Great Expectations Essay

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Any time you visit the art museum, you are likely to stumble upon the picture of the Campbell’s soup can created by Andy Warhol. It is bright, obnoxious, and probably one of the odder pieces in the museum. The series of pictures is prominently placed in the one of the main rooms in the museum. This piece really caught my eye because of the bright pinks and greens that are used in the piece and the fact that it’s a painting of a soup can. Andy Warhol created a series of these soup cans in their traditional colors and made one for every different type of soup that Campbell’s made. He eventually made many different pictures of the soup cans substituting the traditional colors for brighter colors. One observation that Warhol made about America was that "America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you know the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke too."

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“He regarded me with a look of affection that made him almost abhorrent to me again, though I had felt great pity for him.”(pg. 351) Pip thinks about his convict this after he learns that his benefactor is not Miss Havisham, but the convict from so long ago that he had forgotten, but who had not forgotten him. Pip’s initial reaction to this is not one of love, but one of disgust. He had prided himself on being the recipient of Miss Havisham’s money, only to learn that he was in fact receiving money from a convict, a member of the lowest level of society. Pip treats the convict with the arrogance of a gentleman, forgetting that it was the convict who had made him the gentleman. The convict loves Pip like a son and showers him with money, and Pip just looks at him in disdain and just takes the money as his.