Great Expectations Flashcards
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What’s the name of the lawyer who helps Pip in London?
Mr Jaggers
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What two quotes suggest the autobiographical mode of the book also always a confessional form?
‘Let me confess’
‘I want forgiveness and direction far too much to be bitter with you.’
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In what way does Pip use the book as a confessional?
He’s seeking absolution from his sins – the first sin of stealing the food and then the consequential sins of arrogance, snobbery etc.
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What does Pip say in response to Miss Havisham’s request for forgiveness?
I want forgiveness and direction far too much, to be bitter with you.
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The quote about Miss Havisham’s death (when she’s on fire).
I saw her running at me, shrieking, with a whirl of fire blazing all about her.
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I want _______ and ______ far too much to be _______ with you.
forgiveness and direction far to much to be
bitter with you
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I saw her running at me ________, with a ________________.
I saw her running at me, shrieking, with a whirl of fire blazing all about her.
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What question shows Pip’s change in attitude towards Miss Havisham?
Could I not look upon on her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was
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What quote shows Miss Havisham as the gothic victim?
monstrous vanities that have been curses in this world.
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Quote about compassion towards Havisham.
Could I not look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was
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What does Pip say when he sees the new Pip?
‘I again?’
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What suggests Miss Havisham blurring the boundaries between seeking secular and divine absolution?
‘To see her with her white hair and worn face kneeling at my feet gave me a shock’
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What is the name of the technique Pip uses to separate the young and old versions of himself?
Self-othering
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The first description of Miss Havisham.
‘dressed in rich materials … all of white’ and ‘bright jewels sparkled on her neck’
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After describing her clothes and ‘bright jewels’, the description develops into what?
Everything white ‘had lost its lustre and was faded and yellow’
‘the bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress’
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Quote about Miss Havisham decaying with the dress.
‘the bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress’
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Everything white ‘had…
lost its lustre and was faded and yellow’
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Pip is what kind of narrator, who keeps the reader from all the information and gradually provides it.
A with-holding narrator.
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(I beg to observe…
that I think of myself with amazement when I recall the lies I told on this occasion.)
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Quote that shows an interjection in dashes.
’– as it now appears to me’
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Quote that shows an interjection in brackets.
(I beg to observe that I think of myself with amazement when I recall the lies I told on this occasion.)
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What is the purpose of temporal markers, such as the one in ‘–as it now appears to me’
Highlight the duality of narrative and character (old Pip and young Pip) and self-othering.
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How is prolepsis performed in the text?
The later voice of Pip performs his education, showing that he will achieve it.
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Example of bathos.
‘Brought up by hand’
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Why does listening to Miss Havisham’s confession give Pip power?
Because he has the power to either condemn or forgive.
But: ‘I want forgiveness and direction far too much, to be bitter with you.’
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What bracketed quote shows Pip allowing the next Pip to benefit from what he learnt?
(But I did not rumple his hair)
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What’s the quote where Pip takes Pip jr. to the graveyard?
‘I took him down to the graveyard and set him on a certain tombstone there’.
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In what way is Pip granted absolution?
By being allowed to teach the next Pip.
Old Pip haunts the narrative, wishing he could guide the younger version of himself (I beg to observe that I think of myself with amazement when I recall the lies I told on that occasion.) and at the end he can. His ghost is reconciled with the realised ability of his desire.
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Pip’s absolution comes in the form of a ghost of himself, but what does he say?
‘I again!’
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What is the last thing Estella says?
‘We shall continue to be friends apart.’
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What is the final line?
I saw no shadow of parting from her.
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Other than ‘I saw no shadow of parting from her’, what else does Pip say that shows his refusal to give Estella up?
You have always held your place in my heart.
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What quote shows Pip becoming disillusioned with his life?
There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, but a skeleton of truth that we never did.
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Pip to Estella at end: ‘You have always _____________ in my heart’.
You have always held your place in my heart.
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There was a ___________ that we were _______ enjoying ourselves, but _____________ that we never did.
There was a gay fiction among us that were were constantly enjoying ourselves, but a skeleton of truth that we never did.
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‘I was a blacksmith boy but yesterday;
I am – what shall I say I am – today?
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There was a gay fiction ______________ enjoying ourselves, but a skeleton __________________.
There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, but a skeleton truth that we never did.
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What quote shows Pip’s struggle with identity?
I was a blacksmith’s boy but yesterday; I am – what shall I say I am – today?
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What quote shows Dickens critiquing the facade of society?
‘The neighbours approved’ of Georgiana’s extravagant funeral arrangements.
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What’s Pip’s sister called?
Georgiana or Mrs Joe
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What quote assigns Joe to the simpleton stock figure?
one who recognised in Joe the village idiot.
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Description for the fairytale role of Miss Havisham.
she looked like the Witch of the place
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What quote shows Pip’s longing to be in a fairytale?
Do all the shining deeds of a young knight of romance, and marry the princess.
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What is Mr Pumblechook’s saying?
‘May I – may I?’
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Do all the __________ of a _____ knight of romance and________
Do all the shining deeds of a young knight of romance and marry the princess.
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What does Mr Wemmick call his house?
‘the Castle’
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What quote shows the juxtaposition between ‘the Castle’ and Mr Wemmick’s house as middle-class and ordinary?
‘a little wooden cottage in the midst of plots of garden’
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Do ___________ of a young knight _________, and
Do all the shining deeds of a young knight of romance and marry the princess.
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Mr Wemmick’s house is ‘a ___________ in the midst ________.’
a little wooden cottage in the midst of plots of garden
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Quote about the gothic elements of Mr Wemmick’s ‘Castle’.
‘queer gothic windows (by far the greatest part of the sham) and a gothic door, almost too small to get in at.’
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Quote about Miss Havisham as a witch.
‘she looked like the Witch of the place’
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‘queer gothic windows (_________), and a gothic for, ______’
(by far the greatest part of the sham)
almost too small to get in at.
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What quote shows the rural elements of Mr Wemmick’s ‘Castle’?
‘At the back, there’s a pig, and there are fowls and rabbits’
‘grow cucumbers’
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What is the quote about the clock in Mrs Havisham’s house?
Everything in the room had stopped, like the watch and the clock.
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What’s the name of Pip’s friend who owns the ‘Castle’?
Mr Wemmick.
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What phrase does Pip use to express that he believes Havisham intends Estella for him?
‘designed for me’
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What name (among others) does Magwitch call Pip?
‘my dear boy’
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What does Magwitch say that shows Pip’s gentlemanly status is due to him?
‘I made a gentleman on you. It’s me wot done it!’
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Quote about Magwitch and Pip and father and son.
‘I’m your second father. You’re my son’
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I made a gentleman on you…
It’s me wot done it.
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What phrase show Magwitch looking for Pip for guidance?
‘He looked most affectionately at me.’
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How is Magwitch first described?
‘A man with no hat, and with broken shoes, and with an old rag tied around his head’.
Magwitch is ‘a man with ___________ and with broken shoes and ________________________.
A man with no hat, and with broken shoes, and with an old rag tied around his head.
Critical material
Who said that ‘psychiatric writings on childhood were emerging in tandem with the great Victorian novels on childhood’?
Sally Shuttleworth
