Great Expectations Essays

In ‘Great Expectations’ Charles Dickens shows his marvellous talent by creating archetypal characters that readers can genuinely sympathise with and relate to. With an intricate mix of dialogues, direct description, setting and atmosphere, Dickens fashions characters that are striking and memorable. He utilises the characters to a great effect in …

Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth in 1812. Dickens was sent to school at the age of seven, this proved fairly pointless as Dickens’ father, John Dickens, soon fell into debt and was put into prison, the rest of the Dickens family, due to finances were forced to join their …

In Great Expectations Dickens uses different techniques to deliberately create sympathy for the character Pip in his opening exchanges with Miss Havisham and Estella. This essay will analyse and reflect on the ways in which Charles Dickens does this. The first meeting between Pip and Miss Havisham is arranged by …

‘To Kill a Mocking Bird’ and ‘Great Expectations’ are two novels written in Bildungsroman. That is they are both novels that describe a character’s childhood to adulthood. Also both of these are fictional-biographies, which mean that they are both made up character’s lives. ‘To Kill a Mocking Bird’ is set …

Pip grew up south of the river Thames in Kent. He lived in a small village and he was incredibly poor. He lived with his sister and her husband, who is a blacksmith, due to his parents had an unfortunate deaths. Pip presumed that he was also going to be …

In this essay I will be focusing on the novel, ‘Great Expectations. ‘ Charles Dickens was a 19th century writer which affects his writing and language used within the novel. He has also written many other famous books such as “Oliver Twist”, “The Christmas carols”, and “David Copperfield”. The novel, …

Pip, when he was a boy, knew nothing of the ‘high life’. Right at the beginning of the story Pip was caught by Abel Magwitch and Able forced Pip to help him. When Pip does, it was one of the best, or the worst events of his life. When Miss …

Throughout Charles Dickens’ ‘Great Expectations’ Pip’s character undergoes constant changes when it develops, matures, and his experience of the outside world grows. Dickens tells the story through Pip narrating and this gives him a personal connection with the reader and it is easy to understand and reciprocate his feelings. One …

Great Expectations is a bildungsroman written in 1861 by Charles Dickens. In the novel, we follow Pip throughout the early stages of his life, as he realises his own low social status in society. Pip has a working class background and is an aspiring blacksmith, but things change and he …

“I crossed the staircase landing, and entered the room she indicated. …It’s a great cake. A bride’s cake. Mine'” Chapter 11, Page 84-84 This commentary will be about a passage that is obtained from the book Great Expectations, a book that was written by Charles Dickens. The novel is about …