ModB

Question 1

Start of Vol.I (innocence/corruption)
juxtaposed
- highlights effect of consciousness
- informal language

Answer 1

“Pray don’t do it sir / wittles / file”

Question 2

inherent morals
- before destruction due to valuing status

Answer 2

“pitying his desolation / my friend”

Question 3

contrast (shift in tone)
- aligning to upper classes

Answer 3

“a gallon of condescension”

Question 4

patronises lower class, Magwitch becomes

Answer 4

“allied to shame…dead to me”

Question 5

Characterisation of ___ as an ____ ___ ___
- Satis house
- negatively impacts individual’s speech

Answer 5

“rejoiced that his hands were so coarse and boots were so thick”

Question 6

Start of Vol.II (corruption)
Metaphor
- inability to conceal origins
- consumption in upper class behaviour won’t change him
- inherent v. physical

Answer 6

“no varnish can hide the grain of wood and the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself”

Question 7

Haughty tone
- critiquing society obsession with appearance at cost of emotional/relational integrity

Answer 7

“what was fit company for you once, would be quite unfit company for you now”

Question 8

Start of Vol.III (redemption)
Comparative language
- criminal (lowest) v his treatment of Joe
- recognises inherent good
- challenges society

Answer 8

“saw in [Magwitch] a much better man than [he] had been to Joe”

Question 9

imagery
- creature v. humane
- importance of integrity / intrinsic worth

Answer 9

“repugnance to him had all melted away, and in the…shackled creature…only saw a man…who had…towards me with great constancy”

Question 10

juxtaposition
- then v. now

Answer 10

“thankless…ungenerous and unjust…now [he] honoured [Joe and Biddy who] were both so good and true” v. “felt impatient of [Joe] and out of temper with him”