Category: Great Expectations

In the novel Great Expectation by Charles Dickens, the main character Pip grows and develops into a young gentleman, who learns many valuable life lessons about himself. Along his path of development, Pips knowledge and growth are influenced by his friends and family who act as his guardians. Throughout the novel Great Expectations, Pip receives…

This excerpt belongs to the novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. It is a novel set in the 19th century in London. The style of the narrative has three different levels of fiction which are the narrator that tells the story (Pip), the character called Pip and finally, the one who creates Pip who is…

Great Expectations analysis Uncle Pumblechook is Pips sloppy and messy uncle. He will shamelessly take credit for Pip’s rise in social status throughout the rest of the novel, even though he has nothing to do with it. Uncle Pumblechook: a large hard-breathing middle-aged slow man, with a mouth like a fish, dull staring eyes, and…

Introduction Character development is oftentimes character driven. Charles Dickens demonstrates this through a story of a young, innocent orphan boy named Philip Pirrup, otherwise known as Pip. Pip goes on various adventures through the novel and meets incredible characters such as Abel Magwitch and Estella (his tasteful love interest). Along the way, their social status…

Pip’s Journey from Innocence to Experience Charles Dickins Great Expectations is a bildungsroman novel narrated by Pip who is an orphan. Dickins characterisation of Pip sets him out as an idealist who hopes and works for self-improvement. This serves as the catalyst for Pips progression from the innocence of childhood in Kent to the demands…

What do you think Great Expectations is attempting to suggest about class and mobility in Victorian Britain? Abstract: Charles Dickens Great Expectations is a novel written in episodes to make readers feel empathy and to know what they really want from it. In this paper, I am going to describe how Dickens suggested class and…

One mans a blacksmith, and ones a whitesmith, and ones a goldsmith, and ones a coppersmith. Divisions among such must come, and must be met as they come (Dickens 224). Throughout history, people have experienced discrimination or prejudice based on their social class and societies have created ideas, attitudes, policies, and practices for the benefit…