Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
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Ambition and Self-Improvement The novel “Great Expectations” is written by Charles Dickens. The story is about a young man whose name was Pip. Pip̵7;s dream was to be a gentleman and to be in love with Estella. But before he reached this, we can read in the book how Pip was changing himself. The theme “Ambition and Self-Improvement” is an important topic in the novel of Charles Dickens. How different is the young Pip as the Pip who becomes a gentleman? There are three questions which can help us to answer the above question. The first question is how has the level of his education changed over the years. The second question is how has his social class changed. And the third question is how has his morality changed. The three questions are quite similar. Summarized there are three important words for Pip̵7;s self-improvement:…[show more]