Throughout the centuries, both the system and the concept of prison have undergone many radical changes that eventually led to the formation of the prison as we know it now. In the 16th and 17th centuries, prison tended to be a place where criminals were kept in it while awaiting their punishment. It was a place, where criminals were held, rather than a means of punishment. In fact, criminals, at that time, were publically punished, rather than imprisoned, in the most torturous ways such as whipping, and slaughtering. However, in the 18th century, people in charge decided to put an end to these cruel methods of punishing. They came up with new methods of punishing instead of using torture in punishing criminals. In fact, the incarceration with hard labor was the new method of punishing criminals. Thus, the prison itself became a tool of punishment.…
In Charles Dicken’s Great Expectations Pip, the boy who gets rich and then lost it all in the end, everybody can relate too in some way. The first way is Pip like everyone else was a kid, at the beginning of the story Pip is a kid that is somewhere around 7-9 years old and gets older as the book continues. The second way is that Pip desires to better himself like everyone does. The final way is Pip desires to win the heart of someone he loves, but this someone hates…
Pip, the main character of Great Expectations, learns a great amount resulting from confusion in his life. His confusion is caused by his love for Estella, a beautiful and proper girl of the upper-class. Pip becomes intrigued by Estella the moment Ms. Havisham, Estella's guardian, has him over to visit. Ms. Havisham encourages and strengthens Pip's feeling for Estella by always reminding him of Estella's beauty and intelligence. As Pip grows older, his love for Estella never fades. Pip becomes confused when Estella makes him think that he may have a chance with her when in reality she doesn't love him at all. Estella is incapable of loving because Ms. Havisham taught her to hide her affection and love and to never open up to a man. Once Pip realizes that he will never…
5. Who is Miss Havisham? Why is Mrs, Joe delighted to send Pip to her house to play?…
After seeing Herbert in financial troubles, Pip “[seeks] advice from Wemmick’s expertise … and how [he can] best try with [his] resources to help Herbert [with his] income … and gradually [grant him] some small partnership … without [his] knowledge or suspicion” (320; ch. 37). Instead of using his wealth that he has accumulated towards enhancing his position in society to win over Estella, the love of his life, Pip seeks out Wemmick to generously assist Herbert without taking the credit for his success. Pip’s actions demonstrate his fierce loyalty, generosity, and caring for Herbert. Pip considers Herbert’s problems as his own and adds them to his ever-increasing, lengthy list of issues without a moment’s hesitation. Much later in the story, Pip sells all his earthly belongings and “[lives frugally and] happily with Herbert and his wife … [while maintaining] a constant correspondence with Biddy and Joe” (515; ch. 58). Pip’s entire lifetime of challenging choices and making the right decisions has led him to live a happy life with the people he loves instead of with meaningless, materialistic items. Pip’s choices to help Herbert and a few other people in their times of crisis forms everlasting bonds and his justification causes these people to repay Pip for his help when he needs it. Pip’s acts of generosity in the past leads him to a peaceful and accomplished life alongside the truly important people who have stuck with him since the…
Estella seems to follow in Miss Havishams’s footsteps, very snooty, snobby and stuck up or as pip says ‘proud’. She does not seem to show a morsel of compassion for pip and neither does Miss Havisham. This is because…
2. Briefly describe the convict. What evidence is there that the convict has "human" qualities and is not merely a criminal? The convict is a fearful man all in coarse gray, with a great iron on his leg, no hat, with broken shoes, and had an old rag tied around his head. The evidence that supports that the convict has human qualities is he somewhat shows compassion when seeing Pip’s dead parents so he does not rob him he just scares Pip and asks him to do a favor.…
In the captivating novel written by Charles Dickens, Pip is paralyzed by the feeling of love at first sight. As quickly as he falls in love with Estella, even quicker is she removed from his life. He knew from the moment he laid eyes on her in Miss Havisham’s palace, that he would be forever enchanted by her beauty and overwhelmed with undying love for her:…
It is also an important factor to many elements in Great Expectations, such as Pip’s story and character, Estella’s personality and future relationship with Pip, and so on. She does not have the best relationship with men, which stemmed from the man who she was supposed to marry but quickly he took off on their wedding money once he got a hold of her money, and this tore her apart. Based on her experiences, she thought it would be a good idea to raise her adopted daughter, Estella, in seclusion and to have a cold heart that cannot love. She was soon proved wrong, once Estella grew up and became aware of how Miss Havisham was treating her all these years. She also thought it was a good idea to trick Pip into thinking that she was his benefact, making him believe that she plans on having him marry Estella. But, again, was proved wrong, once Pip found out about about her plans. And they were anything but forgiving to Miss Havisham when they found out about what she’s been doing to them for all those years. She feels horrible and guilty for what she’s done, tries to get Pip to forgive her, and is engulfed in flames by a nearby lit fire. She later dies without being able to really redeem herself, like Lady Macbeth. The amount of stress Miss Havisham and Lady Macbeth had to deal with throughout, led them to do a number of things that they immediately…
In stave 3 Dickens introduces two children called Ignorance and Want who are described as: ‘wretched, abject, frightful, hideous, miserable.’ This list of negative adjectives makes the reader empathise with the young children as they are innocent and haven’t chosen to live this saddening life. Dickens also used the adjectives scowling, wolfish’ to describe the children which is describing them as wolves and monsters, indicating that they have been neglected to live like savages. Poor people, throughout Dickens’ time, were expected to live a life of crime which also emphasises Dickens imagery of “savages.”…
Pip’s Parents have passed resulting in Pip having to take refuge with his sister and brother in law, Pip lives an ordinary yet complicated life there until his uncle Pumblechook shows him to Miss Havisham who is an awfully strange woman with a beautiful adopted daughter named Estella. Miss Havisham is the richest woman and can often show many prejudices, raising Estella in this environment. Pip begins to live with them and falls in love with Estella who is of high socio-economic status and rejects Pip and mocks him. Miss Havisham also doesn’t accept his feelings and only supports him to become a blacksmith with his brother in law Mr Joe. Soon later…
When Estella and Pip initially meet, Estella blatantly displays her sense of superiority. " Though she called me 'boy' so often, and with a carelessness that was far from complimentary, she was of about my own age. She seemed much older than I... she was as scornful of me as if she had been one-and-twenty, and a queen" (58). It seems as though Estella's privileged background gave her prerogative to be haughty.…
Life in prison is difficult to understand for those who have not experienced this kind of life. This paper will discuss the how my understanding of prison life has changed since reading the assigned materials.…
Miss Havisham as shown encourages Estella to entrap Pip and break his heart. One may not exactly think that there is a “trap” if Havisham adopts someone and one thing is to break hearts. The trap is then hidden and would take someone really smart to see it right away. In this case then Ms. Havisham wants Pip to love Estella so a reader could think she feels bad but really it could be so there could be a further act of cruelty committed. "Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces–and as it gets older and stronger–it will tear deeper–love her, love her, love her!" What this looks like is that it is a sketchy thing she’d like Pip to do and one could think that this is another act of cruelty. Overall what can be made from this is that one honestly does not have the right to treat someone like how Ms. Havisham did. Just because someone has hurt you doesn’t mean you get to treat them that way. Especially setting them up to someone else to be broken. You would never have someone assist you it is just vile, nasty, disgusting. It does just show that this type person has no breaks of any kind. No moral breaks whatsoever. This behavior could inflict dire consequences on the person in which is committing acts like these. Worst consequence is death. This shows that when you have fire going and are too close one can experience severe pain. Karma still exists no matter where at even in literature one will see it. Pip just could not save her in good…
It is well-known that with the stage-performance of Galsworthy's Justice exhibiting the shabby and inhuman treatment meted out to the convicts in prison, there followed a stir among the people of England, and the result was that the authorities concerned could not remain passive, and therefore, several important reformations in jail were effected. When one goes to read Great Expectations, one wonders at Dickens's role as Galsworthy's predecessor in criticizing the prevailing system in jail administration. In fact, Dickens is not mere an entertainer. He is a sound and sincere social…