1. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 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 willing to do when impoverished and disenfranchised? NOTICE THE USE OF QUESTIONS TO CREATE //

7. Works Cited “Charles Dickens. biography.” Biography.com. 2001. 29 Nov. 2011. <http://www.biography.com/people/charles-dickens-9274087>. Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. London: Penguin Publishing, 2011. Print. Mitchell, Sally. Daily Life in Victorian England. New York: Greenwood Press, 2008. Print. Picard, Liza. Victorian London: The Tale of a City 1840-1870. New York: Stockingbridge Press, 2007. Print. Tomalin, Claire. Charles Dickens: A Life. Chicago: Oxland, 2011. Print.