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        <title><![CDATA["In what way have Pip, Estella, and Miss Havisham been instructed?" ...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA["In what way have Pip, Estella, and Miss Havisham been instructed?"  Pip, Estelle, Miss Havisham have all been instructed in some of the finest educational institutions. Pip and Estelle, and presumably Miss Havisham as well, have been instructed by good hearted and right minded counselors and advisers. Yet, as Estelle says, it is suffering that teaches the strongest lessons, which are the lessons that dictate choices in life and the decisions...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 2 Dec 2009 14:41:51 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Jaggers, the most powerful criminal lawyer in London, was a man with a...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Jaggers, the most powerful criminal lawyer in London, was a man with a caring heart that was buried beneath the rusty pistol on his desk and the sword in a dusty scabbard laying out near it. His emotions were under lock and key and guarded by his heavy watch chain.
At work, he sat in a violently prickly horsehair chair and his clients, it seemed to Pip, were afraid of him (even though they were criminal) as was evidenced by the smudging of...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 2 Dec 2009 14:32:30 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The answer to this question lies in the gothic setting of both the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The answer to this question lies in the gothic setting of both the graveyard scene (a typical gothic ingredient) and also Satis House.
In Chapter 1, sympathy is evoked with the poignant picture of Pip weeping over the graves of his dead family, clearly endearing him to the reader. Also, the landscape is described as the "dark flat wilderness beyond the churchyard". Suddenly, a stranger pops up from behind a tombstone, as we can only imagine...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[It is actually in Chapter 18 that Pip finds out about his "Great...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It is actually in Chapter 18 that Pip finds out about his "Great Expectations" from Jaggers, who says that Pip "will come into a handsome property" and also that he will :

be immeidately removed from his present sphere of life and from this place, and be brought up as a gentleman - in a word, as a young fellow of great expectations.

It is important to note Pip's reaction to this news; he is clearly delighted and feels that he is now able to...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 2 Dec 2009 08:07:37 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Although after Pip became wealthy Pumblechook was very nice and...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Although after Pip became wealthy Pumblechook was very nice and accomodating to Pip, he is not sincere.  He is just like the kid at school who sucks up to the rich kids in the hopes of being popular and getting to play with really cool toys as a result of it.  Pumblechook is entirely insincere in his fond affections for Pip after Pip achieved his fortune.  We know this because before the fortune landed in Pip's lap, Pumblechook lost no...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:23:02 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In "Great Expectations" why does Pumblechook tell Pip that his fortune...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In "Great Expectations" why does Pumblechook tell Pip that his fortune is "well-deserved"? Give evidence to support the idea that he is insincere.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:33:52 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Describe Jagger's work and home life.
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        <description><![CDATA[Describe Jagger's work and home life.
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        <pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:58:40 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA["Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens is a bildungsroman that is...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA["Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens is a bildungsroman that is divided into three important stages of the life of Pip, the main character.  As an ingenuous boy, Pip lives with his shrewish sister whom he refers to as "Mrs. Joe," a term that indicates no fondness between them.  On the other hand, Joe, a blacksmith is both parent and friend to Pip, and a loving relationship exists between them.  Yet, Pip's contentment with this...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:57:04 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In Great Expectations, while Miss Havisham has perpetuated her hatred...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In Great Expectations, while Miss Havisham has perpetuated her hatred for men and desire to avenge herself upon them by turning Estella into a heartless woman, the old gentlewoman is not without redemption.  And, it is this change of heart in Miss Havisham which makes her all the more tragic.  For, while she has lived her youth in being deluded by Compeyson, the villain whom she believed a gentleman that loved her, she also has lived her...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:19:33 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What are Pip's expectations in stage 1, stage 2, and stage 3?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What are Pip's expectations in stage 1, stage 2, and stage 3?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:16:54 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, the character of Miss Havisham...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, the character of Miss Havisham is much like her name suggests- she is a sham. Her money and status are her life extension because she is dead inside. The stopped clocks throughout Satis House mark her exact time of death. The clocks that are kept from functioning reflect how Miss Havisham has allowed for the decay of her own health and well being.
She is a woman scorned and feels the jilting of her...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:01:08 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is Miss Havisham's defintion of love and does it apply to Pip's...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is Miss Havisham's defintion of love and does it apply to Pip's relationship with Joe or Estella?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:08:06 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Describe Miss Havisham in Great Expectations. What is known about her...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Describe Miss Havisham in Great Expectations. What is known about her and how does that relate or influence her character?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:50:11 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Guilt does have a role to play throughout many different parts of the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Guilt does have a role to play throughout many different parts of the book.  After Pip first helps the convict Magwich by bringing him food and supplies, the next weeks are spent wracked with guilt; he is sure that someone will find out, and that Joe especially will find fault in him for helping a prisoner.  Guilt makes Pip jump at small noises, quail in fear when news comes, and it even interrupts his sleep.  Eventually, his guilt over...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:49:51 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What role does guilt play in Great Expectations?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What role does guilt play in Great Expectations?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:38:54 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[After meeting Miss Havisham and Estella, Pip's expectations grew quite a...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[After meeting Miss Havisham and Estella, Pip's expectations grew quite a bit; before knowing them, he was content to live his life with Joe at the forge, and in becoming a blacksmith.  He knew no other life, and was contented.  However, Estella made him ashamed of his status in life, of his dirty hands and impoverished situation.  For the first time, he wanted to have money, and to be a gentleman.  When he receives a large fortune from a...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:10:35 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The man that Pip meets in the churchyard is someone who will...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The man that Pip meets in the churchyard is someone who will significantly change Pip's life; the meeting itself is intense and anxious.  He is an escaped convict who had managed to elude the authorities on the convict boat that was harbored near Pip's town.  These boats transported criminals from one place to another, and the convict had escaped and swam to shore.
Dickens describes the convict in great detail--one of the strengths that...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:43:48 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Pip's first reaction to the convict is one of fear. In Ch.1 when...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Pip's first reaction to the convict is one of fear. In Ch.1 when Magwitch first meets Pip, Pip is scared out of his wits and he remarks, "O! Don't cut my throat, sir," I pleaded in terror. "Pray don't do it, sir."
However, after he has got over his initial fears he begins to sympathize with him. When Magwitch is hunted down as an animal  and finally arrested by the army in Ch.5, Pip and Joe are the only characters who sympathize with him....]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:21:12 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In the beginning what is the bond between Pip and the convict?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In the beginning what is the bond between Pip and the convict?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:46:25 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Pip's emotional state is to feel guilty, confused, terrified but also...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Pip's emotional state is to feel guilty, confused, terrified but also kind and sympathetic towards the convict whom he fears. The physical environment of a graveyard is perfect for this. For a start the graveyard is in a marshy area - in London these areas were always wet, swampy and dangerous. They often give off a foul mist or fog which serves two purposes - first to emphasise Pip's confusion and second to create fear, tension, and suspense...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:59:52 PST</pubDate>
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