Great Expectations wider reading by Nicola O'Shea https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx Made to make your brain grow en-us 2018-01-30 09:56:41 UTC 2018-03-01 10:29:41 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Lightdecrease.png noshea https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/225996782 2018-01-30 09:59:59 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/225996782 noshea https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/226000232 2018-01-30 10:10:15 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/226000232 noshea https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/226001209 2018-01-30 10:13:10 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/226001209 noshea https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/226002732 2018-01-30 10:17:24 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/226002732 noshea https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/226003093 2018-01-30 10:18:19 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/226003093 Record your response here... noshea https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/226003597 2018-01-30 10:19:37 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/226003597 Record your response here... noshea https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/226003997 2018-01-30 10:20:44 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/226003997 Record your response here... noshea https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/226004032 2018-01-30 10:20:53 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/226004032 Record your response here... noshea https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/226004059 2018-01-30 10:20:59 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/226004059 Record your response here... noshea https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/226004099 2018-01-30 10:21:08 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/226004099 noshea https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/226005054 2018-01-30 10:24:16 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/226005054 Record your response here noshea https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/226005273 2018-01-30 10:25:07 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/226005273 noshea https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/226005587 2018-01-30 10:26:13 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/226005587 noshea https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/226005861 2018-01-30 10:27:07 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/226005861 Record your response here... noshea https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/226005952 2018-01-30 10:27:24 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/226005952 https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236754769 PIp is a conscious of darkness at the heart of Magwitch's rise in fortune

]]> 2018-03-01 02:39:43 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236754769 https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236755088 Pip's values are shattered, as he reassesses the true meaning of being a gentleman]]> 2018-03-01 02:41:43 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236755088 Great Expectations blends together all kinds of different Genres together. Gothic is used as a psychological and transformation as well as crisis https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236755109 2018-03-01 02:41:51 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236755109 https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236755239 The Middle Class believed that all people, regardless of their beginnings, would be able to become wealthy. This led Mrs Joe's firmly held opinion that Pip would provide ample money for the family.]]> 2018-03-01 02:42:40 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236755239 https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236755332 Miss Havisham is so haunted by her past, that her current self resembles that of the dead]]> 2018-03-01 02:43:17 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236755332 Fortunes and social mobility in Great Expectations can be made and lost as easily. https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236755455 2018-03-01 02:43:59 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236755455 https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236755529 Pip aspires to social advancement and assumes the eccentric Miss Havisham as his sponsor

]]> 2018-03-01 02:44:29 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236755529 Magwitch and Miss Havisham both resemble the dead. They are both able to seize the living and change their will https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236755559 2018-03-01 02:44:43 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236755559 In order to ensure that the aristocracy no longer had an unfair advantage, the middle classes campaigned energetically for electoral reform and free trade. Victorians believed it should be possible, for anybody to succeed in the world through their efforts no matter his origins. https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236755680 2018-03-01 02:45:38 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236755680 https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236755737 Pip realizes that money isn't all it takes to become a gentleman and many other 'gentleman' are corrupt

]]> 2018-03-01 02:45:53 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236755737 https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236755764 Pip Aspires to find the true meaning on "gentleman" ]]> 2018-03-01 02:46:02 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236755764 https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236755858  ]]> 2018-03-01 02:46:32 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236755858 Pip thinks of himself as someone 'pursued by the creature that had made me' https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236755876 2018-03-01 02:46:38 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236755876 Used to open the text and demonstrate how the characters develop without parents. peiridr15 https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236755952 2018-03-01 02:46:55 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236755952 https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236756073 Great Expectations varies in showing how Gothic Pip's world is, sometimes subversively showing the reader through
 text and sometimes through the characters and their relationship with the past. ]]> 2018-03-01 02:47:30 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236756073 https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236756076 Once someone or a group of people are in a specific class, it is very hard to get out of it]]> 2018-03-01 02:47:32 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236756076 https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236756082 Magwitch's desperation and need for food demonstrated the poor treatment of convicts on the hulks. The lack of food and clean clothing would have been an issue]]> 2018-03-01 02:47:34 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236756082 Pip forced into a kind of relationship with crime. In example he finds himself on the same coach as two convicts https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236756119 2018-03-01 02:47:50 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236756119 https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236756166 Dickens found fascinating how a person can become anew by becoming a person of different class, but knew the exploitation and suffering that came along with it]]> 2018-03-01 02:48:05 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236756166 https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236756312 Great expectations cannot be classified under one specific genre of text as it explores more and more as the novel develops]]> 2018-03-01 02:49:01 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236756312 internet not working https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236756396 2018-03-01 02:49:35 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236756396 https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236756441 The Victorian Era saw the philosophy that every man should be able to succeed through hard work, embodied by the middle class]]> 2018-03-01 02:49:57 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236756441 https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236756453 Magwitch and Miss Havisham both are living examples of the dead. 

]]> 2018-03-01 02:50:03 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236756453 Sight can't be reached. https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236756461 2018-03-01 02:50:07 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236756461 https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236756499 The]]> 2018-03-01 02:50:20 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236756499 https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236756513 In Great Expectations, crime exists as a powerful psychological force.

]]> 2018-03-01 02:50:28 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236756513 Pip going against the odds https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236756552 Pip aspires to be a gentleman despite his upbringing of his abusive sister and the poverty they faced as a family]]> 2018-03-01 02:50:44 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236756552 Great Expectations provides an insightful idea of how people of the nineteenth century could not get away from crime. Additionally, it provides a clear representation of how poorly criminals were treated. peiridr15 https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236756593 2018-03-01 02:51:01 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236756593 https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236756642 Charles Dickens only wrote two books in the first person]]> 2018-03-01 02:51:22 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236756642 https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236756699 The novel reveals that we must move on with our lives, and place loyalty and affection above wealth and social status]]> 2018-03-01 02:51:46 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236756699 https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236756730 Dickens found it it mesmerizing how a person could become completely different just by changing their class ]]> 2018-03-01 02:51:55 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236756730 https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236756798 There is not so much death as there is the living resembling the dead in the text.]]> 2018-03-01 02:52:20 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236756798 https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236756906 The middle class was the class that believed than any man or woman could become wealthy if they worked hard and were dedicated to the cause ]]> 2018-03-01 02:53:00 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236756906 https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236756907 TH]]> 2018-03-01 02:53:00 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236756907 https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236756908 " since Pip hasn’t worked for his wealth, he finds his new position unsatisfying and his sense of guilt is woven into the plot."]]> 2018-03-01 02:53:00 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236756908 https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236756973 Pip shows readers that crime is not something distant, rather a reality for those who cannot make a living]]> 2018-03-01 02:53:21 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236756973 https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236756998 to ensure fairness within social classes, the newly middle class campaigned for free trade and the right to vote]]> 2018-03-01 02:53:34 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236756998 https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236757000 Gothic is a motif clearly present in Great Expectations.]]> 2018-03-01 02:53:34 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236757000 https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236757020 The characters in Dickens novels often make huge social transitions, both from wealth to poverty or the other way round.]]> 2018-03-01 02:53:40 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236757020 https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236757068 Convicts are treated not as humans but as animals and looked upon disgustedly even though they could be convicted for such petty crimes.]]> 2018-03-01 02:53:56 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236757068 https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236757161 Magwitch's life sentence as a result of many petty crimes is an example of the severity of sentences during the time ]]> 2018-03-01 02:54:26 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236757161 https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236757286 "It is usual for characters in Gothic fiction to find themselves in a strange place; somewhere other, different, mysterious. It is often threatening or violent, sometimes sexually enticing, often a prison"]]> 2018-03-01 02:55:13 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236757286 The Gothic location and background of the text reveal the sinister undercurrents of 19th century Britain and how death is always lurking behind you https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236757334 2018-03-01 02:55:31 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236757334 https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236757460 "Just as places are often mysterious, lost, dark or secret in Gothic fiction, so too are its characteristic times."]]> 2018-03-01 02:56:18 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236757460 Great Expectations is a Bildungsroman that explores the life of orphaned, Pip. peiridr15 https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236757526 2018-03-01 02:56:46 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236757526 https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236757540 Many orphans were used to show how that even though when a child was exposed to such hardship they were seen as a better and more mature person if they could deal with these problems and stay pure to their beliefs.]]> 2018-03-01 02:56:51 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236757540 https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236757553 Gothic seeks to create the knowledge in our mind that there may be things above human knowledge, pride and power]]> 2018-03-01 02:56:55 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236757553 https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236757694 Orphans are used in novels to show how the character must their own way in the world they are forced to navigate alone ]]> 2018-03-01 02:57:44 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236757694 Dickens comments on the inability to successfully change social class through the unrealistic circumstances in which Pip finds wealth https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236757781 2018-03-01 02:58:16 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236757781 https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236757816 Orphans are above all a character out of place who is to be sympathized with, as they try to make their own way in the world]]> 2018-03-01 02:58:29 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236757816 https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236757857 The Industrial Revolution caused the creation of a middle class. They became wealthy due to their own successes rather than inheritance.]]> 2018-03-01 02:58:39 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236757857 Orphans are used to show the maze of experiences that encounter threats and opportunities that may change their lives https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236757862 2018-03-01 02:58:41 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236757862 https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236757949 Gothic writing is unique, as it crosses reality and imagination, combining both what many perceive things to be with an object or character seen in everyday life. It shows it in a new light]]> 2018-03-01 02:59:04 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236757949 Pips interactions with Mag-witch highlights how any good man will sink to the level in which he is treated https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236758503 2018-03-01 03:02:18 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236758503 Pip is appalled when he finds out that Magwitch returns for his 'dear boy... the gentlemen what I made' https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236758795 2018-03-01 03:04:10 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236758795 Pip is revolted when Magwitch claims him as his "dear boy" , "the gentleman what I made." Despite this, Pip learns that the criminal is a man reduced, but still a man. https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236758952 2018-03-01 03:05:09 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236758952 https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236759276 Great Expectations has a fixation on how people perform and pretend about their class and status in society. 

]]> 2018-03-01 03:07:04 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236759276 Dickens uses Great Expectations to display the hardships faced by the lower class in a challenging 19th century. In particular he uses Pip's upbringing to discuss the difficulties, especially forchildren and the cycle of poverty. https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236759621 2018-03-01 03:09:19 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236759621 https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236759870 The gothic genre is intended to shock us out of our limits in everyday life]]> 2018-03-01 03:10:41 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236759870 https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236760221 the orphan leads the reader through their own life experiences as they discover them]]> 2018-03-01 03:12:56 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236760221 Dickens uses imagery to create a Gothic landscape to seem imposing on Pip and show his vulnerability as both a child and as someone from a poor family. https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236760935 2018-03-01 03:17:39 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236760935 Through the character of both Pumblechook and Mrs Joe Gargery, Dickens shows how the rich viewed the poor as celebrities and how there was much desperation for the poor to be 'raised up' to a higher social class. https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236761341 2018-03-01 03:19:57 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236761341 Great Expectations provides a clear representation of how there is a clear distinction between the upper class and the poorer class. peiridr15 https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236761388 2018-03-01 03:20:13 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236761388 Charles Dickens' use of Imagery and gothical language helps to build a gothic environment. peiridr15 https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236762134 2018-03-01 03:24:49 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236762134 https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236819429 Demonstrating the roles and requirements to fit in with the upper class. Dickens simultaneously denounces such views but also supports the idea of self made people]]> 2018-03-01 09:43:05 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236819429 https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236821319 Dickens shows in Great Expectations that crime is always a thing that follows Pip around where ever he goes. From the people he meets to complete coincidences]]> 2018-03-01 09:50:32 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236821319 https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236827137 The Gothic genre is one of ever shaping forms but all have the common trait of trying to make us experience a "sublime" enjoyment of the medium through making us feel terror ]]> 2018-03-01 10:14:10 UTC https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236827137 https://padlet.com/noshea/au9ykxx9f8gx/wish/236830126 Orphans are used in narratives because they have very few ties and allows the character to discover the world that are in. It also allows writers to display the terrible conditions of which orphans had to suffer through, especially in almost all of Charles Dickens' works.

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