Life Essays

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 …

Both “Great Expectations” and “The Fallen Idol” are written by exceptional writers. The novel “Great Expectations” was set out in the Victorian period whereas the short story “The Fallen Idol” was set in the period of the 1940’s in London. “Great Expectations” was a buildings roman. This showed the process …

Great expectations was written by Charles dickens in 1861 and is about a boy named Pip who grows up to have great expectations of himself since meeting Mrs Havisham, a rich old lady. In this essay I will be looking at how Charles dickens, the writer of great expectations creates …

‘Great Expectations’ was written by Charles Dickens in 1861. ‘Great Expectations’ is a coming of age story that revolves around the life of one man Pip. From the time he was seven years old until he was in the mid thirties, Pip shows us the important events in his life …

Charles Dickens, author of Great Expectations, was born on the 7th February 1812. The novel is set in the early part of 19th century England and begins in a semi-rural setting. The text immediately focuses on the principal character and narrator, Phillip Pirrip, a name later abbreviated to “Pip”. It …

Dickens, one of the best novelists of all time wrote many books campaigning for social justice and work was filmed many times as he was a very famous actor. Making a film like this would require much thought and there are many problems a Director would face for example the …

Social class is central throughout the novel, and is the basis of which the plot is woven around. At the start of the novel Pip looks at the graves of his parents and tries to find out what people they were and what role they played in society. At this …