Who or what do you think has the Most influence on Pip's development and for what reasons.
"Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens Who or what do you think has the most influence on Pip's development and for what reasons? Who or what do you think has the Most influence on Pip's development and for what reasons. "Great Expectations" is the story of Phillip Pirrip, known as Pip. He is an orphan living with his authoritarian sister Mrs Joe Gargery and her illiterate husband Joe Gargery. They are a working class family in the Victorian era. Joe Gargery is the village blacksmith in their village on the marshes. Pip encounters an escaped convict on the marshes and brings him wittles and a file stolen from his own house. This convict is Abel Magwitch. One day Pip receives a peculiar request from Miss Havisham, an elderly upper class woman to come and "play" at her house. Her house is old and large compared to Pip's house at the forge. At Miss Havisham's house, he meets an attractive young lady called Estella. He is infatuated with her throughout the novel. He is suddenly informed that he has "Great expectations" and will be sent to London to be educated and turned into gentleman. Here he meets Jaggers a lawyer who takes care of all Pip's financial needs and he is sent to live with Herbert Pocket the son of Mathew Pocket who teaches him table manners and other ways to behave if you are to be an upper class gentleman. This is all to be paid for by a mystery benefactor
Who or what is responsible for Scrooge's change of character in 'A Christmas Carol'?
Transfer-Encoding: chunked Who or what is responsible for Scrooge's change of character in 'A Christmas Carol'? ‘A Christmas carol’ written by the Unitarian and well respected Charles Dickens narrates the novella of the dark and exploitative nature of man whom embodies the story's main character, Ebenezer Scrooge, renowned as a cantankerous and callous Industrialist of the Victorian era. He exercises his parsimonious, gluttonous ways on Christmas Eve and intentionally refuses Christmas festivity. Indeed, A Christmas Carol is a severe and scathing diatribe on the social conditions of the time and the nature of man that exploits those conditions. Dickens therefore employs the four ghosts as a necessary measure to redeem the compassionate full humanity, and restore harmony to society. Christmas is seen as the best season to revolve this revolution, as it is the time Christ was born, which is symbolic of new life, and therefore a restoration or ‘rebirth’ of Scrooge. This is done over a series of ghosts, each fundamental to reconnecting the time synapses of Scrooge’s life, and therefore allowing his redemption. Dickens uses onomatopoeia to describe Marley's dramatic entrance, "The cellar-door flew open with a booming sound." This experience with Jacob Marley is full of suspense and tension and the use of the word "flew" indicates that the involvement of Marley is
The Signalman
Chris Burford 27-10-01 Comparisons In the landlady after Billy has left the train station he does not have any verbal contact with any other characters this really highlights the fact that he is alone in an area he doesn't know, therefore generating emotions of uncertainty, gullibility and isolation. We benefit from this because we don't feel thrown in at the deep end. The mood is quiet and the area appears as being quite dead; we are given this impression because of the way the buildings are described. We can also assume that it is dark as we are told that it is late. The Signalman starts with immediate speech " halloa below there" and then launches into a stream of description relative to the signal man himself and the basic surroundings " his figure was foreshortened and shadowed as I made my way into the dark trench" The signalman is considered to be rather peculiar "he could not have doubted from which quarter the voice came" and he still looks around and down the line as if he were expecting it to here it from somewhere else. We are also given an impression of a darkness and gloom by the words such as shadowed, deep, trench, and angry sunset. From the first few words we can almost picture a grave like setting and with the last two " angry sunset" we can imagine that the place has a dark but red glow that indicates the cutting could perhaps be a
The Signalman
Answer the following question and up-load your answer. How does the writer of 'The Signalman' create a feeling of impending doom throughout the story? Think about: * Language * Structure Answer:- The writer has used many techniques to create a feeling of impending doom throughout the story mainly through repetition, metaphors, similes as well as short sentences. The writer says that the narrator finds there is something wrong with the signalman; "something remarkable in his manner of doing so". As when the narrator called on him, instead of looking directly at the narrator he looks at the tunnel to which the narrator finds something wrong with the signalman. This gives the reader a clue that this is a horror story as the first paragraph itself describes that there is something wrong with the main character; the signalman (due to the title "The Signalman"). The writer uses personification to describe the sunset at the day the narrator met the signalman as "an angry sunset" which might give the readers an idea to show the arrival of doom in the latter part of the story. This could also be done to create the set up for the horrific part of the story. The writer describes the vibration on the surface when the train passed by through the tunnel as "vague vibration" shows that this was different kind of vibration and that of an usual and an unclear one. This could also
The Signalman
The Signalman In the following essay I will be looking at the way that Charles Dickens creates suspense in the Signalman. The Signalman is a short, gothic story written by Charles Dickens; in it Dickens shows a vast amount of gothic conventions. The story is set in a deep railway cutting; this fits to gothic conventions in that most of the gothic stories are set in dark, damp and lonely places, however most are set in castles or ruins of some kind. Throughout the story Dickens emphasizes how lonely it is in that place and eerie, this again fits with gothic conventions as all gothic stories have some link to eerie and supernatural things. The story opens with the narrator shouting down to the signalman on the tracks below him. "Hello below down there" was the words he used; this spooked the signalman as the spectre, which will be explained later, had said the exact same words to him on several occasions. When the to men meet Dickens intentionally makes us think that one or both of them might be a ghost. He does this by making the narrator first think that the signalman is a bit weird and might be a ghost but then he makes it clear that the signalman is afraid of the narrator making us think that maybe he is a ghost but it is revealed that in fact neither of them are ghosts. The signalman's reaction to the narrator calling down makes the reader think that something is
The Signalman
The Signalman In this essay I am going to explore how Charles Dickens creates the appropriate atmosphere in the short ghost story The Signalman. The story is set in the 1860's in a railroad cutting, this was around the time that trains were coming into use. The story is about a train Signalman, who gets a visit from a man. The man visits the Signalman for a second time and is told that he is troubled by a ghost. On his third visit to the Signalman he finds that he has been killed by a train. The story is started with the line, "HALLOW! Below there!" This is direct speech. From this line we do not know who is calling or whom they are calling to, this makes the reader ask questions about the story and what is going to happen next. We do know from this line that someone is up high calling down. Later in this paragraph we are told more about where they are, "but instead of looking up to were I stood on top of a steep cutting nearly over his head, he turned himself and looked down the Line." The Narrator finds this behaviour strange. As he says, "One would have thought considering the nature of the ground that he could have not doubted what quarter the voice came from." Throughout the story we are not told the names of the characters. The Signalman is refereed to as the Signalman. The story is written in first person so the Narrator refers to himself as 'I,' this makes the
The Signalman.
The Signalman. By Ryan Curtis The signalman is a supernatural story set in the 19th century. It is written by Charles Dickens. The story stars off with the narrator walking through fields, he then hears a train and so he walks towards where the sound is coming from. The narrator comes to a viaduct where he shouts, "halloa down there", waving his arm in front of his face at a man standing below. The narrator finds a path down into the viaduct and goes over to the signalman. The signalman asks the narrator if he has ever stood in the mouth of the tunnel because he saw a figure there sometime before waving his hands in front of his face just as the narrator had done. The two men get to know each other really well and the signalman tells the narrator of the two accidents that have happened on the railway line. Firstly there was a crash in the tunnel involving a head on collision and the second incident was a woman who fell off a train. The signalman also tells the narrator that every time there has been an accident he has seen a ghostly figure standing by the warning lantern that is situated at the mouth of the tunnel, telling him that there was going to be an accident. The man did not know how to stop any of these tragic happenings and he did not know when they were going to happen. The day before the narrator had come to viaduct the signalman had seen the figure waving its
What Influences Shape Young Pip's Character in "Great Expectations"
Navdeep Sahota English Coursework What Influences Shape Young Pip's Character in "Great Expectations" Great Expectations is the story of Philip Pirrip, an orphaned child living with his sister and brother-in-law. Pip faces many different situations and deals with more than a child today. We see many different signs to give us a clue upon Pip's mind and the way he thinks. The circumstances and people he has encountered have made him the person he pans out to be towards the end of the book. Pip's parents died when he was young along with five of his siblings. At the beginning of the book Pip, aged seven, tells us that "the shape of the letters on my father's, gave me an odd idea he was a square, stout, dark man, with curly black hair." He is referring to his father's tombstone and even though Pip has never seen him he imagines what he looked like by the shaping of the letters on the tombstone. This shows Pip has a very strong imagination. He also must visit the cemetery often and wonder what life would be like with his deceased family. Pip, unlike the majority of orphans at the time, still had some family: his brother-in-law and sister, Mr and Mrs Joe Gargery. Pip feels happy with his guardians as he still has someone and I think he is grateful, as he knows other orphans would be having very hard
What is the Significance of Chapter One of 'Great Expectations' in Relation to the Novel as a Whole?
What is the Significance of Chapter One of 'Great Expectations' in Relation to the Novel as a Whole? 'Great Expectations' is a novel written by Charles Dickens and is considered to be one of his best stories. The plot follows a young boy named Phillip Pirrip or 'Pip' and it focuses on his growth as he matures from a young boy into a fully grown man. He had always had great expectations of himself, wishing to become someone of high social class - as this was set and written in the Victorian era when social class was a huge factor of society - and when he ends up visiting an eccentric woman called Miss Haversham he meets a beautiful young girl called Estella who becomes more important later on. After he discovers that he has a secret benefactor who begins to fund his life. Pip assumes that this benefactor is Miss Haversham but the truth is that it is a criminal, who Pip helped as a child, called Magwitch and when Pip discovers this at the age of 23 he despises the idea that his success is due to a criminal's money. Pip became dependant on the money causing himself to fall into dabts and so Pip loses his fortune and ends up, socially, where he started. From chapter one you get the impression that Pip is vulnerable. From the first three lines the reader becomes familiar with Pip as it is an introduction in the first person narrative and it gives background information on his
