Great Expectations Key Themes
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- Great Expectations Key Themes
- Love and Loyalty
- Pip's unrequited love for Estella is the main story of the book, and brings him only misery
- Miss Havisham's life is ruined when the man she loves jilts her on her wedding day
- Magwitch loves Pip through gratitude
- Estella marries Bentley Drummle without loving him, and suffers for it
- Growing up
- The reader meets Pip when he is seven, and follows his life until he meets Estella again (after 11 years apart) at the age of 35
- The proper term for this kind of story is the German word bildungsroman
- Focal points in his development are: Estella, Magwitch and, Neglecting Joe and his family.
- Society
- What made a gentlemen? Breeding and Fortune
- When we first meet Pip, he is far from a gentleman
- Joe is more of a gentlemen than most in the novel, but of a much lower class
- Control
- Mrs Joe and Pumblechook control Pip when he is sent to Satis House and make sure he is grateful
- Pip is beaten when he returns from the graveyard after meeting Magwitch
- Miss Havisham has control over Estella and teaches her to hate men because she was jilted. She does this to carry out her revenge on the male sex
- Love and Loyalty
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