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  1. Great Expectations Study Guide

    Key Facts about Great Expectations. Full Title:Great Expectations. When Written: 1860-1861. Where Written: Kent, England. When Published: Serialized from 1860-1861; published in 1861. Literary Period: Victorian Era. Genre: Coming-of-Age Novel ( Bildungsroman ) Setting: Kent and London, England. Climax: Pip discovers his patron is the convict.

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    26. Jaggers at home to Pip, Herbert, Drummle and Startop; Molly's wrists; Jaggers' interest in Drummle. 27. Biddy's letter; the Avenger; Joe visits Barnard's Inn; calls Pip "Sir"; Joe's "simple dignity". 28. Pip goes to the Blue Boar; the convicts; Pip reads in local paper that Pumblechook is his "patron".

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    Great Expectations: Alliance between atmosphere and plot (the convicts) make it more solid and satisfactory than anything else of Dickens known to me E.M. Forster, in his notebook, " 1925. ". Dickens did in fact know that Great Expectations was his most compactly perfect book George " Bern=ard Shaw, 1937. ".

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    Chapter I. M y father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip. I give Pirrip as my father's family name, on the authority of his tombstone and my sister,—Mrs. Joe Gargery, who married the blacksmith. As I never saw my father or my mother ...

  5. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

    Great Expectations Credits: An Anonymous Volunteer and David Widger Language: English: LoC Class: PR: Language and Literatures: English literature: Subject: Orphans -- Fiction Subject: England -- Fiction Subject: Revenge -- Fiction Subject: Bildungsromans Subject: Young men -- Fiction Subject:

  6. Great Expectations

    Great Expectations, novel by Charles Dickens, first published serially in All the Year Round in 1860-61 and issued in book form in 1861. The classic novel was one of its author's greatest critical and popular successes. It chronicles the coming of age of the orphan Pip while also addressing such issues as social class and human worth.

  7. Great Expectations Essays and Criticism

    Essays and criticism on Charles Dickens' Great Expectations - Essays and Criticism. ... Download the entire Great Expectations study guide as a printable PDF! Download Related Questions.

  8. Great Expectations Suggested Essay Topics

    1. Explain how guilt has affected Pip's life. 2. Define pun, and how it is used in these chapters. 3. Discuss the theme of right and wrong or good and evil. 4. How is the relationship between ...

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    are taken directly from the Great Expectations Student Book. These assessment opportunities comprise all the 'Getting it into writing' features at the end of each unit, together with the writing tasks in the 'Preparing for your exam' section of the book. You can add a note to each assignment for your students

  10. PDF Great Expectations Essay Prompts

    Great Expectations Essay Prompts Carefully consider the following prompts. Develop a thesis for one of them, and then write an essay in which you present a detailed, thoughtfully reasoned, well-supported argument in defense of your thesis. 1. Discuss the process of growth that Pip undergoes in the novel. What are his values and goals

  11. Great Expectations Critical Essays

    Critical Context. Great Expectations was published in weekly installments in All the Year Round, a British paper. The first installment appeared in December, 1860; the last came out in August ...

  12. Great Expectations Study Guide

    Study Guide for Great Expectations. Great Expectations is Dickens' thirteenth novel, completed in 1861. The GradeSaver study guide on Great Expectations contains a biography of Charles Dickens, literature essays, a complete e-text, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis. About Great Expectations

  13. PDF THE CRITICAL FORTUNES OF GREAT EXPECTATIONS*

    THE CRITICAL FORTUNES OF GREAT EXPECTATIONS*. RTUNES OFGREAT EXPECTATIONS*Richard DuttonT HE initial reception of Great Expectations has to be seen in the context of the trough into which Dickens's reputation had fallen in the late 1850s; this 'reputation', though ultimately based on the sales of Dickens's novels, was to a large extent shaped ...

  14. PDF GCSE 'Great Expectations'

    This guide is for Section B, 19th century prose: 'Great Expectations' (at William Ellis School) Each student will need to write one essay on the novel. It will be marked out of a total of 40. The highest mark band is a level 6, the lowest a level 1.

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    Several exam boards offer Great Expectations as a text for their literature exam. All the exam boards have the same Assessment Objectives [AOs], 1-4: AO1 Read, understand and respond to texts. Students should be able to: • maintain a critical style and develop an informed personal response • use textual references, including quotations, to ...

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    Hornback, Bert G. "Great Expectations": A Novel of Friendship . Boston: Twayne, 1987. Helpful introduction to the novel's historical context, guilt theme, point of view, and symbols and ...

  17. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

    Great Expectations. Although most American high school readers struggle a bit with nineteenth-century style, Dickens's insights into the human condition are universal and timeless. Great Expectations is probably his most widely taught novel in American high schools. The two endings of Great Expectations —Dickens's original ending, and the ...

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    You can use these tables to convert raw scores to scaled scores for the 2024 key stage 2 (KS2) national curriculum tests. A scaled score between 100 and 120 shows the pupil has met the expected ...