Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
A word in earnest is as good as a speech.
Injustice breeds injustice
Accidents will occur in the best regulated families
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some
The sun does not shine upon this fair earth to meet frowning eyes, depend upon it.
Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,--they do, thank God!
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Dickens and 'Great Expectations'
Christ Church, University of Oxford
Sun, 5th August 2012 - Sat, 11th August 2012
Charles Dickens remains one of the most widely-read and adapted of all English novelists. This course provides an opportunity to learn how to read in-depth and enjoy Dickens by focusing on the celebrated novel 'Great Expectations'. We will examine the twists and turns of the plot, the characters (including the famous Miss Havisham), Dickens’s style and imagerym the symbolism of place and the book’s broader themes. We will consider the fascinating question of the novel’s several endings. The study of 'Great Expectations' will be supplemented by an exploration of Lloyd Jones’ novel 'Mister Pip' as an imaginative response to 'Great Expectations', plus extracts from a number of film and TV adaptations.
