Romeo_Juliet

Victorian Times Victoria was born in 1819 in Kensington Palace in London. Her name was Alexandrina Victorian. When Princess Victoria was 18 years old her uncle King William died and she became queen. She was crowned at Westminster Abbey in 1838. Victoria married her handsome cosine Albert a young prince from Germany. Albert didn’t speak English very well and lots of people didn’t like him. The Victoria became notorious for employing young children in factories and mines and as chimney sweeps. Children were expected to help towards the family budget, often working long hours in dangerous jobs and low wages. Many children got stock in the chimneys that they were sweeping and eventually died. In factories it was not uncommon for children to lose limbs crawling under machinery to pick things up. Children of poor families would leave school at age of eight and then forced to go to work. School was not free at that time. The reason for these children to work was the family was poor or they were orphan. Lots of orphans worked at workhouse to earn bit of many. There parents starved for food and eventually died. So children had no care, no choice, just work, work, and work. Dickens life Charles Dickens was raised in poor conditions Charles was born 1812, his father worked for the Navy pay office, as Charles got bigger he attended to school near home, that was not a problem the many they had to pay was little. Charles had a new life in London now he was not earning much but at least to keep him on his feet. Later in life when Charles was twenty his father and his five brothers also a sister also his mother was arrested for depute and later was in prison called Marshals. Charles visited his family regularly in the prison and never forgets his experiences about misery. Charles promised himself not make the mistake as his father did, so he thought not to make life worse for himself. So that meant he had to make his own way of life. Charles did not know how to do things for himself because he did not go to half of things that young adult like him did such as university, money, education, friends. He became a great novelist of the Victorian age. His novels were outstandingly popular in his time and are still popular now. His books include stories about thieves, convicts and schoolboys. He wrote about ordinary people and how they lived, about terrible prisons, bad schools and the workhouse. First Person As an infant Phillip Pirrip was unable to pronounce either his first name or his last, doing his best, he called himself “Pip” and the name stuck. Now Pip, a young boy, an orphan living with his sister’s house. On evening, Pip sits in the insolated village churchyard, staring at his parents tombstones. Suddenly, a old horrific man, dressed in rages and with his leg in chains springs out from behind the gravestones and seizes Pip. Pip is always afraid child and the reason for it is because he never had the parent to say it well be ok, don’t worry everything well be all right. For example “sea and that the small bundle of shrives growing afraid of it all and beginning to cry”. That’s not only time Pip feels afraid there lots of times in the story as he feels neglected. Pip is much hurt child and needs mending, in Great Expectation, Charles wants us to feel sympathy for Pip. Imagery The Graveyard imagery is hurtful to even think for second. A lonely little boy sitting there in a place where it is unnatural, uncared, lifeless and thinking about his parents. The weather at that moment feels very cold and grey. The gates are open and closing, it is like as they are calling you. A child wanting answer to question is disturbed. An old scary, grapy rag comes out of no where and threatens to cut his tongue `O! Don't cut my throat, sir,' I pleaded in terror. `Pray don't do it, sir’. That’s not all the only thing the old man does him, he then later takes Pips money. The Satis House is very unpleasant, uncondished, unwelcoming home. Pip thinks now he has a chance of experiencing what it feels like to be upper class, but his in for more then he is bragging for. The Satis might look from outside a mansion but it is dead inside. Miss Havisham is snow whit but every odd as every clock in the house has stopped at (twenty minutes to nine). The first time Pip arrives in the house he notices the gates as he entries the house so they go around the court-yard “My young conductress locked the gate, and we went across the court-yard”. Pip notices the first time he enters that the room looks motionless and lifeless “It was then I began to understand that everything in the room had stopped, like the watch and the clock, a long time ago” Miss Havisham looks like a white duck; she is sitting there in all pallid ’ ”She was dressed in rich materials - satins, and lace, and silks - all of white. Her shoes were white. And she had a long white veil dependent from her hair, and she had bridal flowers in her hair, but her hair was white”. Pip feels like he is a hanger-on as he has to flow Estella around the house. It is proven in enough that the house is disturbed. Characters Charles Dickens was well known for his novel. Charles wrote novels because it inspired him. The times he lived, he had been in prison for owing a depute himself. If you could not pay depute in time you would have to be charged and would have to spend a night or two in prison. He felt emotional and needed support. Charles Dickens had to put his past behind him. He started writing novels about children that had no home, no care, and no parent, just like him when he was small. Dickens characters are some of the most memorable in fiction. Often these most characters were based on people that he knew, such as his mother and father. Here are more of the characters in defined words. Pip plays a character that captures our attention in Great Expectation. Charles wants us to feel pity for him. For example the beginning of the story he’s in the graveyard scene, he’s just in his own little world, he wants to know about his mother and father ‘As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them’ Estella is one of many characters in Great Expectation, she becomes in the end sympathetic character. She treats everybody lower class and the reason behind is Miss Havisham. Case in point “with this boy! Why, he is a common laboring-boy!” .The way she treats Pip is arrogant, she knows his name at the time she call’s him “boy”, she likes to think she is big. Miss Havisham brained washed Estella because her wedding didn’t as planned and now she thinks that every man in the world is useless. Miss Havisham is a wealthy old women, her life is defined by a single tragic event: her jilting by Compassion on what was to have been their wedding day. From that moment forth, Miss Havisham is determined never to move beyond her heartbreak. She stops all the clocks in Satis House at twenty minutes to nine, the moment when she first learned that Compassion was gone, and she wears only one shoe, because when she learned of his betrayal, she had not yet put on the other shoe. With a kind of manic, obsessive cruelty, Miss Havisham adopts Estella and raises her as a weapon to achieve her own revenge on men. Miss Havisham is an example of single-minded vengeance pursued destructively. Miss Havisham treats Pip like a normal boy and acts like she is on his side while Estella treats him like dirt for instance “I should think. But don’t loiter, boy. ." Settings The graveyard setting are sympatric, as the Charles wants us to feel the feeling of not knowing your parents and not see them your life, but just judging them from letters on a tombstones “the shape of the letters on my fathers, gave me an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man, with curly black hair” Pip is just infant what would he know about his parents, no body ever spoke about his parents to him, and he has to use his little imagination. For example “as I never saw my father or mother, and never saw any likeness of either”. The graveyard is very disturbing setting for any child. Already we are feeling sorry for him, for a child that never seen any of his parent it is he has a good imagination. The Satis house settings have bad emotions on Pip because he is forced to work there and as soon as he gets there he wants to go back home. The description of the place makes your thick would stay there just for a day' How to describe Miss Havisham garden in ten words or less' How about DEAD' Everything in it is either dead or deformed. “The brewery buildings had a little lane of communication with it and wooden gates of that lane stood open and the entire brewery beyond stood open, away to the high enclosing wall”. The Satis house is very scary and looks dead from outside and inside, as Pip entries the house he notices that the house is dark. By Hafsa Mohammed