Read the passage.
which theme emerges in the passage?
In this passage, set in England during the 1800s, the narrator is invited into the home
of Miss Havisham, a wealthy and unusual woman.
Physical beauty is fleeting.
from Great Expectations
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2. Maintaining social status is crucial.
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3. Hard work leads to success and riches.
Which two details from the passage develop the
theme?
1. "Some bright jewels sparkled on her neck
and on her hands" (Paragraph 1)
She was dressed in rich materials-satins, and lace, and silks-all of
white. Her shoes were white. And she had a long white veil dependent from
her hair, and she had bridal flowers in her hair, but hair was white. Some
bright jewels sparkled on her neck and on her hands, and some other jewels
lay sparkling on the table. Dresses, less splendid than the dress she wore,
and half-packed trunks, were scattered about. She had not quite finished
dressing, for she had but one shoe on-the other was on the table near her
hand-her veil was but half arranged, her watch and chain were not put on
and some lace lay with those trinkets, and with her handkerchief, and
gloves, and some flowers, and a Prayer-book, all confusedly heaped about the
looking-glass.
It was not in the first few moments that I saw all these things, though
saw more of them in the first moments than might be supposed. But I saw
that everything within my view which ought to be white, had been white long
ago, and had lost its lustre, and was faded and yellow. I saw that the bride
within the bridal dress had withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and
had no brightness left but the brightness of her sunken eyes. I saw that the
dress had been put upon the rounded figure of a young woman, and that the
figure upon which it now hung loose, had shrunk to skin and bone
2. "her watch and chain were not put on, and
some lace
lay with those trinkets"
(Paragraph 1)
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3. "It was not in the first few moments that
saw all these things, though I saw more of
them in the first moments than might be
supposed." (Paragraph 2)
4. "I saw that the bride within the bridal dress
had withered like the dress" (Paragraph 2)
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens)
5. "no brightness left but the brightness of her
sunken eyes" (Paragraph 2)