Great Expectations Flashcards
Pip: initial respect
“Don’t cut my throat, sir”
“pitying his desolation”, “I am glad you enjoy it”
Pip: realises he is common
“coarse hands” and “common boots”
“vulgar appendages”
Pip: becomes gentleman through education, growing snobbery
“vain of my knowledge”
“modest patronage”
Pip: others treat him more respectfully
Joe: “Sir”
Biddy: “Mr Pip”
“servile” Pumblechook: “May I?”
Pip: snobbery
“ashamed of the dear good fellow” at Miss Havisham’s
Joe’s dialect: “your elth’s your elth”
“would have paid money” to keep him away
Pip: surrounded by criminality; guilt
“the pale young gentleman’s blood was on my head”
first “impression of the identity of things” is of Magwitch
Mrs Joe: convicts “always begin by asking questions”
crime is like a “stain”
“contaminated” by Newgate
Pip: Trabb’s boy demonstrates Pip’s distance
Satire/parody: “Don’t know yah!”
Pip: generosity towards Herbert
“only good thing I had done”
Appreciation of Magwitch’s love
heart “heavy and anxious at parting from him”
after capture: “my repugnance to him had all melted away”
wrote a “petition to the Home Secretary” => no longer ashamed
Pip: changed attitudes once he loses his fortune
Pumblechook: “ostentatious clemency”
Estella: cruel and cold
Repeatedly calls Pip “boy”
“scornful” as if a “queen”
“cold, careless smile”
Estella: beauty
Aptronym = star
“I admire her dreadfully”
“worshiping the very hem of her dress”
Estella: damage to Pip
“hard twist at my hair”
“never had one hour’s happiness in her society”
Estella: honesty to Pip
“deceive and entrap” others — “all of them but you”
Estella: damaged by Miss Havisham
“Who taught me to be hard?”
“You address nothing in my breast”
“nature formed within me”
Estella: softened by marriage
“friendly touch of the once insensible hand”
Joe: physical strength
“Hercules in strength”
Joe: uncomfortable at Satis House
“persisted in addressing me instead of Miss Havisham”
also uncomfortable at Barnard’s Inn (dropping hat) => parallels?
Joe: kindness, honesty
“mild, good-natured, sweet-tempered”
“you and me is ever friends”
blacksmith/goldsmith/partings welded together metaphor => more self-awareness than Pip
Joe: forgiveness
“I forgive you, if I have anythink to forgive”
Joe: literacy and learning
drunk father “hammered” Joe, a “drawback on my learning” => disadvantaged poor
“uncommon fond of reading” -> pretence
Pip’s “modest patronage” towards Joe => snobbery
Magwitch: animal imagery
“growled”
Magwitch: cannibalism
“young man”
“I’ll have your heart and liver out”
Magwitch: death imagery
“from among the graves”
“eluding the hands of the dead people”
Magwitch: shows love on marshes
“Something clicked in his throat” (shown love)
gives Pip a “look I didn’t understand”
takes blame for Pip stealing the pie
Magwitch: pathetic fallacy (on return)
“stormy and wet”
wind “assailed and tore” (personification) at the sound of the bells (religion)
=> gives Magwitch a gothic, supernatural presence
Magwitch: ghostly imagery (on return)
“footstep of my dead sister”
“voice from the darkness beneath”
Magwitch: thinks being a gentleman is about money
“a diamond all set round with rubies”
Magwitch: physical effect of his return on Pip
“room began to surge and turn”
=> reminiscent of first meeting
=> also turns Pip’s life upside-down
