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This is a guide for students of English, illustrating ways of constructing a critical response to novels. It shows how, through analysis of passages, they can approach novels confidently and independently and construct and articulate a personal response.

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  • Pip Pirripp: Protagonist in Peck's discussion of Great Expectations
  • Mrs Joe Gargery: Pip's aunt and example of the harshness of Utilitarianism.
  • Joe Gargery: Pip's uncle, who Dickens uses to show the inherent opposition between Utilitarianism, the growth of cities and towns and Industrialisation, and the values and moral code of artisans and the pastoral scene.
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  1. John Peck (Author)

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