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The present paper will address the degree to which the following statement may be considered to be accurate. "Great Expectations" concerns itself with anticipation and realization, and the impossibility of aligning the ideal and the actual. The central question, then, is this: does this statement address the pivotal questions of the text?

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The paper relates that one of the main characteristics of novels of Charles Dickens is the acute sympathy for the oppressed and the lower classes. The paper discusses how Dickens was keenly aware of the suffering of the 'little people' and he was very critical of the political and social circumstances of his time; his novels are full of the suffering experienced in the workhouses, homes and prisons of the lower classes in England and particularly in London. This paper examines the theme of suffering in "Great Expectations".

From the Paper
"One of the main characteristics of novels of Charles Dickens is the acute sympathy for the oppressed and the lower chasses. Dickens was keenly aware of the suffering of the `little people' and he was very critical of the political and social circumstances of his time. The novels are full of the suffering experienced in the workhouses, homes and prisons of the lower classes in England and particularly in London. "Great Expectations" does not deal as much with social problems as some of other Dickens's novels, but nevertheless, there is much suffering in the book. This paper will examine the theme of suffering in "Great Expectations". Some of the main characters..."

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The paper goes through the passages themes that reflect and elaborate upon the novel's themes, and also go through more mechanized and formal elements of the passage and how they relate to Dickens' time and "Great Expectations".

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"This passage in Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations" relates to the piece as a whole in terms of recognizing the themes of social ambition and self-delusion. "Great Expectations" first appeared in serialized form in 1860 and 1961. The novel as a whole is about Pip, who goes through specific "expectations" in his life: first, breaking free of his original lower-class agrarian existence, the second as a young up and coming in London and the third, the realities and hollowness of his upper-class strivings. The passage itself emphasizes the struggles Pip has with acquiring money and the value he places on monetary gain. "That I should....""

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In this article, the writer describes reading Charles Dickens' classic, 'Great Expectations'. The writer maintains that this book is one of the most insightful books about human beings and about the messy process of coming-of-age that one will ever encounter.

From the Paper
Great literature reaches out and touches us in ways that more pedestrian material cannot; it also teaches us things that we might not learn otherwise. For me, one of the most powerful works I have ever read was Charles Dickens' classic, Great Expectations; it is, without a doubt, one of the most insightful books about human beings and about the messy process of coming-of-age that one will ever encounter. What makes the book great is that it reveals so much about so many things. In Pip, we see a mal-treated boy who has ambitious dreams but who often wonders if he can ever achieve the social status and prominence necessary

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This four page paper analyzes Charles Dickens' novel "Great Expectations". It looks specifically at two characters, Pip, the central character, and his interactions and growth because of one other major character, Joe Gargery. The paper focuses on their relationship and how Pip is affected positively by Joe by learning from his qualities of honesty.

From the Paper
" Learning about Honesty in Great Expectations Charles Dickens' Great Expectations is not exactly a novel that is full of lies, but it is a novel full of half-truths. Miss Havisham uses Pip for her cruel amusement, allowing him to believe he will wed Estella and inherit money. Estella perpetuates him this mis-belief as she never tells him differently. Mr. Jaggers does not tell Pip that Magwitch is his true benefactor and in doing so maintains Pip's misunderstanding. However, one character is always completely honest with Pip: Joe Gargery. Joe never tells Pip anything but the truth, and by doing so places himself apart from the other characters. It is the irony of Great Expectations that, after all that Pip does to become a gentleman, the character who Pip learns the most honest qualities from is the blacksmith, Joe Gargery."

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This essay is a book report on the novel 'Great Expectations' by Charles Dickens. It provides a summary of the novel, followed by a paragraph commenting on the novel as a coming of age story. The novel tells the story of one Pip, showing his life from age 7 to adulthood, and telling of how he gradually realizes that he is himself and cannot change that by putting on airs.

From the Paper
"'Great Expectations' by Charles Dickens, tells the story of Pip, an orphan Pip growing up in Smithfield in the seventeenth century. The novel opens with a frightening scene in which an escaped convict corners young Pip A fearful man, all in coarse grey, with a great iron on his leg. A man with no hat, and with broken shoes, and with an old rag tied round his head. A man who had been soaked in water, and smothered in mud, and lamed by stones, and cut by flints, and stung by nettles, and torn by briars; who limped, and shivered, and glared and growled; and whose teeth chattered in his head as he seized me by the chin. "

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This paper analyzes the character Pip in the novel "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens. Through the character of Pip, the paper discusses the theme of identity and the way in which Pip seems to lack stable self-identity. The paper focuses on Dickens's character development throughout the novel.

From the Paper
"A Character Analysis of Pip in the Novel: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens In this literary study the theme of identity will be examined in a character analysis of Pip in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. In the novel Pip is a young man that is the narrator of the novel and main character uses to define identity. Pip is a confused character that is constantly seeking his own identity, but can never seem to really understand who he is or where he is going in life. In this manner, a character assessment of a lack of stable self-identity for Pip will be analyzed in relation to Dickens' character development in the novel. Pip in Great expectations is a crucial character in realizing how identity is confronted through his own class status in English society."

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This paper examines two great works, "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens and "A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess, as novels that fall under the Bildungsroman genre, which is a genre of novel that deals with the growth of the protagonist. The paper explains that the Bildungsroman novel chronicles the life of the hero from childhood to adulthood and the conflict that he meets and resolves on his way to wisdom. The paper then points out that some novels come under the umbrella of Bildungsroman but may contain few deviations such as Burgess' "A Clockwork Orange" and Dickens' "Great Expectations". The paper also looks at how compared to "A Clockwork Orange", "Great Expectations" is certainly a more conformist form of Bildungsroman but the one place where it deviates from tradition is the choice of narrator. The paper analyzes each novel in relation to Bildungsroman, and concludes that both novels are masterpieces in their own right, but Dickens's work is a better example of a true English Bildungsroman than Burgess' work.

From the Paper
"Dickens has used an adult voice to narrate the experiences of a child which is starkly different from other examples of the genre where narrator is either a third person or is the protagonist himself who grows with the novel. Buckley, in his book, Seasons of Youth explains the origin of Bildungsroman and its three distinct categories. He further adds that English Bildungsroman tradition was different from that of German's since the former was "in its broadest sense . . . a convenient synonym for the novel of youth or apprenticeship" (13). Buckley's intensive research indicates that English bildungsroman was not always completely autobiographical."

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In this tale, we are met by Pip, first a young boy taken under the wing of a felon who places him with a delusional old maid, then a snobbish young man with expectations of being a member of the aristocracy and finally as a humbled man who has learned the lesson of humility. Childhood is a time in which what we are and do then determines in great part who we will become. Dickens, clearly, employs a significant amount of his own past and dreams for this novel. The themes of good and evil, of right and wrong, of sadness and happiness are all played right along side of each other in a demonstration that life rarely follows a straight and narrow path, that it is important to experience a fall from grace, or to lose one's great expectations, in order to fully own one's life. The hard-working humble man that Pip becomes by the end of the book would have been an insufferable immature boor had a change not taken place. For children, disappointment is indeed a bitter teacher. But, it is a necessary one as well. For it is in later childhood and adolescence that we can begin to fully understand that life will not always go our way. Unfortunately, there are many with lives that protect them from such knowledge. For them, perhaps, connecting with Pip is impossible. For the rest of us, however, we can truly understand what it is to have great expectations and to see them disappear, only to find that we are indeed the better for it. The exploration of childhood, and the symbolic nature of young development, is absolutely essential to this book. We are able to watch as Pip's infantile dreams of greatness, riches and power turn him into a monster, for no one actually gets what they want simply because they want it. Only the fact that he is a child redeems him.

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This paper gives an overview of "Great Expectations" as the story of a young man who discovers that life as an adult is not simple and that there is a danger is pursuing ones childhood great expectations. The writer explains that two different endings are given by Dickens so that we don't know what exactly will happen in the relationship between Pip and Estella. The second ending in particular leaves Pip's future open and unclear. The paper argues that while we cannot definitely know what will happen to Pip and Estella we will see that both have grown up enough to make their own decisions and are quite likely to end up together. The writer explores the themes of childhood experience and dreams. It concludes by arguing that through reading the final chapter and in particular the revised ending, it becomes obvious that Pip and Estella have built up throughout the story to a final end, one with each other.

From the Paper
"Charles Dickens' novel, Great Expectations, is the story of a young man who grew up and out of poverty with grand dreams for his future, who discovers that life is not as easy or as pat as he once thought, and becomes a man in the end, aware of the dangers of pursuing too closely childhood's great expectations. In the end, even though there are two different endings offered by Dickens, we do not know exactly what will happen to Pip or to Estella. The second ending, in particular, helps us to understand that Pip's life is not clear and the future is as open as an adult as it seemed narrowly defined as a child."

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