Motifs in Great Expectations
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- MOTIFS IN GE
- FIRE
- To show Pip's guilt/conscience
- Joe's forge-love, warmth, safety
- Pumblechoock and Mrs Joe, bring in cold
- Miss Havisham- burnt
- TIME AND CLOCKS
- Importance of change
- Miss H, reluctance to move on
- Miss H birthday- symbolic, won't age
- Time passes in a strange fashion at Statis house
- So unchanging was the dull old house, the yellow light in the darkened room, the faded spectre in the chair by the dressing-table glass, that I felt as if the stopping of the clocks had stopped Time in that mysterious place, and, while I and everything else outside it grew older, it stood still. (17.2)
- Growing up and maturity
- 8:40
- SEEDS AND PLANTS
- Pip's growth
- Pip cannot grow under Mrs Joe's rule- prevents curiosity and learning
- Pumblechoock locks away seeds in a prison much like Pip's life
- Weedy plants in the garden
- "I had a feeling that Estella and I might presently begin to decay" chapter 11
- Pip's growth
- DARKNESS AND LIGHT
- Estella brings light to the darkness- but leading Pip to bad
- Darkness shows Pip's confusion
- Light isn't always good- things aren't always what they seem
- THE GOTHIC
- Repressed fears/dark desires- Miss H
- To scare/shock, add depth
- Draws attention to the dark shadows and hidden corners of society
- LOCKS AND KEYS
- Authority, power
- Gothic
- Crime, Jails, Criminals
- Barriers and gatekeepers- Estella, Statis House
- Emphasise social immobility and the secrets that lie at the heart of the novel- trapped
- Symbolise secrets and what is hidden
- THE MIST
- Reveals the truth
- Foreshadows something bad is going to happen in the novel
- Obscures the landscape and the truth
- Mist inside Statis House (Pg 89) obscuring the truth about Miss H and Estella
- FOOD AND EATING
- Brings people together
- Christmas Dinner
- Jaggers inviting Pip and Herbert over, Wemmick
- Sharing/Love
- Joe and Pip- bread
- Pip bringing the convict food
- Charity/goodness
- Decay and rot
- Brings people together
- FIRE
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