Abel Magwitch

about a lot of information about Pips history and under different circumstances it would have taken a lot longer to explain; things like Pip's parents and family, which were quickly and subtlety explained to the readers using the gravestones when Magwitch asked "Where's your mother?" and Pip's response being "There sir" as he points to his Mother, Father and five sibling's gravestones. Throughout the book the setting reflects Pip's mood e.g. Pip's experiences of suffering and torture, both mental

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man tells the story of Stephen Dedalus, a boy growing up in Ireland at the end of the nineteenth century, as he gradually decides to cast off all his social, familial, and religious constraints to live a life devoted to the art of writing. Right at the beginning of the novel is the epigraphy Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes. This loosely translates into “he sent his soul into unknown arts.” This epigraphy is the bases of the novel; how Stephen explores is body

In the Outsiders, written by S.E Hinton one of the main characters is Ponyboy. He is stereotyped as a greaser (a poor boy from the east side of town). Ponyboy accepts being a greaser and it affects him positively. Some people might stereotype Ponyboy as a hero and not a greaser. Ponyboy is a greaser, this is because he fits the characteristics of a greaser. For example, all the greasers have long greasy hair, pony has that. “Besides I look better with long greasy hair.” (2). This quote means that

“What then is freedom? - The power to live as one wishes” once said by Roman politician Marco Cierco, exemplifies the dream of the lower class before the French Revolution that would eventually become a reality with perseverance and strength. One novel in particular, follows a family and revolutionaries before and during the revolution. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens is a novel that has implemented the French Revolution in its tale. Some may wonder, what was Dickens’ actual attitude towards

In the novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Pip is a young orphan who lives with his abusive older sister and her husband, Mr. and Mrs.Joe Gargery. One evening, Pip and Joe are visited by a lawyer from London, Mr.Jaggers. Jaggers informs them that Pip has “great expectations” coming for him from a benefactor. What “great expectations” means for Pip is having to leave his past life, and begin to live his new life as a gentleman in London. Pip has been given these “great expectations”

to the first person point of view of Pip. Many characters show up throughout the story with specific relations to Pip. Mrs Joe is his sister, Estella is his love interest, and Magwitch his his benefactor. Charles Dickens intensifies Characterization in his novel Great Expectations to show how Mrs.Joe, Havisham, and Magwitch are viewed differently from Pip’s eyes compared to other characters in the story. Mrs.Joe is a character that is seen as terrifying and irrationally mean through Pip’s eyes. Through

Pip’s opinions of people to be constantly altered. Although Pip’s opinions of a lot of the characters in the book change, two of the most influential character transformations are those of Magwitch and Miss Havisham. The first character, Magwitch, is encountered at the very beginning of the story. Magwitch is an escaped convict that harrases

progression toward being a gentleman, he is faced with a world that appears frightening, a commercial world of protocol and etiquette that Pip blindly sees as the answer to the shortcomings he sees in himself.  He meets a man by the name of Magwitch, who he immediately refuses to see as anything but a cold criminal, one inadequate by his new-found standards.  He would later review these feelings and see that underneath the petty judgement Pip gives to the man, there rests a caring

to Jaggers, return to London, and Estella leaves. The third and final part of the book is where Estella’s Mysteries are mostly solved. We find out that Magwitch is Estella’s father. “I know I am quite myself. And the man we have in hiding down in the river, is Estella’s father”. (Page 392). Pip then fixes things with Magwitch before he dies. Time passes on, and Pip finds Estella once again, in Miss Havisham’s Garden. We find out that Estella had Married Drummle, but left him. They then

Charles Dickens uses his Philosophy skills to eject his personal life of his childhood through his work of fiction. I’m pretty sure Charles Dickens has many reasons of using this method to present himself to the world. With his level of education Mr. Dickens could have chosen millions of ways to interpret his point, his mother was even a teacher so I’m pretty sure he had a great sense of what he was doing. Charles Dickens was the second of seven children, so he can tell the story from any point of