Great Expectations


Great Expectations
Is Great Expectations a novel of growth? by Hannah Curtis In "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens several of the main characters show positive signs of growth in their disposition towards others, outlook in life, and in experience as they mature throughout the course of the novel. Pip learns important l... More> Suffering in Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens by Kenneth Andrews Great Expectations is one of Charles Dickens's best-known novels. The novel follows orphan hero Pip from his early days as an apprentice blacksmith through his rise to the position of a young gentleman in London society at the behest of a ... More>
	The use of doubles in Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens by Kenneth Andrews In Great Expectations, Charles Dickens uses doubles to explore several of his characters and social themes, both to explore and contrast the personalities of his protagonists and to look at the old question of whether our personalities and actions a... More> Gratitude in Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens by Hannah Curtis Gratitude is the key theme in Charles Dickens' novel "Great Expectations", and this article will be exploring the integral part it plays within four relationships between five main characters. The leading male character is a young boy called Pip. He... More>
An overview of the strangest character in Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens by Carole Somerville By far the strangest character in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations is the wealthy Miss Havisham. Living in a world that is all "faded and yellow", the reader of Great Expectations might first feel pity for the woman who was jilted on her wedding ... More> Book reviews: Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens by Eleanor O'Donnell "Great Expectations" has been one of my favourite novels for many years now. Having worked my way through "Hard Times" and "Oliver", "Great Expectations" was the third of Dickens' novels I turned my attention to some five or six years ago now. If yo... More>
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