LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY (18TH 19TH) CENTURIES
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Penal reform
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Educational reform
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The role of the monarchy
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Both A and B
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Detailed explanation-1: -Dickens treats a variety of social issues in Great Expectations-prejudice, materialism, social status, and class-in a sensible manner that the teacher, librarian, and parent will undoubtedly applaud.
Detailed explanation-2: -The major conflict of Great Expectations revolves around Pip’s ambitious desire to reinvent himself and rise to a higher social class.
Detailed explanation-3: -Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations tells the story of Pip, an English orphan who rises to wealth, deserts his true friends, and becomes humbled by his own arrogance. It also introduces one of the more colorful characters in literature: Miss Havisham.
Detailed explanation-4: -Ambition and Self-Improvement. The moral theme of Great Expectations is quite simple: affection, loyalty, and conscience are more important than social advancement, wealth, and class. Social Class. Crime, Guilt, and Innocence. Sophistication. Education. Family.