Great Expectations
- Created by: Amanda Cufley
- Created on: 20-05-17 19:32
A novel
- bringing about change --> justice & punishment, characters on both sides of law
- loneliness --> image of graves
- Gothic --> 'gibbet', 'row of long angry, red lines'
- kindness --> "I am glad you enjoyed it"
- Mrs Joe --> exaggerated view of role played in upbringing 'It's bad enough to be a blacksmith's wife without being your mother', apron: 'impregnable' with 'pins and needles' symbolise cold, sharp manner
- first person narrative
- absurd way Pip jumps at every sound: 'I thought I heard the file still going; but it was only a sheep bell', contrast between file & sheep bell creates humour
- Joe --> Pip begins to learn to read reminds Joe of own troubed childhood, tolerant of wife 'your sister is a fine figure of a woman', does not want to find himself behaving like own father, does not condemn father for years of brutality, insists man had good 'hart', Dickens presenting Joe as tolerant & forgiving, Pip admires Joe, could be argued this experience plays part in Pip's later forgiveness for mistreatment by Miss Havisham & Mrs Joe
- relationship between Pip & Miss Havisham complex & ambiguous
- Miss Havisham motivated by misery & humiliation
- Estella instrument of revenge
- Pip feels ignorant & resents simple upbringing
- Dickens deliberately vague about Miss Havisham's past typical of writing style, secrets & mysteries
• Pip --> elaborate story about visit
• two pounds, large amount
B mysterious stranger acquaintance of Magwitch Dicken's way of developing different plots that take reader through novel
C power of money to change Pip's behaviour is common theme
- Satis House --> physical representation of Miss Havisham's devestated mind & reminder of how greed & selfishness can ruin lives
- Pip shows affinity to strangers
- Miss Havisham --> 'feast…
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