(Miss)understood

vicariously, namely through Pip as he goes back and for the to Miss Havisham’s: If a dread of not being understood be hidden in the breasts of other young people to anything like the extent of which it used to be hidden in mine… it is the key to many reservations. I felt convinced that if I described Miss Havisham’s as my eyes had seen it, I should not be understood. Not only that, but I felt convinced that Miss Havisham, too, would not be understood; and although she was perfectly incomprehensible to me

The Dreamland Battle: Miss Saigon, Representation and Opportunity On March 23, 2017, Miss Saigon, one of the most beloved and most protested musical, returned to New York at the Broadway Theatre, the same venue the show debuted and played for 10 years from 1991 to 2001. Both productions moved from West End to Broadway, creating numerous casting opportunities for Asian-American actors in New York, where Asian productions are rarely produced. The last Asian Broadway production, Allegiance, ended

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

In Ernest Hemingway’s haunting short story “Soldier’s Home” and Katherine Mansfield’s insightful short story “Miss Brill”, both isolated characters, Krebs and Miss Brill, experiences the many pratfalls of their solitude. Krebs and Miss Brill are both victims of isolation but for different reasons. They deal with different types of isolation, family support and perception of reality that hinder them from fully assimilating in to the present reality around them. Isolation can be used as a tool for

Pip feel the need to lie about Miss Havisham when he is questioned about her by Mrs. Joe and Mr. Pumblechook? Why is he confident Mr.Pumblechook will not correct his story? Pip feels the need to lie about Miss Havisham because he feels that they won’t believe him and doesn’t want to publicly humiliate her. He is certain Mr. Pumblechook will not correct his story because he does not know her. 2. What advice does Joe give Pip when Pip confesses that the stories about Miss Havisham  are lies? Joe advices

Dickens introduced Pip as a child, an element essential to the understanding of Pip’s internal moralistic struggles. The establishment of young Pip makes the audience view Pip as an innocent and honest person. Children are often deemed to be more honest and simple than adults. When Pip first encounters the convict, the appearance of him scares Pip out of his mind. The man threatens Pip to bring him a few items otherwise he will go after his family. He also tells Pip to not tell a soul about him or

Miss Havisham had been heartbroken by Compeyson earlier in her life and she never completely recovered from that heartbreak. Out of revenge she taught Estella also to be cruel to men. Miss Havisham tells Estella: “Break their hearts, my pride and hope, break their hearts and have no mercy” (Dickens 94)! Later in the story, Estella and Miss Havisham get into a fight and Estella says that Miss Havisham had “taught her to be proud and hard” (Dickens 306). If Miss Havisham had not

another.” This quote from Little Miss Sunshine depicts the exact meaning behind the movie.. In the movie, a dysfunctional family helps their daughter, who is not the stereotypical pageant girl, attend a beauty contest, although she was far from a beauty queen.  The movie used visual rhetoric to claim although society has a constant need for perfection and certain cultural stereotypes, it is our imperfections that make us perfect.     First and foremost, Little Miss Sunshine establishes ethos in its

However, Pip brings Joe to Miss Havisham, on her request. Pip is embarrassed of Joe's clothing, the way he fiddles with his hat and how he walks on his tiptoes as they enter the house of Miss Havisham. He comments that Joe's dialect seems unusually strong and illiterate. As Miss Havisham questions Joe about starting Pip on his apprenticeship, Joe directs his answers towards Pip, who continually tries to make Joe address Miss Havisham. He is embarrassed of Joe and for Joe. Pip

becomes more astute and he desires self-improvement. Since social injustice is invisible to many individuals, Charles Dickens makes the invisible visible to his readers, by incorporating the literary device of characterization. Estella, daughter of Miss Havisham, is not as compassionate and sincere one would expect from a noblewoman, and instead, she is the opposite. Fueled by cruelty and hatred, Estella’s characterizations exemplifies the shallow upper class, and how her opinions on