great expectations- themes Flashcards

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love

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love in different form, also contrasting

  1. love between men and women
    - Estella and Pip (Unrequited love)
    - Biddy and Joe (positive)
  2. love between friends
    - Herbert and Pip
    “Herbert, I shall always need you, because I shall always love you”
  3. love between parent and child
    - Joe and Pip
    - Miss Havisham and Estella
    “What have I done! What have I done!”
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Parent and children

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  1. Joe and Pip
    - ideal relationship betweem parent and child
  2. Magwitch and Estella
    - unrequited love of Magwitch
  3. Estella and Miss Havisham
    - abusive and unhealthy relationship
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Class

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Dickens suggests an idea that happiness doesn’t necessarily come from social status

  1. Higher class
    - presented as miserable (Miss Havisham, Compeyson)
    - contrasting to victorian thoughts
  2. Lower class
    - presented as content and happy (Joe, Pip childhood)
    - highlights that classes doesn’t matter
  3. Characteristics
    - suggests through Pip that perhaps higher classes changes person’s personality
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crime and justice

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  1. Is criminals ‘made’ by environment
    - Link to victorian context; cirminals and crime very common
    - criminals made because of circumstances rather than wickedness
  2. No money, no justice
    - Jaggers is lawyer
    - Molly is no sentenced due to Jaggers
    - Magwitch is sentenced
  3. how criminals were viewed
    - Jaggers washing hand; differentiating him with crime
    - wemmick taking Pip to prison; sees criminals as entertainment
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