Great Expectations Final Flashcards
what does the Satis house represent
how it doesn’t satisfy
what do the gardens at satis house represent
how being rich isn’t a paradise
what does the mist represent?
How sad and gloomy Pip was. The weather helps with the mood.
What does Jaggers represent?
The judicial system
What do the stopped clocks represent?
the time when Miss Havisham’s life “ended”
What does Joe represent?
Moral goodness
What does Pumblechook represent?
The part of the rising middle class that Dickens hated
What does the name Pip represent?
Pip starts the same as it ends. The “I” part is where Pip had is expectations and was selfish.
How often is Pip happy in the book?
Almost never (especially when he is with Estella).
Describe Abel Magwitch
Magwitch is a victim of circumstance, he starts out dishonest, and after his first experience with Pip he changes his whole outlook on life.
Describe Joe
“A sort of Hercules in strength and in weakness,” he is honest, loving, hardworking, and represents moral goodness.
Describe Mrs. Joe (Georgiana)
Mrs. Joe is abusive toward Pip and Joe. She took in Pip when he was orphaned. She is a social climber. She was attacked by Orluck and was paralyzed and couldn’t talk until she eventually died.
Describe Pumblechook
Fish mouth, dull eyes, sandy hair, toady, represents the part of the rising middle class that Dickens hates.
Describe Compeyson
Compeyson is the second convict that Pip saw on the marshes. He conned Miss Havisham by working with her half brother Arther. Compeyson was killed by Magwitch on the water.
Describe Miss Havisham
Miss Havisham is old, she wears most of her wedding clothes. She was stood up at her wedding by Compeyson. She stopped the clocks when she found out. That was where her life “ended.” She adopted and raised Estella to break men’s hearts.
Describe Mr. Wopsle
Mr. Wopsle was a church clerk. He would have been a church minister if he was of a higher social class. He was a bad actor, which showed what Dickens thinks of religion. He quit clerking to become an actor. He frequently messed up lines and was basically a bubble head.
Describe Herbert Pocket
Herbert was the pale young man who challenged Pip to a fight. Later he becomes good friends with Pip. Pip paid money to help Herbert’s business. Herbert’s girlfriend is Clara. Later Pip works with Herbert and they moved to Cairo.
Describe Pip’s story
Pip was a young orphan who was raised by his sister and by Joe and had an encounter with a convict when he was young. He was invited to entertain Miss Havisham and he met Estela there. He had a crush on her but was never happy with her. Later Pip receives Great Expectations and moves to London with Jaggers. He lived in varying degrees of unhappiness. Near the end of the story he finds out that Magwitch (the convict he had an encounter with)was his benefactor. He then refused to use the money he was offered, but he tried to hide Magwitch. Magwitch was discovered and Pip tried to get him to safety in another country. Pip failed and the police took Magwitch, who died in jail. At that point Pip lost his expectations he became very ill. Joe helped him out then. Pip decided to work with Herbert, and they moved to Cairo.
Describe Estela
Estela was about Pip’s age. She’s the daughter of Magwitch and Clara. She was removed from her family from Jaggers who was trying to save her from becoming a convict. Miss Havisham adopted her, and raised her to be cold and distant. Estela married Drummel, was abused, and became humble at the end of the book.
Describe Mathew Pocket
Mathew is a relative of Miss Havisham’s and tried to stop her from being conned by Magwitch. Miss Havisham freaked out and they lost communication, but she gave him lots of money from her will. Mathew was Pip’s tutor. He also really loves his wife
Describe the Pocket children
They were “tumbling up” and they wanted to pocket money
Describe Sara Pocket
Sara Pocket enjoys being told how good she is. She’s related to someone with a title and doesn’t have one because she married Mathew (but she feels like she desirves one). She wants to pocket money.
Describe Jaggers
He was Pip’s second guardian, but he only did that because he was paid to do it. He is extremely money driven and thinks that money is the best thing in the world. He is a lawyer and doesn’t care what the truth is as long as he gets paid. He represents Dickens view on the Judicial system because of those things. He is sickened by the thought of children falsely being tried,arrested, and/ or hanged and washes his hands after work every day because he feels guilty because of the filth he is involved in.
Describe Wemmick
Wemmik is Jaggers assistant. He acts differently at work than at his home. He marries Miss Skiffens. He treats people with dignity.
Describe Biddy
Biddy was Pip’s first teacher. She came over to help Mrs. Joe after she had been attacked. She was always fairly patient with Pip even when he was acting like he was above her.
Bently Drummel
He was a student at the same time and place as Pip and Startop. Drummel represents poor morals. He laughed at Startop when Startop tried to give him money. Jaggers described him as a spider. He married and abused Estela. He died from an accident relating to a hoarse that he treated cruelly.
Startop
Startop was a student at the same time and place as Pip and Drummel. Startop and Pip are fairly good friends. Startop helps row the boat for Magwitch.
Miss Skiffens
Miss Skiffens marries Wemmik. She also wears orange and green.
Orluk
Orluck represents how people become criminals. Orluck worked with Joe at the forge. Orluck got into an argument with Mrs. Joe and killed her because of it. Orluck had a crush on Biddy, Pip paid to keep him away from her and then Orluck tried to kill him.
Arther
Arther’s father gave him money and he blew through it fast. Arther was “cut out of the will” and sought out Compeyson, a con man, to get money from his half sister, Miss Havisham.
Mollie
Mollie thought that her husband, Magwithch, was involved with another lady and Mollie killed that lady. She then threatened to kill their daughter, Estela, to try to hurt Magwitch. Mollie was tryed, but Jaggers took the case and won. Mollie was scared that she would become like that again, so Jaggers hired her to be his servant.
Clara
Clara was Herbert’s girlfriend. She had an alcoholic father and lived in a boarding house. They hid Magwitch there at one point in the story.
