A mutation is a change in DNA, the hereditary material of life. An organism's DNA affects how it looks, how it behaves, and its physiology. So a change in an organism's DNA can cause changes in all aspects of its life.
The Gothic in Great Expectations. Professor John Bowen considers how Dickens uses the characters of Magwitch and Miss Havisham to incorporate elements of the Gothic in Great Expectations. Great Expectations is not a Gothic novel in any simple sense. Like all of Dickensâs writings, and perhaps all writing, it belongs to more than one genre. At times it resembles a fairytale, at other times a realistic or a comic novel, at others a melodrama: most commonly, it blends together the qualities of several genres.
The last entry of the serialized novel Great Expectations is published on this day in 1861. The book had been serialized in Dickensâ literary circular, All the Year Round. The novel tells the story of young Pip, a poor orphan who comes to believe he will inherit a...