Charles Dickens notes
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This Charles Dickens notes page gathers community-made notes on Great Expectations, Bleak House and other novels. With more than 9 notes, it offers school students material for practising character and theme revision, and teachers material for lessons. Pick a note and start exploring.
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Untitled Examine the view Estella is presented as a calculating and manipulative schemer in this extract Dickens aims to portray the character of Estella to represent discerning qualities which are demonstrated within upper cl...
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Untitled Pip Pirrip: The Bildungsroman’s protagonist, an orphan who serves as an apprentice to a gentle blacksmith, Joe. When he unexpectedly comes into a fortune, Pip grows haughty and extravagant in pursuit of a lifestyle ge...
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Great Expectations - created from Mind Map Key themes Other readers Structure
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Great Expectations - created from Mind Map Key themes Structure Narrative voice
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Great Expectations Plot Summary Follows pips childhood and adulthood Blacksmiths apprentice in a country village Gets a large amount of money from an unknown benefactor moves to London and enters high society Thinks money ha...
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Untitled Wider reading Notes 1 Hard times - Charles Dickens Education to industry Private school headmaster . Gradgrind explains how he educates those who attend his school with the theory that facts aloe are wante...
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Great Expectations: Miss Havisham - created from Mind Map Manipulative Rich mother figure to pip but taunts and abuses him
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Pip (narrator) - creado desde un Mapa Mental Mrs Joe (Pip´s sister who abused of him) Joe (blacksmith who is married to Pip´s sister) Uncle Pumblechook (Joe´s uncle)
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BLEAK HOUSE: CHARACTERS - created from Mind Map Ada Clare Richard Carstone Esther Summerson
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oliver twist Oliver Twist is born and raised into a life of poverty and misfortune in a workhouse in an unnamed town 70 miles north of London. Orphaned by his mother's death in childbirth and his father's mysterious absence...
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Research Page on Charles Dickens - created from Mind Map A Christmas Carol is set in London, England. During the poor parts and the Industrial Revolution in the 1800s. Charles Dickens was born on the 7th February 1812 Landport, Portsmouth. A few of his books are Great Expec...
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Untitled My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.I give Pirrip ...
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The Characters from A Tale of Two Cities - created from Mind Map Lucie Manett Darney Charels Darney Mr. Lorry
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C. DICKENS - created from Mind Map 1812/1870 unhappy childhood Talent for writing
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The notes offer different ways into the listed texts. Great Expectations gives a plot summary, while other notes cover its themes, narrative voice and symbols. There are also character notes on Miss Havisham and Pip, a list of Bleak House characters, and notes on Oliver Twist and characters from A Tale of Two Cities.
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