shirley valentine
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Great Expectations The novel "Great Expectations" was written by Charles Dickens in the 1870's. "Great Expectations" is about a boy called pip who is an orphan living in working class conditions in Victorian times and is very happy until he visits the dreaded satis house and meets Miss.Havisham and falls in love with Estella and realises how insignificant he is compared to the rich finally making bad choices in life and regretting them later on in his life. In this essay I will discuss how the themes of class, self-development, education, family and friends are developed through pip's visit to satis house. This novel is classified as a Bildungsroman as it deals with characteristics such as Auto-biography's, Ancestry, and Education, Desire, Love and Social conditions. This novel was written to display Dickens's attitudes towards the working class. Dickens' campaigned to help the working class so that they could rise in social...

