Revealing the Benefactor in Great Expectations
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In the novel Great Expectations, Pip is set in a poor common town and curiously comes into wealth which leads him on a journey to discover his own expectations. Using foreshadowing and pathetic fallacy, Dickens’ prepares readers for the climax of the story where Pip learns that it is Magwitch who is the benefactor. Dickens’ use of the presence of the convict theme, Pip’s expectations, and weather all help the reader understand Pip’s final realization of his true benefactor. First, Dickens’ uses the convict theme to repeatedly foreshadow Magwitch’s return. As a boy, when Pip is at the Three Jolly Bargemen with Joe, a strange man who seemed to be a former convict was stirring his drink with the file he had given his convict (Magwitch). As they are leaving, the strange man gives Pip a small sum of money, afterwards Pip explains, “He stirred his rum-and-water pointedly at me...and he stirred it and he tasted it: not with a spoon that was brought to him, but with a file”(Dickens, 81). This passage shows that although the small sum of money was strange cons...
In this essay, the author
- Opines that the person is from whom you derive your expectations, and the secret is solely held by them.
- Analyzes how magwitch's fogs/mists are repeated throughout the novel.
- Analyzes pip's dismay at magwitch being his true benefactor.
- Describes how magwitch in the marshes was bleak and the sky was filled with black and red angry.
- Analyzes how the novel keeps the reader engaged and anticipating what might happen next.
- Narrates the great expectations questions. what would you say the atmosphere of the first stage of great expectations?
- Explains weather as pathetic fallacy and foreshadowing in great expectations.
- Analyzes dickens' use of foreshadowing and pathetic fallacy to prepare readers for the climax of the story where pip learns that it is magwitch who is benefactor.
- Analyzes how pip is at the three jolly bargemen with joe when a strange man stirs his drink with the file he had given his convict (magwitch).
- Analyzes how the first time pip meets mr.jaggers is at satis house, and he appears again in kent when notifying him of his expectations.
- Narrates how magwitch arrived at pip's home in london and described the weather as wretched, stormy and wet.
- Explains that using literary devices is effective because the reader builds suspense to the climax of when benefactor is revealed.
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- Analyzes how the protagonist of great expectations, pip, is young, shy, and timid. he falls in love with estella, who is immoral and rude.
- Opines that the primary messages of great expectations are the importance of being kind to the ones whom you love and finding the meaning of a true friendship.
- Analyzes the irony between pip and abel magwitch in great expectations.
- Analyzes how pip was always being pushed around by grown-ups. he was in love with estella, who was mean to him and made fun of him.
- Opines that the meaning of great expectations is that people are not always what they seem. the girl that pip was in love with was beautiful, but a terrible person.
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In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how pip's expectations of marrying estella increase after he settles into london with his new friend herbert. he feels regret for not visiting joe and biddy, but doesn't do anything for his guilt.
- Analyzes how pip's dream of becoming a gentleman is realized upon his meeting of estella, the love of his life.
- Analyzes how pip rushes to see estella, even though she has always treated him cold-heartedly and lowly.
- Analyzes how pip's actions are based solely on his character, not greed or ambition.
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- Analyzes "great expectations" by charles dickens. the novel is in the first person, autobiographical form, where pip looks back at his past life and recounts the event which led to the situation.
- Explains that pip and magwitch appear in the opening sequences of the novel, but don't return until chapter 20.
- Explains that pip's mother, father, and five brothers died when he was a young boy. he had to live with his sister and her husband, the blacksmith joe gargery.
- Analyzes how magwitch is an escaped convict who fears for his life, but is a quiet religious man.
- Describes how pip met the convict when he was standing by his family's gravestones. he was scared and didn't know what to do until magwitch turned up at the house.
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- Describes how their mother's childhood move from virginia to north carolina was one of the best things that ever happened to her. the change of environment impacted her life forever.
- Analyzes how pip, the main character and narrator of charles dickens' great expectations, was orphaned. the death of his parents led to his bitter and cruel sister adopting him and raising him by hand.
- Analyzes how pip is greeted with a dismal atmosphere at the satis house, but estella's prideful demeanor makes him feel sub-ordinate. he feels ashamed of himself, joe, his home, and his commonness.
- Analyzes how pip adopts a snobbish attitude when he receives his fortune and is preparing to move to england.
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In this essay, the author
- Analyzes the movie, great expectations, based on the book of the same name written by charles dickens, about a poor, young boy named pip who's luck turns for the better when he meets an escaped convict.
- Narrates how pip is summoned by the curious miss havisham to play at satis house, where he meets the radiant, though stonyhearted, estella.
- Opines that all of the happenings in the story have seemed fairly plausible, albeit extremely lucky.
- Narrates how pip is approached by a mr. jaggers, who just-so-happens to be the lawyer of miss havisham, and informs him that he has come under the attention of an un-named wealthy person.
- Analyzes how the plausibility veers slightly into the grey areas of the plots. miss havisham helps pip with his apprenticeship, changes his social class, and provides him with a beautiful bride.
- Narrates how pip bonds with herbert pocket, a young man he met at satis house, and continues his studies for several years, earning income from his fortune.
- Narrates how the convict confesses to pip that it is he, not miss havisham, who has funded his new life.
- Analyzes how the convict was grateful for pip's help in his failed escape. magwitch, who isn't the best decision-maker, spent the rest of his free life just to repay him for a file and some food.
- Narrates how pip learns that the convict is being pursued by both the police and his former partner in crime who also turns out to be the father of estella.
- Narrates how pip's old partner, magwitch, drowned him, and he was taken into custody and hange that miss havisham had died. later, on a visit to the now abandoned satis house, the story ends.
- Analyzes how dickens' "great expectations" isn't plausible. the first half of the story may happen by chance, but the rest would have to happen in an extremely small world.
923 wordsRead More - Great Expectationsanalytical essaySoon after, Pip is told that his prior plans to be a blacksmith (he was apprenticed to his brother-in-law) were not to be and that he had come into Great Expectations. His benefactor was to remain a secret until the person revealed himself or herself, but Pip was certain that it was Miss Havisham. Pip was very happy not only because his new wealth but also because he was certain that he was to marry Estella whom he still loved. Pip moved to London where he befriended his new tutor’s son and his guardian’s co-worker.
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how dickens' novel, great expectations, depicts the emotions and feelings of the characters in the story and has a plot that keeps the reader’s interest.
- Narrates how pip visited wealthy old women named miss havisham and fell in love with the woman's adopted daughter estella, who despises him for being common and not a gentleman.
- Narrates how pip came into great expectations after being apprenticed to his brother-in-law. his benefactor was to remain a secret until the person revealed himself or herself. he moved to london where he befriended his new tutor's son.
- Narrates how pip was shocked when he found his benefactor to be not miss havisham, but rather the same man who helped him apprehend as a convict. his sister, who had raised him since his parents died, had died due to an attack.
- Narrates how pip discovered that his benefactor, named magwitch, was the real father of estella.
- Analyzes how dickens incorporated many effective writing techniques in his style of writing, which makes the novel enjoyable to the reader.
- Analyzes how dickens used dialect to make the story more real to the reader. he spelled out single words by the way in which the character would pronounce them.
- Analyzes how dickens used the technique of dialect when the "commoners" spoke, such as when joe spoke and said particular as "partickler." this juxtaposition of the commoners' speech and the wealthy persons' articulated speech allows the reader to understand the education difference between people of both classes.
- Analyzes how dickens repeats and stresses certain things that are said and felt by the characters. he stresses pip's misery and disgust when he learns who his benefactor truly is.
- Analyzes how dickens' use of analogies adds to the realness of the story and the reader's understanding of it.
- Explains that charles dickens novel is enjoyable because of the techniques that he used to make it more real to the reader.
- Analyzes how dickens used a dialect for the common people to speak in, which contrasted the differences in the education of the classes.
- Analyzes how dickens' ability to make the reader fully understand and relate to the feelings of his characters makes it a good literary work.
1150 wordsRead More - Pip's Perspectives on Social Classes in Great Expectationsanalytical essayGreat Expectations by Charles Dickens is a coming-of-age story written from December 1860 to 1861. Great Expectations follows the life of Phillip Pirrip, self-named Pip; as his “infant tongue could make of both name nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.” (I, Page 3) The story begins with Pip as a young child, destined to be the apprentice of his blacksmith brother-in-law, Joe Gargery. After spending time with an upper-class elderly woman, Miss Havesham and her adopted daughter, Estella, Estella, with whom he has fallen in love, he realizes that she could never love a person as common as himself, and his view on the social classes change. Pip’s view of society grows and changes with him, from anticipating the apprenticeship of Joe, to the idealization of the gentle class, and eventually turning to the disrespect of the lower class of which he once belonged. Although Pip may grow and physically mature, he did not necessarily grow to be a better person. He loses his childhood innocence and compassion, in exchange for the ways of the gentlemen.
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how great expectations by charles dickens follows the life of phillip pirrip, self-named pip. he is destined to be the apprentice of his blacksmith brother-in-law, joe gargery.
- Analyzes how pip, an innocent and gullible child, assumes another man in the marsh is the young man on the way to bring abel the food without speaking a word of what he had seen.
- Analyzes how pip realizes that becoming the apprentice to the blacksmith is no longer what he wishes for in life. he wants to be with estella, and the only way for that to happen is by being a gentleman.
- Describes how they set off on the four-mile walk to our forge, pondering, as they went along, on all they had seen, and deeply revolving that they were a common labouring-boy.
- Analyzes how pip's attitude towards the status of those he cares about has declined over the years of his apprenticeship.
- Analyzes how pip's attitude towards the common has taken a turn for the worse. he begins to treat them as if they are below him.
- Analyzes how pip learned and grew, but he did not mature as an individual. he became rude to those who cared about him, speaking down to them as if they were much superior. joe and biddy kept learning and growing throughout the book.
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