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Flower Girl Stage Directions
1,096 wordsIn the preface Shaw describes the Oxford phonetician Henry Sweet, on whom Professor Higgins is modeled, but warns us that Higgins is not a portrait of Sweet. Shaw says that he wrote the play in order to make the English aware of the importance of phonetics, and he is grateful that the play has been a great success on the stage. He complains that the way English is written has little to do with the way it is pronounced, and he pleads for a new alphabet and a reform in spelling. A heavy late-night...
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Lived His Life Miss Havisham
1,294 wordsThroughout this novel of Great Expectations characters are divided into upper class and lower class people. Unlike most young men in the 19 th century, Pip was not either of these, but both. Pip grew up with his sister Mrs Joe Gargery and her husband, Mr Joe who had grown up with no education, but taught himself to become a blacksmith. Joe wanted to pass on his talent to pip and treated him with great respect and almost as his own son. Pip was very close to him, and because Joe grew up running a...
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Abel Magwitch Curley Wife
1,173 words... who is simply villainous, is knocked down by Joe "as if he had been of no more account than the pale young gentleman", and Pip knows of no-one who could stand up long against Joe, although Joe is not at all aggressive. In defending Pip's interests before Jaggers, he becomes menacing but Jaggers swiftly placates him. Chapter 27, occurs after Pip has discovered his expectations. He has gone to London to be brought up as a gentleman. Dickens, in the novel, exploits the ambiguity of the term gen...
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Wife And Children Heavy Burden
3,101 words... thee counsel? Chr. If it be good, I will; for I stand in need of good counsel. World. I would advise thee, then, that thou with all speed get thyself rid of thy burden; for thou wilt never be settled in thy mind till then; nor canst thou enjoy the benefits of the blessing which God hath bestowed upon thee till then. Chr. That is that which I seek for, even to be rid of this heavy burden; but get it off myself, I cannot; nor is there any man in our country that can take it off my shoulders; t...
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Gentleman Callers Glass Menagerie
2,055 wordsThe Glass Menagerie Author Charles Colton once wrote, To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet. Sociologically, human beings are categorized on two major premises; function and conflict. On the Macro analysis level, the conflict theory views society as being characterized by social inequality where social life is a struggle for scarce resources (Kendall, 22). On the other hand, ...
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Stoops To Conquer Moll Flanders
1,557 wordsLove, Sex and Money in the Eighteenth Century Our aim in this paper will be to analyze and discuss the different ways in which love, sex and money were dealt with during the eighteenth century and to what extent these terms were linked together or considered as opposite. To accomplish this matter we are going to focus our attention on several works that are representative from this period and that reflect in an accurate way the social mores and more specifically, marriage conventions and romanti...
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Miss Havisham Charles Dickens
1,546 wordsMoral Spectrum and Setting in Great Expectations It was Dickens thirteenth novel called Great Expectations written in 1860. At that time, he was already a national hero. Great Expectations is probably Dickens most complete and mature work. Pip in the novel is the most autobiographical of all of Dickens thousands of characters. Dickens had come from humble life start-ups, working as a child in a shoe polish factory, meanwhile his family was set into the debtor's prison. Such a difficult childhood...
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Upper Middle Class 19 Th Century England
1,428 wordsThere are many common, familiar clich? s about illusion versus truth. All that glitters is not gold and Things are seldom what they seem are the most universal hackneyed phrases, but they do not cover entirely every aspect of appearance versus reality. In Charles Dickens novel, Great Expectations, there are several differences between the illusion and the truth. The appearance of certain things is often detrimental to the outcomes of characters when the reality of a situation is revealed. These ...
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Brother In Law Pip
1,562 wordsIn Great Expectations, Pip, the protagonist and narrator of the story grows from a young child to a mannerly gentleman with high social status. Throughout the story he goes through many changes. However, in the end it turns out that Pip was handed too much too quickly. Bad fortune falls upon him and he is sent back to his poor home in Kent. All considered though, this novel is a true story of love and in the end true happiness for Pip is obtained. Great Expectations was set in early Victorian ti...
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Fell In Love Miss Havisham
961 wordsGreat Expectations Essay Some people are willing to do just about anything for love and on the account of it. This is evident in everyday life, as one may watch a friend change for a loved one. However, it does not make a difference whether the change occurs consciously or unconsciously. The important thing is that it occurs. Remarkably, love has a way of transforming people. It may turn a common boy into a gentlemen, a hardened convict into a compassionate man or a beautiful bride into miserabl...
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Sums Of Money Pip Feels
1,998 wordsGreat Expectations Journal 1. What is your first reaction to Pip and his crisis with the convict? Would you have acted and felt these way? Write down any thoughts, opinions or questions that you may have. When Pip meets the convict in the churchyard I felt that Pip would be subjected to great danger. After the boy is grabbed and shaken while upside down the convict interrogates the boy. I think Pip might have told the convict too much. In todays world telling a stranger specifics about location ...
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Sentenced To Death Crime And Punishment
3,335 wordsGreat Expectations: The World Of Laws, Crime Great Expectations: The World Of Laws, Crime And Punishment The World of Laws, Crime and Punishment in Great Expectations Great Expectations criticises the Victorian judicial and penal system. Through the novel, Charles Dickens displays his point of view of criminality and punishment. This is shown in his portraits of all pieces of such system: the lawyer, the clerk, the judge, the prison authorities and the convicts. In treating the theme of the Vict...
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18 Th Century Station In Life
2,919 wordsI love but hate, I laugh without a smile, I am ridiculous and respected, hypocrite and honest, a nonsense with reason, a convict and a gentleman. Isnt that the world we live in? He is using a subtle form of humour by saying things that he does not mean. This situation is odd or amusing because it involves a contrast. Irony kills, laughs, denounces, argues but is hidden behind words to look not so politically incorrect. Daniel Defoe was one of those who wanted to denounce society's incongruities....
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Gentleman Caller Amanda Wingfield
716 wordsIs Gentleman Jim the Savior? Is a man the solution to a family's problems? In The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, Jim OConnor, the gentleman caller, could be the resolution to the Wingfield's predicaments. Throughout the play Laura Wingfield, the daughter, lives in her childhood. If she married Jim OConnor, it would fulfill a dream from her days of youth. Secondly, Amanda Wingfield, the mother, needs to get her daughter out on her own. If Lauramarried Jim, it would take her away from the ...
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Arthurian Legends Middle Ages
3,808 wordsKing Arthur The legends of King Arthur of Britain and his Knights of the Round Table, among the most popular and beloved of all time, originated in the Middle Ages. As they do today, medieval people listened to the accounts of Arthur with fascination and awe. It is certain that popular folktales were told about a hero named Arthur throughout the Celtic parts of the British Isles and France, especially in Wales, Cornwall, and Brittany (Lunt 76). Other stories of chivalry that did not include Arth...
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One Is Born Stoops To Conquer
3,215 wordsOur aim in this paper will be to analyze and discuss the different ways in which love and marriage were dealt with during the eighteenth century and to what extent these two terms were linked together or considered as opposite. To accomplish this matter we are going to focus our attention on several works that are representative from this period and that reflect in an accurate way the social mores and more specifically, marriage conventions and romantic love. Throughout this discussion we will b...
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George Bernard Shaw Upper Class Society
1,564 wordsPygmalion and My Fair Lady are a modern parallel of the story of Pygmalion, legendary sculptor and King of Cyprus, who fell in love with his own statue of Aphrodite. At his prayer, Aphrodite brought the statue to life as Galatea. George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion is the story of Henry Higgins, a master phonetician, and his mischievous plot to pass a common flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, off as a duchess at the Embassy Ball. In order to achieve his goal, Higgins must teach Eliza how to speak pr...
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Henry Higgins Professor Higgins
789 wordsBernard Shaw shows and describes Professor Higgins throughout Pygmalion as a very rude man. While one may expect a very well-educated man, such as Higgins, to be a gentleman, he is far from being a gentleman. Higgins believes that the way you treat someone is not important, as long as you treat everyone equally. The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you w...
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Saving Private Ryan World War Ii
1,154 wordsThe film industry of the 20 th century has done all that it could to manipulate the viewers of the world. Whether good, or bad propaganda in film has been a major source for molding the publics minds to fit the political correct way of thinking at that particular time. Saving Private Ryan and an Officer and a gentleman are both movies that i believe to be propaganda films for the united states in concern of war. Both of these movies deal with the united states armed services, but the message beh...
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Escape From Reality Mother And Sister
1,790 wordsSymbolism is a major aspect in Tennessee Williams famous play, " The Glass Menagerie. " On the surface, the short slice of life story seems to be simple. However, if the reader digs deeper they will find that there are several symbols that give the play a deeper meaning. Each character defines each symbol in a different way. Aside from character symbols, there is overall symbolism in this play. It is set in a memory, so it creates a soft, dream-like setting. This lends to the whole ide...
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