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Great Expectations 5 - Essay

Great Expectations 5

The major themes from Charles Dickens novel "Great Expectations" are discussed to their importance in life while concerning their structure.Out of these many themes I have chosen love in the context of human relationships, isolation and finally redemption. While in the state of isolation the loneliness that you bring upon yourself can only be redeemed by the opposite sex.
The greatest sin we can commit against ourselves and others while in the state of isolation is by shunning the human companionship as the old lady Miss Haversham had already done.After Compeyson,her fiancé, left her standing at the alter Miss Haversham felt she had been betrayed in love and hardened her heart towards ...

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Estella, Miss Haversham has some hidden motives to turn the child into a haughty,heartless instrument of revenge against men.Estella is encouraged to practice her disdain on the garden boy Pip and to break his poor heart. Unfortunately,the only one being affected by this scheme is Miss Haversham herself.She has lost her generosity and has become withered inside emotionally.Miss Haversham only punishment is that the heartless young woman she has created will use her lack of feelings against her.
For most of the novel Estella takes pleasure in her role of avenger, but Estella herself is isolated.She is partly responsible for Pips estrangement and snobbery to Joe and Biddy.Like Miss Haversham Estella becomes a victim of her own plans.She gets involved with a loveless marriage to Drummle,who is cruel to her.The use of revenge punishes the avenger and is punished in return.
Pip feels emotionally and geographically isolated with his arrival to London.Jaggers isolation is his ...

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Added: 1/5/2008 10:02:16 AM
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