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?Great Expectations Essay
Topic: Why is Great Expectations called Great Expectations?
Jennifer Shupak

There is an old cliché that cautions readers not to "judge a book by its cover", but rather,
by its contents. While this piece of advice may indeed be true, one could ask if the same is true of
judging a book by its title. The title of a book is in many ways indicative, not only of its contents,
but perhaps more important, of its author's message. A title serves to inspire the reader's interest,
while at the same time, to convey its central theme. Charles Dickens' decision to entitle, what has
become his most famous and celebrated work, Great Expectations, was a wise one, for it
continues to communicate the book's powerful and relevant theme, over a century after it was
first published. The book's title, Great Expectations, expresses the central theme of the novel,
which is that of its characters' grand and often misguided expectations of what will deliver......

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