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This 6 page paper critiques the last scene of two classic works, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and "Great Expectations."
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also help us to discover added dimensions that we might miss with a cursory reading. This paper considers in depth two excerpts from famous literary works: the end of the
novel Great expectations and the last few stanzas of Coleridges poem, The rime of the ancient mariner. Discussion Well turn first to Dickenss novel. The scene we are considering is
the last one in the book, when Pip and Estella meet again at Miss Havishams house. Pip is the narrator of the novel as well as its protagonist; he is
telling the reader his life story from his childhood through the present. Pips life has been complex and multi-layered; the one that concerns us here is that he was hired
by Miss Havisham to be an occasional companion for her niece Estella, and that Pip fell deeply in love with the girl. But Miss Havisham had raised Estella to be
deliberately cruel to men as a means of getting back at them for her own disappointment, and so Pips love for Estella is doomed. When they meet in this scene,
its by accident. They have both come back to the Havisham house at the same time. Its dilapidated now, in even worse shape than it was when Pip was first
brought there. Pip tells of this meeting in a calm voice, almost serene, but his powers of observation are acute. He describes the mist and the moonlight, and says that
the moon lit both the fog and Estellas tears. She fights them back and he says nothing. She is unaware that he knows shes crying, and instead asks if he
was wondering how the house came to be in such sad shape. When he says yes, she is able to tell him of her life since their last parting, how
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