Great Expectations Research Papers - Academia.edu (original) (raw)

This book is a compilation of articles written by academicians residing in India and abroad, on some major texts which are studied in the course of undergraduate syllabi of English studies. The articles are on: Macbeth, Twelfth Night, The Jew of Malta, Look Back in Anger, Pride and Prejudice, Great Expectations, The Lagoon, The Fly, The Ox, Shooting an Elephant and Araby. Although the book is meant for students of undergraduate levels, researchers would also be benefitted from some of the topics of the articles.
Click on the link below to go the page, scroll below to choose any of the options listed for making a purchase:
https://www.educreation.in/store/through-the-literary-glass-nilanko-mallik.html

- by
- •
- Macbeth, Twelfth Night, Great Expectations, Pride and Prejudice

The aim of this study is to determine and evaluate the expectations of residents regar-ding the impacts of tourism. The expecta-tions of the residents are handled through the Kano Model and the Analytic Hierarchy Process. No other similar study evaluating the expectations of residents regarding the impacts of tourism has been carried out. When the findings are evaluated, it can be seen that the expectations of residents gene-rally fall under economic dimensions. Ex-pectations are ranked according to their im-portance. It provides data that can provide input to the decision-making mechanisms of destination management organizations. It can pave the way for plan policies and strategies that manage the perceptions and attitudes of the residents in order to realize more successful tourism activities.

In Mister Pip (2006), New Zealander writer Lloyd Jones transfers Charles Dickens' Great Expectations to Papua New Guinea. Through a skilful play of metanarrative cross-references, Jones gives lifeblood back to the Victorian text while creating a new artistic work in which the 19th century enters into a dialogue with contemporary times o ering its reader a modern 'female' Bildungsroman. This paper explores how Great Expectations turns out to be instrumental for the growth of Matilda, Jones's main character, and for the development of the plot in a way that invites us to reflect on the imaginative power of literature and the unpredictable nature of its consequences in the world outside literary fiction.

The concept of bildungsroman is studied in the novels Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt by integrating the experiences of the protagonists. Their character growths follow a similar arc as they start off as naive young boys and evolve into well experienced men. The struggles they face from a young age, and the way they deal with the problems of life, the choices they make and the beliefs they hold are examined. The characters they come across and the role they play in the development of the lives of the protagonists are also compared and contrasted.

- by Marie Aruna
- •
- Education, Bildungsroman, Great Expectations, The Goldfinch

The early 1860s saw a new mechanism of social discipline: the volunteer militia movement. Begun in response to an 1858 assassination attempt against Napoleon III that originated in London, volunteer corps were created as a form of home protection against invasion due to an increased tension between France and Britain. Proponents of character such as Arnold and Smiles endorsed the movement because, as military historian Ian F.W. Beckett writes, “drill, discipline, and healthy exercise were held to promote habits of order, obedience, cleanliness, and punctuality as well as social harmony.” Advocates claimed the repetitive habits of volunteer training inoculated character against moral failure, promoted social discipline, and produced moral distinction within the population. Although the composition of the corps changed over time, its members were initially drawn from the professional class. Gregory Anderson notes that the corps provided clerks with status compensation by allowing them to interact socially with their employers. In this presentation, I examine how Great Expectations engages with this form of social discipline in its on character and emotion, its uses of narrative irony, and its representations of soldiers. I connect the novel’s style and view of character to essays in All the Year Round about the volunteer movement that appeared from 1860-1, focusing on their insistence that volunteers can be effective soldiers without becoming soldiers as such. The persistent use of irony that pervades these first-person essays indicates a need to create narrative distance from one’s experience of a character-shaping discipline reflected in Dickens’s novel.
NOTE: Portions of this presentation appear in chapter five of Gooch, Joshua, Dickensian Affects: Charles Dickens and Feelings of Precarity, Routledge, 2020.

- by Eric Michael Moberg
- •
- Great Expectations, ESTELLA, Pip

Great expectations (Charles Dickens 1861) Analysis

This article maintains that the revised ending of Great Expectations moves "away from all such things as they conventionally go" even more than the original one in that, by refusing to do away with Pip's desire for Estella, it strains the novel's relationship to the conventions of its genre. In an attempt to provide a corrective to critical stances that often ignore the novel's romantic plot, the article scrutinizes the role that Estella and Miss Havisham play on Pip's Bildung, particularly on his desire to become a gentleman. Then, by turning to René Girard's model of triangular desire, it argues that whereas Magwitch's criminal stain constitutes a destabilization of the values of the Bildungsroman, in particular that of mobility, it is ultimately Miss Havisham's aberrant authorship of Pip's desires that most deeply unsettles the novel's genetic composition. The article will conclude by contending that the revised ending is consistent with the novel's treatment of authorship and is therefore no less desirable than the original ending.

Great Expectations is considered one of the most outstanding works of Charles Dickens. The novel takes place in Victorian era Britain and it is, therefore functions as a medium to mirror the social dynamics of this respected era including class-divided social hierarchy, social mobility, and the concept of morality which manifest themselves more explicitly with the effects of the industrial revolution. Through its main character and protagonist Pip, the reader witnesses the course towards the ‘myth’ of upward mobility. In this regard, the present paper aims to foreground the dynamics of Victorian society that are reflected in the novel.

- by Zeynep Hazal Yıldız
- •
- Victorian Literature, Victorian novel, Social Mobility, Charles Dickens
- by Reem Haqqi
- •
- Stylistics, Applied Corpus Linguistics, Metaphors, Charles Dickens

In a letter to John Forster written in April 1861, Dickens described “the general turn and tone of the working out and winding up” of Great Expectations as “away from all such things as they conventionally go” (Letters 9: 403). Though he remained unclear as to his meaning, Dickens was in all probability alluding to the novel’s decidedly unmatrimonial ending, which, as is well known, he was eventually convinced to rewrite. The rest is history, and Dickens’s decision resulted in a critical controversy that echoes to this day. For most scholars, the revised ending is a “happy” one – and less satisfactory – presumably because it advances the promise of a reunion between Pip and Estella. Contra this interpretation, I maintain that the revised ending moves “away from all such things as they conventionally go” even more than the original one in that, by refusing to do away with Pip’s desire for Estella, it strains the novel’s relationship to the conventions of its genre. For while Great Expectations is often cited as one of the most representative Bildungsromane, the novel’s structure and its ending show generic tensions worth exploring. In Unbecoming Women (1993), Susan Fraiman identifies two imperatives of the Bildungsroman: mobility and individuality (126). Through its investment in Pip’s moral and emotional growth, Great Expectations prioritizes these two imperatives while simultaneously questioning the possibility of their existence. It is not difficult to understand, for instance, how Pip’s fantasies of social mobility become tainted with the criminal through the revelation of the truth behind his expectations. Less has been said, nevertheless, about the novel’s stance vis-à-vis the imperative of individuality, especially as informed by Pip’s obsession with Estella. Thus, this article will proceed in a twofold manner. First, in an attempt to provide a corrective to critical stances that often ignore the novel’s romantic plot,1 it will scrutinize the role

This research project studies Pip's ego fluctuations in Charles Dickens's Great Expectations. Freud's division of the human psyche into id, ego and superego is appropriate for the analysis of the rise and fall of the hero in his pursuit to attain gentlemanhood. Four main questions have been addressed: First, what makes up Pip's id? Second, what are the main components of his superego? Third, does Pip's ego succeed or fail in striking a balance between his id and superego? In what ways does it fail? And fourth, how does Pip's ego eventually succeed in striking a balance between his id and superego? The study finds out that Pip's id is demonstrated through his fascination with high-class lifestyle and relinquishment of common life. It shows that his superego is constructed from the hurdles that prevent him from pursuing gentlemanhood, namely past common life restraints and present high class deficiencies. It also demonstrates how Pip's faulty ego comes as a result of his frustration at high class lifestyles and resentment of his old common life. The study eventually reveals that two important factors contribute to the success of Pip's ego: His reconciliation with the past and appreciation of the present in order to have more realistic expectations of the future.

- by Arab World English Journal (AWEJ)
- •
- Charles Dickens, Oscillations, ID, Ego

- by IERJ Journal
- •
- Bildungsroman, Great Expectations, The Goldfinch, development novels
- by Walid M Rihane
- •
- Classics, English Literature, Victorian Literature, Charles Dickens

This paper discusses the function of masquerade in five popular Victorian Sensation novels (Great Expectations, Lady Audley's Secret, East Lynne, The Woman in White, and The Moonstone), as well as its relationship to Victorian-era... more

- by Monika Podraza
- •
- Great Expectations, Pip and Estella, Miss Havisham
- by Andre Gerard
- •
- Virginia Woolf, Intertextuality, Charles Dickens, Mrs Dalloway
- by Samantak Das
- •
- Literature And Science, Darwinism, Charles Dickens, Charles Darwin

As a novel that is fundamentally about social mobility, personal integrity, "identity formation" (Hakala 14), even identity as commodity (Grass), the question of how characters are made to speak in Dickens's Great Expectations is both thematic and literary. This essay looks at the ficto-linguistics of the novel by first discussing Victorian attitudes towards non-standard dialects as authentic or inauthentic, and then investigating the speech of Joe Gargery, Abel Magwitch, Mr Pumblechook and the protagonist/narrator Pip. The issue of narrative authenticity and, ultimately of the authenticity of the implied author is raised in the conclusion.

- by Valentina Chiesa
- •
- Umberto Eco, Charles Dickens, Rewriting, Great Expectations
- by Ellen Cavanaugh
- •
- Spirituality, Rosicrucianism, Alchemy (Literature), Intercultural Philosophy
- by Aleksandar Stevic
- •
- Victorian Literature, Charles Dickens, Bildungsroman, Great Expectations

Though critics have frequently referred to John Irving as a “contemporary Dickens”, a key point of contact between these two authors has remained unexplored—the role of theatre in their work. Few novelists have engaged with theatrical performance in as many books as Irving, and this article argues that a close consideration of that engagement vis-à-vis Dickens’s own fictional renderings of theatre can open new understandings of his novels’ democratizing thrusts. Focusing on Irving’s A Prayer for Owen Meany, and drawing on David Kurnick’s recent analyses of theatre-novel relationships, the article develops a concept of “theatrical extraneity”, gesturing to the anamorphic ways in which, in Irving and in Dickens, what is properly, conventionally, and semiotically extraneous to theatrical representation is—both comically and transformatively—brought into the spotlight.

- by Graham Wolfe
- •
- Charles Dickens, John Irving, Great Expectations, Nicholas Nickleby
- by John Thieme
- •
- New Zealand Literature, Pacific Island Studies, Intertextuality, Papua New Guinea
- by David Kurnick
- •
- English Literature, Victorian Literature, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
- by Allen MacDuffie
- •
- Environmental Studies, Victorian Literature, Ecocriticism, Charles Dickens
- by Chloe S J Lam
- •
- Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, Jane Eyre, Great Expectations

A discussion of two adaptations of Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations."

- by Jeffrey Sconce
- •
- British Literature, Film Studies, Television Studies, Animation
- by Lucy Frost
- •
- Great Expectations
- by Tvrtko Samardzija
- •
- Victorian Literature, Victorian novel, Jane Eyre, Great Expectations

This book examines a rich group of novels, each of which was published as an “answer” to Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. After an introductory section offering an overview on the reception and the adaptations of this classic – from the first theatrical transpositions to the most recent fanfictions and crossovers – the research deals with the key issues regarding the debate around intertextuality. Then, before going on to analyze each novel, it focuses on the definition of rewriting and the methodological approach to its study.
The book asserts that the large number of rewrites and adaptations testifies some of the responses produced by the readers of this Dickensian classic. But the rewritten versions of Great Expectations achieve a different thematic effect than that of the Dickensian original: authors such as Alanna Knight, Michael Noonan, and Sue Roe focus on secondary characters, H. G. Wells unmasks the hypocrisy and false values of the English bourgeoisie, hidden behind Pip’s illusory social climbing, Peter Carey and Lloyd Jones question the canonical tradition from the perspective of Great Britain’s former colonies.
The constant theoretical reflection on the act of rewriting also allows readers to examine the processes through which these works in the second degree shed new light on the semantic potential of the Dickensian text and capture unexpressed voices, confirming the novel’s vitality and its ability to speak to a contemporary audience.

A review of Radio 4's comedy spoof of Charles Dickens's most famous novels.

- by Laurence Raw
- •
- BBC Radio Drama, Parody, Charles Dickens, Spoofs
- by Tuğçe Özdinç
- •
- Movies, Review, Essay, film Reviews

I delivered three guest lectures on Dickens's 'Great Expectations' for a second-year undergraduate course. These lectures were delivered on April 30, May 7, and May 14, 2013. Content covered included the Bildungsroman, fairytale, social mobility, the use of periodical installments, the two endings, doubling, crime, symbolism, narratorial strategies, and the depiction of the child.

- by Heidi Logan
- •
- Victorian novel, Charles Dickens, Bildungsroman, Sensation Novels
- by C.M. Griffiths
- •
- English Literature, Literature, Shakespeare, Bakhtin
- by Holly Kelsall
- •
- Director, Film Adaptation, Auteur Theory, Film and Media Studies

Description The concept of security is often simplified and misunderstood in postconflict societies-those in which'predominately male combatants have ceased to engage in" official" war. During post-war transition,... more

- by Amy Maguire
- •
- Great Expectations

Food is a leitmotiv in Dickens’s novels, and in Great Expectations it appears to be the objective correlative of the social rank and the moral stance of the characters. This is especially evident in the verbal and visual representation of Miss Havisham’s decaying banquet: by letting food putrefy, Miss Havisham reduces her own body as mere flesh to feast upon, and it is only by nourishing herself on other bodies that she can satiate her appetites. After exploring how Dickens relates the verbal and visual representation of food to the depiction of his characters’ emotionality, this essay focuses on Miss Havisham’s banquet and its literary ‘afterlife’ in James Joyce’s “The Dead”.

- by Marco Canani
- •
- Comparative Literature, Film Studies, James Joyce, Victorian Literature

Dickens's call for improvement pervades Great Expectations, a novel that uses Pip's journey into adulthood to create a story equal parts bildungsroman and examination of class stagnation. Dickens highlights deficits in London's human condition, questioning what, if anything, can be done to improve it. A frequent critic of Victorian educational systems, Dickens returns to this theme by creating and shattering Pip's 'expectations' to highlight what he deems false forms of improvement. Pip laments that it is "a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home," yet his transformation into a scholar reshapes him as mechanical and unsympathetic; he distances himself from Joe and his lowly family (Dickens 1999, 89). Hence, Dickens reveals his non-example of progress while veiling his definition of personal and societal improvement. By focusing on Pip's transition from "a common laboring-boy" into an "oncommon scholar," Dickens's call for the improvement of London's human condition through his demand for educational reform appears. However, he pushes beyond this in Great Expectations. The changes Dickens defines are physical, visceral interactions in moments of hardship, suffering, and most notably, at the time of one's death. London's 'improvement' relies on a return to imaginative and sympathetic educators and students alike.

- by Carolyn Gonzalez
- •
- British Literature, Education, Victorian Studies, Victorian Literature
- by Nehal Bhuta
- •
- Great Expectations