Great Expectations Skit Ideas

• In Chapter 49 when Miss Havisham is sitting by the fire and catches her old wedding dress on fire and Pip uses his greatcoat to try to put the fire out and ends up burning his hands.
• I personally liked the scene in Chapter 54 when Compeyson and Abel are thrown overboard together but Abel ends up getting away. I'm not sure how this would be acted out, I just thought it would be interesting to see what ideas people came up with.
• I also thought the scene when Pip is being held captive by Old Orlick in the dark and empty sluice house when Orlick is threatening to kill him for revenge and to burn him in the limekiln so that there would be no evadence or remains of Pip's body so no one would suspect a thing of Orlick.

Another Question

So after finding out that Abel Magwitch is Pip's benefactor I became confused as to why Abel decided to help Pip out and what specifically he was trying to do for Pip in Ch. 40. I'm pretty sure I understand why he's trying to help Pip, because he's trying to repay Pip for helping him when Pip was a lot younger. But what I don't get is whether he's just trying to provide money for Pip or if his intentions for Pip's benefits are bigger and having a wider meaning behind them. Like if he also wants Pip to grow in maturity or if he just wants to provide support financially so that he can be moved to a higher class in his social status.

Great Expectations: Question

Okay, so I'm not sure if I misinterpreted what was going on in this passage but i really have no clue what's going on. On page 262 through page 263 in chapter 30 Pip continues to see Trabb's boy wherever he goes. "I had not advanced another two hundred yards, when, to my inexpressible terror, amazement, and indignation, I again beheld Trabb's boy approaching... With a shock he became aware of me, and was severely visited as before; but this time his motion was rotatory, and he staggered round and round me with knees more afflicted, and with uplifted hands as if beseeching my mercy."

This passage really confused me. I'm not sure really what happened or whether I just missed something important that happened while reading. My question is why Trabb's boy is acting so strange and if this is actually happening or is Pip just imaging things like he did earlier in the book when he saw Miss Havisham hanging?

Great Expectations Picture Representation

This picture represents how Pip is leaving his home to go live in London where he will recieve his new fortune and will become more gentleman like. but with leaving his home comes leaving everything else behind as well. the swings represent Pip's childhood and him leaving means him loosing and leaving his childish ways behind. As he moves on to become a different, more educated, and mature man everything else fades as the new doors to a whole new world are opened for Pip to explore.

Great Expectations

Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.
What is Pip referring to?
How has this day altered him?
How has Pip's character developed on this "memorable day?"
Think of a memorable day in your life that began your "chain." How can the formation of your character or the person you are now be traced back to one life-altering day? Write two paragraphs. The first paragraph should discuss Pip's experience and the second paragraph should describe your own personal experiences.

Within this quote from the book Great Expectations Pip explains how one out of many memorable moments can alter your life drastically. The chain Pip discribes is the chain links formed by how you live your life whether they are gold (rich), thorns (ruff), or flowers (happy and joyful) links. This day has altered his perspective of himself and life. He no longer wanted to be Joe's apprentice for he had become inlove with Estella and knew once he was apprenticed to Joe he would no longer see Estella as much. Pip's character began to change emensly after this day. He grew more mature and understanding, and more emotional and feeling. In the beginning of Chapter 14, Pip says "Within a single year all this was changed. Now, it was all coarse and common, and I would not have had Miss Havisham and Estella see it on my account." which clearly shows that Pip's perspective has been altered since that day.
The memorable day in my life that began my "chain" was when i was 10 years old when my dad had his head injury. Life after that was never the same. My dad was a completely different person and to this day i dont remember what he was like before his injury. This accident caused many changes in my life and changed my perspective on how life works. After his accident, many unpredictable changes have occured. life is unpredictable in many ways and brings new experiences, bad or good, along the way. life is unfair and is short so enjoying the small things in life brings new meaning to your views of life and might make you more optomistic on what lifes got to give. This is clearly different from what i thought before the accident. i was oblivious to what happened in the real world and of the pain and suffering people go through. But after that day, my mind was opened to what really happens and i now am more understanding of the suffering that some people may come across in life.

Collaboration on Group Essay

So the paragraph that we decided i would do was about the comical lies/ or the mild lies. The three points that i'm using in my paragraph is Cecily making up her and Algernon's engagement in her journal, Cecily trying to make Miss Prism go away on a walk with Dr. Chasuble, and the topic of the reacurring motif of bunburying.
My commentary for my first point is focusing on how Celcily lies to herself to attempt to make her fantasy a reality in her own mind. So in a way, she is lying to herself. My commentary for the second point is about how Cecily dislikes her German lessons so much that she tried any thing possible to avoid her lessons. The commentary for my third point shows how Algernon uses Jacks lies against him to lie about himself being Jack's brother, Earnest, so that he can finally meet Cecily which then becomes an ironic situation for Jack and a lie that is made almost impossible to get out of.

Also, i would like to ask about my second point. I'm not really sure if my commentary adresses Cecily's lie correctly and if it supports the thesis properly. Please let me know what you think. Thanks.

The Importance of Being Earnest/ Victorian Research

The research I did on the Victorian Era has helped me understand the book, The Importance of Being Earnest, significantly. Especially through the knowledge of marriages during that time period. In the Victorian Era, marriages were thought more as a closure on a business deal instead of for love. This is shown many times throughout the book, especially from Algernon who says to Jack "I thought you had come up for pleasure?... I call that business" after Jack said "I am in love with Gwendolen. I have come up to town expressly to propose to her." I also learned that most children had very little education during the Victorian times. But children from rich families were able to afford to have governesses to teach them. In the book, you are able to realize through this information, that Cecily comes from a wealthy family, and this can be proved because she is taught German lessons by her governess, Miss Prism, which is what poor families weren't able to afford. Poor education is also mentioned by Lady Bracknell when she says "The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound" and when she is talking to Jack and says "Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever" which is showing satire towards education and shows that education was very poor in the Victorian Era but that family wealth is what was important.

What we consider important now, isn't necessarily the same as what people considered important during the Victorian Era. In fact, it was extremely different. Things like wealth, social class, and family history is what was very important to the people then. What people considered important was described many times throughout the book, like when Lady Bracknell says "to lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness." This is what Lady Bracknell says to Jack after he says that he lost both of his parents which shows how ancestry was also very important to be able to trace back to. The information i gathered from my research has enhanced my knowledge of what's "between the lines" while reading the book and has helped me to be able to dig deeper into understanding what's really happening while reading The Importance of Being Earnest.