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    Eduardo Urdaneta Montresor and Fortunato are best friends who also work together. Montresor has been traveling a lot lately due to his recent promotion in his position. He has just received a notice from his boss that he must go attend several conferences in Spain for a month. Upon receiving the undesirable news, Montresor’s wife, Chardonnay gets very upset but eventually acknowledges that traveling this much is essential to the new position that he holds now. Montresor knows that these four

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    ‘Great Expectations’ is a highly acclaimed novel written by Charles Dickens first published in 1861, which follows the journey of a young boy commonly known as Pip (his Christian name being Phillip Pirrip) who is born into a middle-class family but goes on to receive riches from a mysterious benefactor in order to pursue his childhood dream in becoming a gentleman. The story is written in first person with Charles Dickens writing back about the experiences of Pip. Although it isn’t his autobiography

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    cultural and societal environment around him in 1887; this suggests themes throughout Miss Julie, such as gender inequality and women’s’ rights, were inflicted by his own struggle between classes and promiscuous relationships with women. It becomes apparent in the play that Miss Julie, a self-portrait of Strindberg, typifies Strindberg’s creative energy and the close relationship between his writing and lifestyle. Miss Julie’s downfall can be associated with many aspects of her life, ranging from the

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    Achieving Measure of Contentment in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations Works Cited Not Included Great Expectations is a novel that not only satires the issues of Victorian society, such as status and crime, but additionally centres on the rites of passage for a child living in that society. It is through this central

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    The Influence of Women

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    different personae by Mrs. Joe, Miss Havisham, Estella, and Biddy, and he learns important lessons from each of them. In the first few

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    raised by his sister and brother in law. Growing a dream of becoming a blacksmith like his brother-in-law, Pip was innocent and fulfilled with his plain and the peaceful life. However, after Pip meets several life-changing events, such as meeting with Miss Havisham and becoming a great heritor, Pip confronts with many inner conflicts and adapts to the new circumstances, which allow him to become a more sophisticated gentleman while losing the true happiness and pure heart. Pip significantly contributes

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    subsidiary characters, Orlick and Drummle. Moynahan’s critical analysis of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations describes parallels between Pip and minor characters, especially Orlick and Drummle, is cogent, yet the perspective that Pip’s psychology causes Miss Havisham’s death is arguable. It is apparent that Pip suffers a great deal of hardships throughout his life. His character never tries to hurt any one else, but he is indirectly connected with harm, due to his association with Orlick and Drummle.

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    with his sister and her husband who is a blacksmith, one day he is requested to play at Miss Havisham’s Manor and he falls in love with her daughter, Estella, who gives him the aspiration to become a gentleman to win her love. He then receives his great

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    Since the introduction of the Miss America pageant in 1921, there have been thousands of organizations holding beauty pageants for children over the decades, but what are the various consequences that emerge from the children by allowing them to be judge for their beauty? From 2010 through 2013, the television network TLC captured the lives of frantic parents and their children competing in beauty pageants around the country though the show Toddlers and Tiaras. The show became widely infamous for

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    Analysing the Female Characters in Henry James' Fiction ‘A woman it seems to me has no natural place anywhere; wherever she finds herself, she has to remain on the surface and more or less to control’ Discuss James’ representations of ‘places’ for women in his novels. There is an impressive range of female characters in Henry James’ fiction. Drawn to the world of wealth and leisure as a subject

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