THEMES IN VOLUME 1 OF GREAT EXPECTATIONS
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- Created on: 07-06-16 15:48
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- THEMES IN GE (VOL 1)
- LOVE
- Pip and Biddy
- Pip and Estella
- Love= warmth- Joe, not cold hearted Estella and Mrs Joe
- Miss H broken heart and body/mind
- Joe's genuine love for Pip
- Motif of food- love and compassion
- PRIDE AND ENVY
- Pip's pride grows to equal Estella's
- Pip being envious of higher class
- Pocket's greed and envy of Miss H's wealth
- "You are envious, Biddy, and grudging"
- CRIME
- Poetic justice
- Seven deadly sins
- Mrs Joe's attack
- The convict- underclass
- Theft of the pie
- Pip's unnecessary guilt
- Orlick?
- EDUCATION
- Joe educating Pip
- "And begun at A too, worked his way to Z"
- Joe educating Pip
- SOCIETY/CLASS/HIERARCHY
- "Course and Common"
- Motif of locks and keys/gates, preventing Pip from achieving a higher status
- Pip and Miss H
- "Yes, Miss Havisham"
- Profession/ trade/or being part of gentry
- Miss H not wanting to see Mrs Joe, Pumblechoock
- Pip feels dissatisfied in C14+ C17, feels disconnected
- HOME, FAMILY, CHILDHOOD
- Warping influence of bad adults on children- Estella and Pip
- Letting children grow- education, curiosity
- WEALTH AND MONEY
- Pip getting his suit
- "My first decided experience of the stupendous power of money"
- Miss Havisham- have- is-SHAM
- Pockets
- Miss H family come to devour her, waiting for her to die for her money
- Pockets
- "Sweltering pound notes"
- Pip's desire for wealth makes him feel dissatisfied
- Statis house- dissatisfied, gothic, irony
- Pip getting his suit
- LOVE
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