Expectations Essays

Charles Dickens wrote Great Expectations in 1860-1861. The book is written in the past tense through the eyes of an older Pip and is narrated by Pip himself – Auto-Diagesis. The book has many themes and symbols and has become a classic in today’s world. We first come across a …

Abel Magwitch, the convict and Pip’s secret benefactor is also the father of Estella (though we do not find this out until Magwitch is soon to die, which another example of the two perspectives and withholding information). Both these characters, father and daughter, try to escape their roots. Magwitch’s childhood …

Although this story is unconventional it employs many techniques found in the more conventional ghost stories, use of tension, suspense and doubt. Storr takes and develops all that is in the more conventional story, applying it in different ways to crossing over. The writer continually questions the way in which …

A Tale of Two Cities is said to be Dickens’ best constructed novel, as his first few were criticized to be strings of sketches. Great Expectations, for example, had a looser framework, as the plot did not include much structure and style, compassing merely of a first-person account of events. …

Van Helsing has many genres, Action / Adventure / Horror / Fantasy / Thriller. Horror is included but it isn’t necessary the main genre. The first big main horror film company was Hammer house of horror that first made such classics as Dracula, The Curse of Frankenstein and The Mummy. …

This paper provides an overview of the effects of expectations on student achievement. It begins with a brief introduction covering Jacobson and Rosenthal’s Pygmalion Effect. Then, It Introduces expectations from three sources – teachers, parents, and students. The paper discusses how high or low expectations from teachers affect student learning. …

As a young child, the orphan Pip lives with his sister and brother-in-law, the village blacksmith. On Christmas Eve, Pip is walking through the marshes when he meets an escaped convict who threatens him into bringing back food and a file to break the leg-irons. On Christmas Day, the convict …

Conscience is truly a dreadful thing. It judges us more heavily than any court and is inescapable. Mahatma Gandhi once said that, “There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all other courts.” Conscience affects all of us. It is …

The title of Charles Dickens’ novel, Great Expectations, refers to Pip’s many expectations. Pip expects to inherit money, but he first has to be educated a gentleman. Pip has “great expectations” of himself and Jaggers also tells Pip that “he is a young man of great expectations”. During the time …

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens tells a story of a young boy named Pip who grew up in a lower class but slowly finds himself transforming into society’s view of a ‘gentleman’ in order to gain the approval of Estella. Throughout the Novel many characters, such as Joe, Estella, and …