Jan 2, 2010

Great Expectations | Ideas for Reports and Papers

1. Dickens has been called the "novelist of childhood." How well does he portray the child's mind and imagination in the figure of Pip?

2. David Copperfield is the most autobiographical of Dickens's novels. Yet there is much autobiographical material in Great Expectations. Discuss how Dickens brings his own experiences as a child into the two novels.

3. Critics view Pip as complex because he undergoes development of character during the story. The Pip of eighteen is quite different from the Pip of eight. Describe the stages of his growth from childhood into...