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To Beth ,
Here is my work,
Best regards, Alicia
What is Santiago’s fatal flaw/ Achille’s Heel?
I think Santiago’s main weakness is he cares too much about nature. This is shown when he is deciding whether or not to slaughter the marlin. This means he has respect for the great fish and does not want to lead it to its death. This is because he thinks that it won’t hurt to treat him like he would treat his brother since we all come from nature. It is also shown when he says that no one is worthy to eat the fish-it shows that he thinks the fish deserves equal suspect to humans. Santiago is uneasy when he is deciding whether or not to murder it.
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Hi Beth, here is my work!
“A man can be destroyed but not defeated.” Do you agree with this? Why or why not?
I agree with this since many things can destroy man, but as long as man perseveres, carries on and is persistent, he cannot be defeated.
Santiago can be destroyed in many ways. Some examples are death, not catching a fish for 84 days and being towed by the marlin for 4 days. These all have something in common. They will not defeat man. People can learn from the dead and on their ideas, experiments and work, they can build better things, more useful things that people will benefit from. Not catching a fish for 84 days has destroyed his reputation but instead of being defeated and giving up, Santiago becomes more determined and goes further than anyone else and stays longer than anyone else. Being towed by the marlin only makes him more determined to kill it. So, this shows that nothing can defeat man unless they give up.
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Hi Beth! sorry about the lateness!
Question C: What does Miss Havisham represent?
In Great Expectations Miss Havisham was a mean, cold hearted, revengeful woman. However, what does she really represent?
Miss Havisham was betrayed by her to-be -husband on her wedding day, a day for a fresh start, a day when a part of the soul is re-born. But how does this affect her? Well without this betrayal, she would not have represented what she does.
Miss Havisham represents three things. She represents love, betrayal and revenge.
Miss Havisham represents all these through being jilted at the altar. Revenge on the male sex is shown through her coldness and training Estella to torture every man.
Love is shown through her “blind love” for Compasson after he had convinced her of true love for her.
Betrayal is represented through Compasson and the betrayal he made, causing half of what happened in Great Expectations.
What Miss Havisham is, solely relates to Compasson and his behaviour to Miss Havisham on their wedding day.
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To Beth
Sorry for the lateness!
Alicia
Question C: What is the moral of Great Expectations?
In Great Expectations, the moral seems to be quite simple. It is not so simple though. The moral is:
Never waste money, even when you are rich because you might lose it all.
This is shown through the character Pip (Philip Pirrip) the main character. At the start he could not have wasted any money since he was looked after a poor blacksmith Joe Gagery and Pip’s sister married to Joe.
Eventually though, Pip has a sponsor, who makes him a gentleman, who is revealed to be the prisoner Mr Magwitch. Pip is taken away to London where he lives with Herbert, a relative of Miss Havisham, Estella’s mother by adoption.
It is here where humongous debts descend on Pip and his friend Herbert. Pip cannot repay his debts and it is here in my opinion the moral slides in. It warns others to not fall into the trap of wastefulness and nearly suffer from debtors’ prison, when it is not needed at all.
The context of Dickens’ writing might have affected the morals he chose to explore since back then, the upper-class society were all the richest. They could spend money freely, like Pip and so maybe Dickens wanted to warn them to not waste like Pip.
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Which Spirit Has the most influence on Scrooge?
Personally, I think that the spirit which has the biggest influence on scrooge is the last spirit, the spirit of Christmas yet to come. This spirit is the one who shows him horrible things about what will happen when he dies. It shows him the bed curtains ripped down, his property taken and sold for little money, how Tiny Tim died and most important of all, he was shown that he died. This had a big impact on him, bigger than the other two spirits could provide. What Scrooge did not want was a death, since he wanted to not be cursed for eternity, wearing chains, keys and other heavy things. He realised things about the poor and beggars. He realised that they deserve dignity and the men that came to ask for money to donate to the poor were doing very good deeds. He also realised it is kind, respectful and generous to give to poor. The spirit of Christmas yet to come is the spookiest spirit since it is cloaked, it does not speak and I would definitely be rather scared and I would freak out, since it is frightening.
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What is the moral of the story A Christmas Carol?
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is a classic story that we still read today, although it is approximately 200 years old. The story has a very strong moral behind the book though, and it is pointing out things in Victorian London through a classic story.
The moral is simple and easy. It is, “if you are rich and Miserly then you will not have a good afterlife.” Scrooge is the miserly person in the Storey And he never shares with anybody he does not spend money either and he is disrespectful to anybody poorer than him. His old friend shows him that and it does not work, so he sends three spirits to teach him a lesson.
The moral is the heart of the Storey without it the Storey wouldn’t be real it gives a warning to miserly people, begging them to change their old habits of heartlessness. Also, the moral makes the reader feel guilty since it awakes memories of Scrooge-like times.
There is also something else hugely impacts the story which is Christianity. Without it, Christmas wouldn’t be real, and the book couldn’t be real either.
The moral and book doesn’t say if you are already miserly, you can’t change, because at the end Scrooge changes and becomes a “second father” to Tiny Tim. Tiny Tim’s family was struggling and after seeing what Christmas really was, Scrooge helped Tim’s family, they united.
In my opinion, the moral is the most important part of the book except Christianity.
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