Great Expectations - Relationships

Question 1

Summarise Pips and Joe’s relationship

Answer 1

1. heartwarming
2. joe is a figure of love and kindness to Pip
3. Pip doesn’t return the love, and becomes snobby and posh
4. joe remains loyal and loving
5. relationship represents familial love and forgiveness.

Question 2

Summarise Pip and Magwitch’s relationship

Answer 2

1. Pip is terrified of Magwitch
2. Magwitch retuns as a secret benefactor
3. Pip goes from fear to compassion with him
4. The relationship challenges the notion of social class

Question 3

Quote about Pip and joe

Answer 3

Pip - “i wich Joe had been rather more gentleelly brought up”
Joe - “you can me is always friends”

Question 4

Quote about Pip and Magwitch

Answer 4

Pip - “i will never stir from your side”
Magwitch - “Look’ee here, Pip. i’m your second father”

Question 5

Summarise Pip and Estella’s relationship

Answer 5

1.unrequited love
2.Estella is cold and dismissive
3.pip is in love
4.Relationship filled with pain and longing
5.Highlights the destructive power of obsession

Question 6

Quotes for Pip and Estella

Answer 6

Estella - “I have no heart”
pip - “I loved her against reason…against happiness”

Question 7

Summarise Pip and Herbert’s relationship

Answer 7

1. Pure
2. Herbert is contrastingly honest and kind
3. Herbert is one of Pip’s closest friend in London
4. Friendship represents true friendship and loyalty

Question 8

Quotes for Pip and Herbert

Answer 8

Herbert - “Handel, my good fellow”
Pip - “I resolved to buy Herbert’s way into the partnership”

Question 9

Summarise Magwitch and Compeyson’s relationship

Answer 9

1.Complex, involved betrayal
2.Magwitch (lower class) was drawin into Compeyson’s schemes(upper class)
3.Once they were caught, compeyson got a lower sentence
4.This betrayal fuels Magwitches hate to him

Question 10

Summarise Pip and Jaggers’ relationship

Answer 10

1. Jaggers is professional and distant
2. he is wise and helps Pip through life
3. Represents the themes of law and order of Victorian society

Question 11

Quotes for Pip and Jaggers

Answer 11

Jaggers - “take nothing on looks;take everything on evidence”

Question 12

Summarise pip and Wemmick’s relationship

Answer 12

1.Shows Pips a different side of life through his compartmentalising - professional at work, warm at home
2.Represents the contrast between public and private personas in victorian Britain

Question 13

Wemmick and Pip Quotes

Answer 13

Wemmick - “the office is one thing, and private life is another”

Question 14

Summarise Miss Havisham and Estella’s relationship

Answer 14

1. Tragic and manipulative
2. Miss H adopts estella and uses her for revenge on men
3. this damages Estella’s ability to love and form relationships
4. represents manipulation, and emotional damage

Question 15

Quotes for estella and Miss H

Answer 15

Miss H - “Break their Hearts, my pride and hope”
Estella - “I am what you have made me … take the blame”

Question 16

Miss H and Pip relationship summary

Answer 16

1. Pip is used as a way for Miss H to get revenge
2. but at the end, there is a hint of remorse from Miss Havisham

Question 17

Quotes Miss H and Pip

Answer 17

Miss H - “What have i done!”
Miss H - “I stole her heart and put ice in its place”