1. Great Expectations: And the Lives that They Destroy
A Presentation by Lulu Collins
For Mr. Donnie Bailey
Honors English III
Due: 18 May 2016

2. Charles Dickens Birth, family, and early life
Poverty and time as a child laborer
Transition into journalism
Earliest novels and failure
Success
Social issues in literature
Child labor, poverty, classism, London
Later life and death
NOTICE THE USE OF FRAGMENTS THROUGHOUT TO CREATE //

3. Great Expectations - Plot
Introduction of Pip
The thief
Time with Joe and “Mrs. Joe”
Treatment by family
Move to London
Mrs. Havisham and Estella
Inheritance and wealth
Struggle for acceptance
Pip and Estella
Revelations and dignity

4. Victorianism Classism – Definition
Social classes and their characteristics
Affluent
Middleclass
Impoverished
Characteristics of Victorian society

5. Victorianism Classism – Examples
The treatment of Pip by his sister
Education in the novel
Mrs. Havisham and Estella’s view of Pip
The thief and his role
Debt and wealth in the novel

6. Victorian Classism - Effect
Pity for Pip and Joe
A warped view of society
Why is the “other” lesser?
The importance of education
Reevaluation of “roles”
Who is good, bad?
Self-doubt
What am I willing to do when impoverished and disenfranchised?
NOTICE THE USE OF QUESTIONS TO CREATE //

7. Works Cited
“Charles Dickens. biography.” Biography.com Web.Nov Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. London: Penguin Publishing, Print. Mitchell, Sally. Daily Life in Victorian England. New York: Greenwood Press, Print. Picard, Liza. Victorian London: The Tale of a City New York: Stockingbridge Press, Print. Tomalin, Claire. Charles Dickens: A Life. Chicago: Oxland, Print.