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Emma Sens wrote a new blog post Group 4: Refelction in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 9 months agoGroup 4: Places That Show The Development Of Pip
By: Kathryn Capone, Emma Sens, Clare Corbett, Cameron Luquer, Kristopher Bangsil, and Isa Higgins
Our goal with this project was to delve deeper into the […]
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Emma Sens commented on the post, Chapter 10, on the groupblog
Marginalia 4 years, 9 months agoAt the Three Jolly Bargemen Pip thinks he meets the convict again and is overcome by guilt.
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Emma Sens commented on the post, Chapter 53, on the groupblog
Marginalia 4 years, 9 months agoThe marshes are a major setting in the novel. They are discussed in chapter 1 where Pip lives, in chapter 53 where Pip is attacked, and when he crosses through them to his new life. The marshes show Pip’s […]
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Emma Sens commented on the post, Chapter 26, on the groupblog
Marginalia 4 years, 9 months agoWashing his hands of his clients and opening Pip’s eyes.
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Emma Sens commented on the post, Chapter 32, on the groupblog
Marginalia 4 years, 9 months agoPips love for Estella is shown here when he arrives early in anticipation for her coach.
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Emma Sens commented on the post, Chapter 14, on the groupblog
Marginalia 4 years, 9 months agoParagraphs 2 and 4 discusses Pips apprenticeship at the Forge with Joe and how his expectations and dreams for his life have changed, adn he believes he is destined for more.
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Emma Sens commented on the post, Chapter 32, on the groupblog
Marginalia 4 years, 9 months agoChapter 32 gives a description of Pips impression of the prioson in paragrph 15 and paragraph 16 shows how he is stunned by the way Wemmick is interacting with the prioners.
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Emma Sens wrote a new blog post powerful women in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 9 months agoAt the beginning of the year, I wondered about the roles women had women in Victorian literature, over the course I have learned a lot about this topic, and I think the most interesting thing I learned was how to […]
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Emma Sens edited the blog post Death by love in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 10 months agoA connection I made was between “The Ballad of Reading Gaol”, by Oscar Wilde and Wuthering Heights. The lines “Some kill their love when they are young,
And some when they are old;
Some strangle with the h […]
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Emma Sens wrote a new blog post children in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 10 months agoOne connection I made is how Pip and the child factory workers in “The Cry of the Children” can be viewed as similar. Throughout the poem, images of a factory Hell are contrasted with the Heaven of the Eng […]
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Emma Sens edited the blog post identity in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 10 months agoA common theme I see in both Wuthering Heights and Great Expectations is identity. In Wuthering Heights Heathcliff is an orphan with no identity and seeks it out in Catherine, and in Great Expectations Pip is […]
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Emma Sens edited the blog post status in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 11 months agoIn the beginning chapters of Great Expectations,
Dickens explores the class system of Victorian England. He discusses the
criminals, peasants, the middle class, rich, and more. When Estella lays Pip’s
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Emma Sens commented on the post, Chapter 8, on the groupblog
Marginalia 4 years, 11 months agoThere is a very vivid mention of the color white here. The color white can be portrayaed as innocence, purity, and virginity. It is considered to be the color of perfection, and can represent a successful […]
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Emma Sens edited the blog post Survival of the fit in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 11 months agoIn The Origins of Species by Natural Selection, Darwin
argues that the growing population is kept in check by features such as geography
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Emma Sens edited the blog post Heathcliff and the chimney sweeper in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 11 months agoOne connection I made was between Wuthering Heights
and The Chimney Sweeper was the parallel between Heathcliff and the chimney
boy. Heathcliff and the young boy have many similarities. The boy in The […] -
Emma Sens commented on the post, Chapter 28, on the groupblog
Marginalia 4 years, 11 months agoThe “kidnapping” of Catherine surprised me, because it is one of the first times Heathcliff completely disregards the law in a desperate act to protect himself. Linton needs to marry Cathy before Edgar’s death to […]
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Emma Sens wrote a new blog post outspoken women in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 11 months agoA connection I made was the powerful stance that both Emily Bronte and Harriet Martineau take on. Both women are writing during times when society was male dominated, yet don’t hesitate to voice their opinions a […]
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Emma Sens edited the blog post connection in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 5 years agoWith all the pieces we have read so far, I consistently see a theme of mistreatment of the lower class. In Wuthering Heights, it is demonstrated by the poor child who is referred to as “it” and banished to the […]
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Emma Sens edited the blog post connection to Carlyle in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 5 years agoOne thing I noticed was a parallel between Martineau and
Carlyle’s writing. Both are trying to be the voice for the unrepresented, Martineau
for the women and Carlyle for the working class. Both go on to d […] -
Emma Sens commented on the post, Martineau, Society in America, on the groupblog
Marginalia 5 years agoHarriet Martineau was a woman ahead of her time fighting to be a voice that was heard, regardless of what the consequences may be. This paragraph stuck out to me, because of the power behind the words and the […]
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