Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Reading Questions: Great Expectations

1. What role does social class play in Great Expectations?
2.Explain what you think Pip would look like in person. Use textual examples to help support your analysis. 
3. Where does this novel take place? Why did the author choose this location?
4. What impression do you get of London society after reading Great Expectations?
















A1. Relating this question to Pip, he starts off as a lower middle class person. When he meets  Havisham who is an upper class lady, his views begin to change. When he gets money he realizes it cannot give him happiness. "Money can't buy you happiness."


A2. Just by his name, and how it is so short and unimportant sounding, I picture him being short and scrawny, or the kid that gets beat up after school by bullies. The fact that he is so innocent and compassionate in the beginning of the novel supports my analysis. 


A3. Great Expectations took place in the Kent region of England and London.


A4. ...

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