Great Expectations Themes
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- Created on: 05-04-15 09:07
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- Themes
- Gentlemen & Gentle Men
- Pip learns as Satis house that he is nothing but a common labouring boy
- hence the life long pursuit to become a gentleman and win Estella
- Money seems to buy Pip the status of a gentleman
- earns respect from Trabb & Pumblechook but not from those who love him
- pip learns the habits of a Gentleman but does not behave Gentlemanly when Joe visits him
- Nor does he behave well to Trabbs boy
- Herbert Pocket & father have tactful instincts as Gentlemen (even though poor)
- Herbert corrects Pip on his behaviour
- Drummle clearly a stupid cruel man - though a gentleman in social terms
- Dickens shows that life of a Gentleman can be dissipated - corrupting Pips better instincts
- 'Brought up london gentleman' (Chap 39)
- Joe is an instinctivelygentle man
- 'a gentle christian man' (chap 57)
- Pip learns as Satis house that he is nothing but a common labouring boy
- respectability & crime
- because of his theft pip feels kinship with the convict
- pips stuggles for gentility are shadowed by his own sense of criminality
- ironic how his money/gentility does come from Magwitch (convict)
- more ironic how magwitch is Estellas father - he 'rose' for her when in reality she was socially beneath him
- when pip goes to london his past follows him
- ironic how his money/gentility does come from Magwitch (convict)
- Dickens shows that the riches and privileges of the few are gained by the exclusion and exploitation of the many
- Gentlemen & Gentle Men
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