Can you please look up Great Expectations on Sparknotes and give me essay questions? ?

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My Sparknotes doesn't work on my computer. It says cannot display webpage or whatever. So can you please go into Sparknotes.com and search Great Expectations. There will be a part that says essay review questions or something. Please give me them, got a test on Monday! First day of school. I know, Adv English is hard. ;D

Answer 1

1. Discuss Pip as both a narrator and a character. How are different aspects of his personality revealed by his telling of his story and by his participation in the story itself?

2. What role does social class play in Great Expectations? What lessons does Pip learn from his experience as a wealthy gentleman? How is the theme of social class central to the novel?

3. Throughout the novel, Pip is plagued by powerful feelings of guilt and shame, and everywhere he goes he tends to encounter symbols of justice—handcuffs, gallows, prisons, and courtrooms. What is the role of guilt in the novel? What does it mean to be “innocent”?

and here are some from cliffnotes

1:  With whom does Pip live at the beginning of the book?

a. His sister and her husband

b. Miss Havisham

c. Uncle Pumblechook

d. Jaggers



2:  Miss Havisham’s is obsessed with which event from the past?

a. The death of her only daughter

b. Her fiancé’s jilting her on their wedding day

c. The loss of her favorite dog

d. The death of her husband in the war



3:  Whose admiration is Pip seeking when he tries to better himself?

a. The Pale Young Gentleman’s

b. His uncle’s

c. His sister’s

d. Estella’s



4:  What is strange about the man that Pip encounters at the Jolly Bargemen?

a. He looks exactly as Miss Havisham described her fiancé.

b. He looks exactly like Miss Havisham.

c. He has the file that Pip stole years ago for the convict.

d. He knows all the details of Pip’s life.



5:  Whom does Pip think his “great expectations” will be from?

a. Mr. Jaggers

b. Uncle Pumblechook

c. Mrs. Joe

d. Miss Havisham



6:  Who teaches Pip how to be a gentleman in London?

a. Drummle

b. Mr. Matthew Pocket

c. Mr. Jaggers

d. Mr. Wemmick



7:  Who is the true source of Pip’s “great expectations”?

a. Magwitch

b. Mr. Matthew Pocket

c. Miss Havisham

d. Mr. Jaggers



8:  Whom does Estella marry?

a. Drummle

b. Herbert

c. Pip

d. Joe



9:  Whom does Biddy marry?

a. Pip

b. Joe

c. Herbert

d. Magwitch



10:  Who says the following: “If you can’t get to be oncommon through going straight, you’ll never get to do it through going crooked.”

a. Pip

b. Miss Havisham

c. Joe

d. Mr. Pocket



11:  Who says the following: “I am as unhappy as you can ever have meant me to be.”

a. Biddy

b. Herbert

c. Estella

d. Pip



12:  Who says the following: “I never have loved and I never can love any human creature breathing but yourself."

a. Dickens

b. Pip

c. Estella

d. Clara

Answer 2

Have a look at these study guides.  They should give you some ideas about your question and help you with your work with Great Expectations.  Also do a search for the novel title here on Yahoo Answers and you will find that many other questions have been asked about it, and those questions and answers should be of help to you.

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Answer 3

I hate that Book