JOURNEY OF GREAT EXPECTATIONS

As a part of International Baccalaureate Programe, this essay was taken in hand as part of the English Literature and Language class. This essay analyses the “Desire for Revenge”, “Social Class Differences” and “Self Efficacy” as a motive that shaped the main characters’ destinies in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. The purpose of this essay is to reflect on how characters inner conflicts, vengeful attributes and the social standings of 19th century London contributes to not only Pip, Estella, Miss Havishams’ but other characters life changing events as well. The essay is outlined as; In the first chapter of the four chaptered essay; how the desire for revenge shaped the characters life was discussed while in the second chapter social class differences role in characters destinies was discussed. On the third chapter, self efficacy’s role in characters destinies was given and lastly, other factors that affected characters future and present was represented. In the end of the essay, it was seen that “social class differences”, “revenge as a motive” and “self efficacy” do effect characters future and present in more ways then thought