Wemmick's split personality has ties with the phrase "keeping work and pleasure seperate is the key to success." If he is a collector, how ruthless can he be to someone who he feels sorry for? And how can he keep his mind on work if he is thinking about home life? Therefore, he washes the good side away and simply allows every flaw he has take over, so he can go forth wothout the hindrance of emotion. Dickens is trying to show the cruel air of buisnessmen in London, as they will go so low as to take rings from a widow, the last memory of a lonely soul's former companion, without regret or a second thought. This is all part of the main character, Pip's, experiences in London. Dickens is portraying just how much of a scummy bunch of soulless, compassionless theives and murderers the citizens of London were. Even if Wemmick is really a nice person at home, a man's actions define who he is, and no matter how pure he is at home, it will never make up for the sins he commits when he is at work.
Wemmick, while trying to seperate thoughts of home, instead strangles off his good side, and it even starts to affect him at home, as evidenced when he talks happily about the rings that adorn the chain on his watch, saying despite not beind worth much, they were still a possession he could take as payment, even from the poorest of the poor. Dickens is still communicating the idea of the citizens of London's impurity. Even though Wemmick has a good side, it may never surface again if he continues supressing it so cruelly.
I like your varying sentence lengths, You do, however, analyze too much about what Dickens is trying to say. Maybe you could next time try giving a more unique view of what you think, one that we haven't yet discussed in class. Discussion is good for comprehension of material; in my opinion it isn't good for formulating theses. Also, try making another writing goal: to make real life connections to the text; it will help you with personal analysis and view without saying "Dickens is trying to say, Dickens is trying to say, Dickens is trying to say, etc." Sorry for all the criticism, but its easier to find mistakes in something almost flawless than something with so many errors it's overwhelming:) Nice work!
ReplyDeleteThis was interesting to read, because it contrasted form the majority of the essays, which were about how his two different sides were a good thing. You did a good job using vocabulary and, as Jacob said, good variety of sentance legnths, to prove that point.
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Very nice. I liked how you wrote with passion about the topic; I could just hear your voice as you described your contempt for the people who treat widows so poorly. Nicely done.
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