Part one of term paper
In the book Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, the dominant theme is that true goodness and the value of goodness comes from inside a person, not their standing in society, or their wealth. There are some characters in the book who were aware of this, while there are some who had to find out the hard way. Those who found out the hard w ...

Part two of term paper
... people” just wouldn’t do it for him. He wanted to be something better than he was, but it’s not just because he was selfish and ignorant, it was also contributed to by Estella, a girl Pip fell in love with. “…Why, he is a common laboring-boy,” (561) were the exact words that broke Pip’s heart and drove him to yearn so much to be a gentleman. He dreaded the word “common”. It was not good enough for his girl, Estella. He had what Dickens called “great expectations”. Pip ...