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Great Expectations is used as an expression throughout the novel and it grows increasingly ironic each time the phrase appears. As often as Pip’s circumstances are supposed to improve, they seem to spiral further down.
The split personality of John Wemmick gave rise to an interesting discussion of public and private life. In London, Wemmick serves as clerk and bill collector to the lawyer Mr. Jaggers, collecting portable property from the condemned at Newgate prison and berating clients in suppor ...more
The split personality of John Wemmick gave rise to an interesting discussion of public and private life. In London, Wemmick serves as clerk and bill collector to the lawyer Mr. Jaggers, collecting portable property from the condemned at Newgate prison and berating clients in suppor ...more
I honestly don't know why this book is Dickens' most popular. It was okay, but not brilliant. It started out okay, the middle was excruciatingly boring, and the end was okay.
Let's start with the beginning.
You know how publishers/editors these days judge a book mostly by how suspenseful the beginning is? (I know, I've done the research) This was the case with this book. It starts put with an innocent boy being death-threatened by a convict who demands some dinner. It was interesting and I read t ...more
Let's start with the beginning.
You know how publishers/editors these days judge a book mostly by how suspenseful the beginning is? (I know, I've done the research) This was the case with this book. It starts put with an innocent boy being death-threatened by a convict who demands some dinner. It was interesting and I read t ...more
Charles Dickens wrote this in 1861. It is interesting to me that Pip was not leading a happy life until he got a job and was providing for himself. He had unusual opportunities but was unhappy until the story has him working for Herbert and paying his own way. 150 years later we have not concluded that this is a basic need for humans to feel good about themselves.
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