English Points and Quotes Flashcards
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Discuss Pips relationship with Joe
“ever the best of friends”
“Joe is a dear good fellow”
“a new admiration of Joe that night”
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Discuss Pip’s wanting to be blacksmith
“should roll up my shirt sleeves”
for quite some time, Pip did work as a blacksmith
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Pip visits Satis house and falls in love with Estella
“I loved her simply because I found her irresistible”
“I thought of the beautiful young Estella”
“Miss. Havishams intentions toward me”
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After visiting Satis House, Pip feels ashamed of himself and Joe
“my course hands and common boots”
“they had never troubled him before but they trouble me now”
“I wish my boots weren’t so thick nor my hands so coarse”
“I would of more ashamed of home than ever”
“not with pleasure, I was bound to him by so many ties”
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Discuss how since moving to London, Pip is still unhappy
“loneliest I had ever known”
“rather ugly, crooked, narrow dirty”
“always more or less miserable”
“Constantly enjoying ourselves, a skeleton of truth that we never did”
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Pip finds out the real identity of his benefactor and struggles weather or not to embrace him or not
“I lived rough that you should live smooth”
“the repugnance with which I shrank from him”
“repugnance to Magwitch had all melted away”
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Discuss Pip remorse for his treatment of Joe
“tell me of my ingratitude”
“don’t be so good and me”
“there was no change whatever in Joe”
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Discuss how Pip realizes a satisfactory life is one where he isn’t attempting to conform to social pressures
“I thought all that countryside more beautiful and peaceful by far than I had ever known”
“awakened a tender emotion in me”
Thesis
In pursuit of an uncommon life, one may conform to the oppressive shackles of societal expectations due to feelings of dissatisfaction in their current life, resulting in conflicting values; it is until one disregards past societal pressures that they can embrace the fullness of life
