Fathers Flashcards
HF 1
“You’re educated, too, they say - can read and write. You think you’re better’n your father now, don’t you, because he can’t? I’LL take it out of you.”
HF 2
“he said courts mustn’t interfere and separate families if they could help it; said he’d druther not take a child away from its father.”
GE 1
“Look’ee here, Pip. I’m your second father. You’re my son - more to me nor any son. I’ve away money, only for you to spend.”
GE 2
“here you has afore you, side by side, two persons…; one the younger, well brought up, who will be spoken to as such; one the elder, ill brought up, who will be spoken to as such.”
Natalie McKnight
Dickens has a “tendency to make his most appealing male parents non-biological fathers” or he features “bad biological fathers as central the plot, themes and structures of the works”