Great Expectations - Pip Flashcards
What sort of development does Pip go through?| starts with B
Bilsdungroman - he develops as a character
What struggles does Pip face?
- Feeling common / class struggle
- Moral dilemas linking to legal punishment
- Estella’s emotional abuse/unavailibility in the face of his love
- Jealousy of Drummle
Who raised Pip?
His sister Mrs Joe and Joe Gargery - sister’s husband
What trouble shaped Pip face in early childhood?
Meeting Magwitch in the cemetery and facing a mental dilema of guilt with fear of legal punishment for stealing
What 2 things encourage Pip’s becoming as a gentleman?
His love for Estella encouraged by Miss Havisham + His fortune he comes into
How does Pip show SYMPATHY?
He helps Magwitch, sympathises for Miss H, worries for Joe and helps Herbet
What does the opening scene of the novel show the reader about Pip?
He is kind and empathetic towards Magwitch despite his fear - he thinks about what it is like for the convict and his needs rather than feeling for himself first
How does Pip show PASSION?
He stands up to what he believes in, helps his friend Herbert while he struggles for money, attempst to save Magwitch, stands up to Drummle, his intense love (obsession) for Estella
What quote of Pip’s shows obsession with Estella? What does this show?
“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be” - shows that he knows he is irrational and loves her dispie this, he goes against all logic
How does Pip show UNREALISM?
Pip has romanticised views of himself and his future and often daydreams about them - he indulges in fanatsy
How does Pip’s character relate to Dickens?
- Hard Upbrining- His father was imprisoned for debt and at one stage Dickens had to work in a factory – something of which he was ashamed for the rest of his life
- Dickens raised his social position through self-education; this is also something which Pip does in the novel.
what key quotes show shame of Pip’s uneducation and common class background?
“I was much more ignorant than I had considered myself last night, and generally that I was in a low-lived bad way.”
“I am afraid I was ashamed of the dear good fellow — I know I was ashamed of him.”
“deeply revolving that I was a common labouring-boy; that my hands were coarse; that my boots were thick”
What page is key for Pip’s first realisation at being ‘common?’
pg 62
What page shows Estella’s cruelty for Pip and Pip’s reflection/foreshadowing of his obsession for Estella and the emotional toll of it?
pg 82
What quotes show embarrasment of Joe?
“I am afraid I was ashamed of the dear good fellow”
“Not with pleasure, though I was bound to him by so many ties; no; with considerable disturbance”
“His clumsy manner”
