Great Expectations Part 3 Test Flashcards
Pip, his sister, and Joe are lower individuals.
Class
Being this way basically means knowing how to act in polite society.
Gentility
Pip desires to be a gentleman.
Ambition
One of the driving forces of the novel is a study of how people make themselves into the people they want to be.
Individualism
The injustices of the justice system were a hot topic for writers in the 19th century England.
Crime and Punishment
John Wemmick, Jaggers’ clerk, is an advocate of “portable property.”
Capitalism
Many of the characters in Great Expectations keep these. Some of them are dark and terrible. Some of them have to do with identity.
Secrets
is the prime motivation behind much of Pip’s actions.
Love
No matter what happens to Pip and no matter where his fortunes take him, this can’t be broken. He can’t forget Joe at the forge, or his sister, or even Biddy.
Family
The coincidence in Great Expectations are too numerous to count and even defy belief at some points. At the same time, some characters, including Pip, have a belief in a sort of unchangeable _____________.
Destiny/Coincidence
Miss Havisham is a lady, with a genteel family.
Class
He has a very strong opinion on the strength and nature of this. He believes that he might awaken something in Estella if given the chance.
Love
Everyone working in Jaggers’ office has strong appreciation for the power of money.
Capitalism
Because Pip’s fortune comes out of nowhere, he experiences setbacks in his development – namely, getting deep into debt and wasting much of his time. Only later does he really engage in some serious self-reflection.
Individualism
also includes being courteous, considerate, and doing the right thing when it’s called for. It also means a certain level of sophistication that is separate from money or class. In other words, a person might be very wealthy and not this way.
Gentility
The convict, for example, doesn’t let Pip know who he really is, and Miss Havisham keeps her past a mystery.
Secrets
The lawyer Jaggers exemplifies how justice is in the eye of the beholder, or possibly the highest bidder.
Crime and Punishment
Common people stay common and wealthy people stay wealthy, or so it seems. However, it’s clear by the novel’s end that nothing in the world can ever be certain.
Destiny/Coincidence
In Great Expectations, this is almost a kind of destiny. This is true for everyone in the novel.
Family
Through the course of the novel, Pip goes through a cycle of disdaining his simple heritage to recognizing the superficial nature of ______ distinctions.
Class
The greedy members of the Pocket family lust after Miss Havisham’s wealth. Pumblechook wants to expand his business. Herbert looks about him for a better, more profitable situation.
Ambition
Other people have different ideas about what it means to be this way. Some think that having good manners alone makes one better than common people.
Gentility
In addition, hard work, honesty, and a little luck can override what on the surface looks like hard reality.
Destiny/Coincidence
Some characters are happy with the hand that’s been dealt them. That seems to be part of the moral of the story: unearned good fortune isn’t good fortune at all if you’re not a decent human being underneath.
Ambition
He knows in his rational mind that his pursuit of Estella is foolish and doomed, yet he continues. There are other kinds (as in Herbert and Pip) and family are both prominent themes.
Love
As with other Dickens’ novels, Great Expectations highlights the faulty and damaging nature of distinctions in a civilized society.
Class
Another example of this motif is Abel Magwitch. He leaves his life of crime when he’s exiled and becomes a prosperous farmer.
Individualism
The punishments for seemingly things like debt, are way out of proportion. Dickens is showing readers how society’s institutions, such as England’s flawed justice system, act without thought or humanity.
Crime/Punishment
For the greedy branch of the Pocket family, they likewise see people as means to an end.
Capitalism
As a child, Pip lives two lives – a secret life in the company of Estella and Miss Havisham, and his real life with Joe and his sister.
Secrets
The relationships become more significant than power or money. When they have strife, the consequences are long lasting and sometimes irreparable.
Family
Pip learns gradually that innocence and guilt are not such simple concepts as he used to believe.
Crime/Punishment
While in some respects money does equal power, the novel makes it clear that integrity and character are more important than a bank balance. For example, Pip must suffer a fall from his high mode of living before realizing the things that matter most of all.
Capitalism
In the end, all of them must come out for human relationships to grow and be healthy.
Secrets
When they come together for a common cause, disaster can be averted.
Family
Instead, character traits – honor, faith, & love are the more important aspects of personhood.
Class
What were Magiwitch’s last words?
“I don’t complain of none, dear boy.”
What came out of Magwitch’s death?
Dickens said the law almost forced Provis to be a criminal. The parable contrasted self-righteousness and self-importance with humility and admitting ones own sins. It points out the virtues of the ladder and these virtues Provis himself possessed. Though Provis was never a gentleman, he died peacefully as himself. He is reunited with Estella through Pip’s generosity.
whose generosity is boundless and is the only on win the book that does not hold a grudge
Joe
Compeyson chose crime by ________. Magwitch committed crimes to __________.
choice; survive
Why was Orlick bitter?
because he took the beating of Pip, Pip got between he and Biddy, and he was fired from Satis house
After Magwitch and Compeyson fought
Pip was no longer worried about his reputation as a gentleman. To not break Magwitch’s heart, he did not tell him he had lost the “crown”/possessions. Pip tries to make things right by being kind and giving.
Magwitch handed over _________ for _________
freedom; revenge
the law has no
concious
Who hallucinated of people the wronged/loved
Arthur and Pip
When Pip decides to tell Biddy that he loves her
His moral development is complete. He recognizes his own errors and values internal rather than superficial worth.
____ does not feel Pip need to give all the details to his past. This parallels with Jaggers
Joe
follow your ______ ad protect those you _______ ; compassion and generosity
conscious; love
Who was the last person before Pip to ask for forgiveness
Miss Havisham
Joe and Biddy’s family
was the first functional family in the novel with two parental figures. Pip is a part of this family and does not feel he needs to improve himself or leave his commonness behind.
____________ has given Estella a human heart
suffering
Estella has acquired _______ and _______ through suffering
humanity and integrity
The ending is
unlear or ambiguous
Does Pip describe Magwitch as the “dreaded visitor”
yes
Is Herberts first plan of action with magwitch to get him out of England
Yes
Is Herberts first plan of action with magwitch to get him out of England
Yes
Does Ms. Havisham nurture pips delusions in order to get revenge
Yes
Does Clara think Pip is a bad influence on Herbert’s finances?
Yes
Is mrs whimple the only person, other than PIP, that knows about Herbert and Clara’s engagement?
Yes
Does the vengeful part in miss Havershan die as her faded wedding dress burns away?
Yes
Does Pip feel being misremembered is far more terrible than death itself?
Yes
Does Dickens portray the law to seem as if it forced magwitch to become a criminal?
Yes
Does PIP leave behind arrogance and untruthfulness as he returns home to Joe and Biddy?
Yes
Is the only good thing pip considers to have done after receiving his expectations
Taking the cheque to miss skidding to help Herbert
Molly is a
Wild beast tamed
Is the name of Clara’s father
Mr. Bill Barley
The two characters pip begged Miss Havisham to take care of and not categorize with her other relatives
Matthew pocket and Herbert pocket
The location where wemmick heard rumors about compeyson a whereabouts
New gate prison
Two characters who believe that the whole truth may not be the most generous course of action
Jaggers and Joe
When you say you love me, I know what you mean, as a form of words; but nothing more.
Estella
My Lord, I have received my sentence of death from the Almighty, but I doubt to yours.
Able magwitch
Here you sir. The lady won’t ride today; the weather won’t do. And I don’t dine, because I’m going to die at the ladies.
Bentley Drummle
I am not all stone. But perhaps you can never believe me, now, if there’s anything human in my heart?
Miss Havisham
I will never stir from your side when I’m suffered to be near you. Please God, I will be as true to you, as you have been to me!
PIP
Where is the portable property certainly could’ve been saved. That’s the difference between the property and the owner, don’t you see?
Wemmick
Not wistful to intrude I have deported for you are well again dear pit and will do better without. PS ever the best of friends
Joe
It’s my wedding day!
Buddy
Now handle my boy, will you come with me to Cairo?
Herbert
You have a return transport here. That’s the man, wrapped in the cloak. His name is able Magwitch otherwise provis. I apprehend that man, and call upon him to surrender, and you to assist.
Compeyson
Essay:
“Oh Lord be merciful to him, a sinner”
What is Dickens trying to contrast with in this parable? what virtues are highlighted in this parable? what is pips generosity lead to?
This parable contrast self-righteousness and self-importance with humility and admitting one’s own sins. The virtues in this latter are ones Provis himself possessed. Although Provis never became a gentleman, he died peacefully as himself. Pips generosity reunited Estella to provis in a sense.
Review the essay of Miss Havishams conversation with Pip
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