilling lives. The main characte...
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Philip And Bains
1,274 wordsCompare The Portrayal Of Childhood In Charles Dickens Great Expectations And Graham Greenes The Charles Dickens Great expectations and Graham Greenes The Fallen Idol both portray childhood in very interesting and motivating ways. Great Expectations is a pre 20th century novel, showing how pips upbringing affects his childhood. The Fallen Idol shows many similarities as well as differences to Great Expectations to childhood based in the 20th century. Both texts are set out in very different ways....
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Pip And Joe
995 wordsAs characters transpire through a course of struggles, the traditional author carries them to a point of understanding and awareness. In the novel, Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens, characters are forced to face this struggle and eventually go on to reach their epiphany. However, this realization doesnt occur until after much devastation and damage has been caused. The eccentric Miss Havisham is one of these characters that is in constant battle with her emotional past. She uses her bitter...
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Gargery House And Pip And Joe
8,841 wordsEstella Havisham: Most readers are appalled at the cold-hearted and cruel ways of Estella, but any criticism directed at her is largely undeserved. She was simply raised in a controlled environment where she was, in essence, brainwashed by Miss Havisham. Nonetheless, her demeanor might lead one to suspect that she was a girl with a heart of ice. Estella is scornful from the moment she is introduced, when she remarks on Pip's coarse hands and thick boots. However, her beauty soon captivates Pip a...
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Web Of Guilt E.G. Pip
1,284 wordsThe novel, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens explores the values of class, honesty / chivalry, love, justice, guilt & family and how this affects people's expectations upon themselves and others. Class Class distinction has both positive and negative impacts. Class has a negative impact on people and their actions when it is distinguished solely by appearance and wealth e.g. motif of boots are used to associate with common people. A certain class appearance of a place or person can cause a p...
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Pip's Change
537 wordsPip's change is caused by both the changes in his environment and his changed stature in life. As a result of his changed stature he makes new friends which are influential, and his attitude toward his friends that he has from the beginning changes for the worse. His level of ingratitude stays the same for most of the book except for towards the end when Joe takes care of him. Most of the changes that came about made Pip's life more difficult. From the time when Pip was a little boy, Joe had alw...
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Pip Moves To London
466 wordsThe reconciliation of dreams and reality are the thematic base of Pip's, the protagonist of Great Expectations, experience. The way he pictures how he wants his life to be is different from how his life turns out. This paper will discuss Pip's outlook on life and how his dreams become his reality. Pip wants many different things out of his life. He wants to be able to make a name for himself and become someone. He doesn't expect to be much in the beginning of the story except being Joe's apprent...
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Convict Turns Pip
1,015 wordsAt the beginning of a novel a reader needs to find out where and who the main character is and what they are doing there. You would expect to find description of their surroundings and then what is going to happen in the story. "Great expectations" does all of these in the first two chapters it firstly tells you Who the main character is and then it goes on to explain were pip is by describing his father's tombstone, "I gave Pir rip as my fathers name on authority of his tombstone". Next it goes...
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Pip's Infatuation For Estella
1,091 wordsThere were several themes associated with the novel Great Expectations. One of the most fascinating themes dealt with "infatuation and how it compares to and relates to love' ("Infatuation'). Infatuation is basically an obsession, or extravagant affection towards a person (Webster, 667). There is really no definite reason behind their passion, therefore this feeling is often short in duration and indicative of faulty judgement (Webster, 667). The person doesn't know what these feelings mean, thi...
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Havisham And Mrs Joe Gargery
638 wordsCharacters in Great Expectations: Static or Dynamic? The characters in Great Expectations are the produc ts of extreme characterization. Each personality type represented is in its extreme, as though to make a point to the reader. Overall, the lesser characters in Great Expectations do not undergo a massive character change; that is, they remain static the whole time. The main role players, Pip, Miss. Havisham, and Mrs. Joe Gargery are the ones who undergo the most massive changes. Pip is first ...
