Novel: Great Expectations

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Novel Great Expectations

• Written By Charles Dickens

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D.A. Model High School Ph. IV

• Subject English Literature
• Novel Great Expectations
• Topic Pip, as main character
• Presented by
• Mrs. Farzana Hayat.
• Syndicate Leader Mrs. Shamim Dadi

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Introduction to author

• Charles Dickens (18331870) was a very popular
  writer who prospered in queen Victorias era.
  Many of his stories are about children, and the
  hard lives of poor people in those days.
• His writing style is florid and poetic, with a
  strong comic touch. His satires of British
  aristocratic snobbery are very popular.

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Notable Works

• Great Expectations,
• Bleak House,
• Little Dorrit,
• Hard Times,
• Our Mutual Friend,
• The Pickwick Papers,
• A Tale of Two Cities,
• David Copperfield,

• Sketches by Boz,
• The Old Curiosity Shop,
• Oliver Twist,
• Nicholas Nickleby,
• Barnaby Rudge,
• A Christmas Carol,
• Martin Chuzzlewit.

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Topic Character Sketch of Pip
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Aims and Objectives

1. Familiarize all the characters.
2. Elaborate Pips character.
3. His relations with other characters in the novel.

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Style Theme

• Written in first person.
• Uses victorian language grammer that is no
  longer in common use.
• The title Great Expectations refers to Pips
  expectations of living a gentlemanly life.
• Some of the major themes of the novel are crime
  and social class.

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Phillip Pirip (nick-named Pip)

• Innocent young child.
• An orphan.
• Elder sister brings him up.
• Humiliated treated badly by her.

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Mrs Joe Pips abusive older sister

• 20 years older than pip.
• Hot tempered
• Considers pip as burden.

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Joe Gargery Pips brother-in-law

• Fatherly figure for Pip.
• A blacksmith.
• Always kind to Pip.
• A true gentleman at heart.
• Wants Pip to be his apprentice

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Abel Magwitch Pips Benefactor

• He is a convict and escaped from prison, whom pip
  treats kindly.
• He turns out to be pips benefactor.
• He is sometimes called Provice.
• He is Mollys husband and Estellas Father.

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Miss Havisham

• Strange, reclusive woman.
• Was deserted by her fiancé on her wedding day.
• Pip considers her as his benefactor but she
  wanted to take revenge from men and targeted Pip,
  by using Estella as her tool.

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Estella

• Daughter of Magwitch Molly.
• Adopted by Miss Havisham.
• Brought up to be cruel revengeful.
• Does not respond to Pips love.
• In the end, after being widowed, she changes
  marries Pip.

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Recapitulate through discussion

• Evaluation at the end, group discussion will be
  encouraged
• Understand Pips character in relation to other
  characters in the novel evaluate their
  influences on him.
• Creativity guide the students to read other
  books written by Charles Dickens and plan out,
  devise compile a character sketch on their own.

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Further Reading

• Next session, come prepared to outline the
  features of Estellas character with me.
• Other resources The Novel, The internet.
• Thank you

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• Life changes people.
• Destiny prevails.