Knave of Hearts

Great Expectations Extended Written Response 1. One of the most important lessons Pip learns in Great Expectations is that a full wallet doesn't guarantee a good heart or a good life, but a good heart will secure a good life and a nice sized wallet. In the beginning of Great Expectations, Pip knows that his family isn't rich, but he's satisfied with what he has. He doesn't come across the wicked ideal until he visits the Satis House. Miss Havisham, the wealthy lady who resides there, owns much

Part A: B: 1.tureen large deep serving dish with a cover "Beautiful Soup, so rich and green, Waiting in a hot tureen! Who for such dainties would not stoop? Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup! Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup! 2.sluggard an idle slothful person "Stand up and repeat, ` 'Tis the voice of the sluggard, ' " said the Gryphon. 3.askance with suspicion or disapproval "You can really have no notion how delightful it

‧ The Queen of Hearts in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a nonsense novel created by Lewis Carroll in 1865. The story begins with Alice follows a clothed rabbit to a rabbit hole. She goes to a couple bazaar places and meets talking animals. In chapter eight, Alice encounters three playing cards painting the white roses into red because The Queen of Hearts hates white roses. She is a character who always angry and yells “Off with their heads!” She invites Alice

of mind. This is also where another aspect of the dream logic comes into play. Alice becomes the center of attention during the trial. When Alice grows back to her normal size, she draws all the attention to herself, the Knave all but forgotten

The Scale of Values in Alexander Pope's Poem The Rape of the Lock I found Alexander Pope's "The Rape of the Lock" a delightful, amusing poem. Throughout the poem, trivialities are compared with events and objects or consequence and the insignificant is treated with utmost importance. Its very title gives the reader an immediate clue; "rape" and all its connotations bring to mind a heinous crime of physical and spiritual violation. Perhaps this description could apply to the theft of a lock of

in the house. He is now scared of Miss Havisham because of this strange behaviour and he wants to leave. He finds Miss Havisham intimidating. Soon after we have been introduced to Miss Havisham, she reveals to Pip that she has had her heart broken. The reader feels very sorry for Pip in this next extract because we find out that

Let it be resolved that in William Shakespeare’s tragic play King Lear, there is an occurrence of catharsis. A tragedy is a form of drama based on human suffering that invokes catharsis or pleasure. Furthermore, catharsis is the process of releasing, and providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions of pity and fear. Thus, catharsis is evident in a play when it follows the cycle of a tragic hero and the protagonist, Lear follows this format. King Lear asks his daughters to express their love

Great Expectations Theme Analysis                   The quest to improve oneself, rise in social circles or accumulate wealth to find happiness is a journey many have embarked on. In the novel Great Expectations, Charles Dickens explores this topic through the character Pip, a young orphan boy living in lower class England during the mid-1800’s. The overriding theme of the book is clear:  love, loyalty, and integrity are more fulfilling than social status, wealth, and class. The title of the book

me believe so...I was more deceived.” (III i 125/129). During this run in with Hamlet, he reveals to Ophelia that he actually never loved her and that she should never believe a man: “We are arrant knaves all: believe none of us.” (III i 137). With the influence of her father and listening to her heart for Hamlet’s love, she portrays tragic flaws that lead to her

self possessed; and she was as scornful of me as if she had been one-an-twenty, and a queen". So from the start Pip is in awe of Estella because of her beauty. It seems Miss. Havisham has taught her well in that she was supposed to win men's hearts and then break them. This was Miss. Havisham's way of seeking revenge on the male sex after she was left at the altar. Everything in Manor House is exactly as it was at that moment when she was left at the altar, and Estella was brought up to seek