Ok i really need people who have read Romeo and Juilet. I also need people who have read Great Expectations by Charles dikens. I have to right 3 Essay answers for an exam. And i read these books earlier this school year and i need some help refeshing.

1. At the end of the play, the Prince declines to punish either Capulet or Montague. What have Capulet and Montague learned from the deaths of Romeo and Juliet?

2. Explain at least two examples of dramatic irony in Romeo and Juliet. How does SHakespeare use dramatic irony to communicate a theme?

3. Pip's snobbish and pretentious behavior in the beginning and middle of Great Expectations creates a rather low opinion of him in the reader's mine. However, in the concluding chapters Pip redeems himself, rapidly riding in the estimation of the reader. Choose three incidents that contribute to Pip's moral regeneration. Then, write an expository essay explaining how the incidents contribute to Pip's growth into a good man. ( you don't need to write the expository essay just give me some ideas)
I ONLY NEED HELP ON NUMBER 3 NOW !! PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ME !!

Please anyone that has read these books please help me out. I really need a good grade on my english exam so i can get my A. That would help me get in my advanced class next year. I still can't belive my teacher thinks i remember the books sooo well. :@

Yes i know this is a new post by me but I NEED help please. I beg you people with all my heart. I will be internally greatful to anyone who helps me out even the slightest bit. so anyone young and old who have read them give me you insight

1. Hatred is bad basically. They end the fued and try to make peace. They lost their children though

2.
-There was a quarantine that prevented Friar John from reaching Mantua where Romeo was banished to.
-This then led to him not knowing about Juliet faking he death and then he killed himself for her.

Wow, oDavido!

thanks oDavido that really helped. Now i just really need help on the last one.

oooo i had to do this.. but i had different essay questions. but still i'll help
1.hatred is bad because in the end they lost one's that they loved (romeo, juliet, paris, and lady capulet. hey its an irony everyone dies)
2.first of all you need to know what irony is.. its like someone who is noble(high in social standing) goes through something bad which makes everyone else feel, if something bad like that happened to the noble person imagine how bad it would be for them. yea so both famlies in R&J were set high in social standing so pretty much fall in love ppl die have a few cries and bam he expressed the theme of hatred through dramatic irony. get it? i suggest you read that slowly i would be confused too.
3. your on your own on this one buddy

yes I did read Rand J but not Great Expectations. I suggest spark or cliff notes.

1. At the end of the play, the Prince declines to punish either Capulet or Montague. What have Capulet and Montague learned from the deaths of Romeo and Juliet?They have learned that they have spent too much time fighting each other, and not enough time on what's important. (family)

2. Explain at least two examples of dramatic irony in Romeo and Juliet. How does SHakespeare use dramatic irony to communicate a theme?
1-Juliet drinks the potion Friar Lawrence gives her, and seems like she is dead for 42 hours. With this said, she is not dead but is given the look she is. Her family thinks she is dead, but we know it's not true.
2-Juliet tells Capulet that she will marry Paris, and she will obey him from now on. Capulet thinks she has changed, when in reality she wants to return home w/o punishment so she can fake her death. We know she does not want to marry Paris or obey her father.

stuff I found on spark notes :)


Pip - The protagonist and narrator of Great Expectations, Pip begins the story as a young orphan boy being raised by his sister and brother-in-law in the marsh country of Kent, in the southeast of England. Pip is passionate, romantic, and somewhat unrealistic at heart, and he tends to expect more for himself than is reasonable. Pip also has a powerful conscience, and he deeply wants to improve himself, both morally and socially.


As a bildungsroman, Great Expectations presents the growth and development of a single character, Philip Pirrip, better known to himself and to the world as Pip. As the focus of the bildungsroman, Pip is by far the most important character in Great Expectations: he is both the protagonist, whose actions make up the main plot of the novel, and the narrator, whose thoughts and attitudes shape the reader’s perception of the story. As a result, developing an understanding of Pip’s character is perhaps the most important step in understanding Great Expectations.
Because Pip is narrating his story many years after the events of the novel take place, there are really two Pips in Great Expectations: Pip the narrator and Pip the character—the voice telling the story and the person acting it out. ****ens takes great care to distinguish the two Pips, imbuing the voice of Pip the narrator with perspective and maturity while also imparting how Pip the character feels about what is happening to him as it actually happens. This skillfully executed distinction is perhaps best observed early in the book, when Pip the character is a child; here, Pip the narrator gently pokes fun at his younger self, but also enables us to see and feel the story through his eyes.
As a character, Pip’s two most important traits are his immature, romantic idealism and his innately good conscience. On the one hand, Pip has a deep desire to improve himself and attain any possible advancement, whether educational, moral, or social. His longing to marry Estella and join the upper classes stems from the same idealistic desire as his longing to learn to read and his fear of being punished for bad behavior: once he understands ideas like poverty, ignorance, and immorality, Pip does not want to be poor, ignorant, or immoral. Pip the narrator judges his own past actions extremely harshly, rarely giving himself credit for good deeds but angrily castigating himself for bad ones. As a character, however, Pip’s idealism often leads him to perceive the world rather narrowly, and his tendency to oversimplify situations based on superficial values leads him to behave badly toward the people who care about him. When Pip becomes a gentleman, for example, he immediately begins to act as he thinks a gentleman is supposed to act, which leads him to treat Joe and Biddy snobbishly and coldly.
On the other hand, Pip is at heart a very generous and sympathetic young man, a fact that can be witnessed in his numerous acts of kindness throughout the book (helping Magwitch, secretly buying Herbert’s way into business, etc.) and his essential love for all those who love him. Pip’s main line of development in the novel may be seen as the process of learning to place his innate sense of kindness and conscience above his immature idealism.
Not long after meeting Miss Havisham and Estella, Pip’s desire for advancement largely overshadows his basic goodness. After receiving his mysterious fortune, his idealistic wishes seem to have been justified, and he gives himself over to a gentlemanly life of idleness. But the discovery that the wretched Magwitch, not the wealthy Miss Havisham, is his secret benefactor shatters Pip’s oversimplified sense of his world’s hierarchy. The fact that he comes to admire Magwitch while losing Estella to the brutish nobleman Drummle ultimately forces him to realize that one’s social position is not the most important quality one possesses, and that his behavior as a gentleman has caused him to hurt the people who care about him most. Once he has learned these lessons, Pip matures into the man who narrates the novel, completing the bildungsroman.

Thanks a lot to anyone who has helped
anyone out there read Great Expectations ?

the post above you is all about it and Pip. Sorry the starred word is the authors last name :)

i know about pip and all but what i need is ideas about three incidents the contribute to his moral regeneration.

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/greatex/

try looking here :)

Anyone else have any help for number three ?? That is all i need now