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    aristocrats are described. We also even get to see a working class boy (Pip) get turned into an aristocrat. Also, the injustice of the penile system is also explored, how innocent people such as Magwitch can be unfairly put into the system. Dickens gives a wonderful

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    Mehar Hashmi British Literature: Romanticism to Present Professor Duncan Hasell May 4, 2017 Great Expectations of Being Earnest In a class-based society, where your class will determine the rest of your life and who you will marry, what is better to improve in social class, hence improving all aspects of your life but at the price of sacrificing your moral code and ethics towards the people that are there for you and love you or to be honest, gentle, loyal, and respectfully to everyone around

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    The Rehabilitated Magwitch in Great Expectations      "A warmint, dear boy" is the answer that Magwitch gives Pip when asked what he was brought up to be (305; ch. 40). This is what any person would expect from a man who has lived a life of crime. With further exploration, however, one will see that it is deeper than petty theft and prison. By using a character such as Magwitch, Dickens suggests the implications of using the Australian penal colonies as a way of rehabilitation for criminals

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    attitude changed towards Magwitch in the chapters read. Pip is mostly focused on whether or not he will be recognized. Pip has become a more aware character, not just of his surroundings, but also of people's feelings. Magwitch's commit to change has really had an affect on Pip. Pip is not selfish and thinks of others, and shows that in the reading. Pip has a more positive attitude towards Magwitch now. He is no longer rude towards him. Pip's first impression of Magwitch was a cruel man. As

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    The Opening of Dickens' Great Expectations as Compelling Charles Dickens's "Great Expectations" contains one of the most famous opening chapters of a novel ever written. It is very effective in making the reader want to read on. He uses many techniques which makes each paragraph flow into the next. The novel was a very popular literary form in the Victorian period, in a time before the invention of modern forms of entertainment such as television and video. As the

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    named Pip transforms throughout the story. He makes mistakes and learns from those mistakes. Pip has multiple encounters with people that influence him in both positive and negative ways such as Miss Havisham, Magwitch and Joe Gargary. Although people may argue that either Joe Gargary or Magwitch are the most powerful influential fertilizers in Pip’s life, it appears that Miss Havisham is. As he is growing, he develops physically, mentally, and emotionally. Even though Miss Havisham is a powerful influence

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    The proverb, “once a thief,always a thief” comes into my head when reading this quote. Even though Magwitch adds on linen clothing and he refines his name, he is still a criminal. You can’t turn a criminal into a gentleman. I also feel that even Pip won’t ever become a gentleman, because he doesn’t know the criteria to become one. Herbert is a friend we hope we always have. Herbert is always there for Pip, even when he is mean or rude, because friends don’t judge.Pip is just the opposite. He is never

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    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

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    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

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    “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

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