Quotes Flashcards
‘I called myself Pip’ p.5
tries to choose/shape his own identity (same as Pi - wrote his name as ‘Pi Patel’ on the board p.22, however Pi is more assertive with it and Pip has his identity changed (Handel ironic as he wrote music called harmonious blacksmith - what Pip is trying to escape. Mr Pip by Jaggers).
‘Pip’ suggests development, vulnerability, insignificant
‘Mrs Joe Gargery’
her identity has become her husbands. reflection pf lack of women authority/identity. Links to ‘Georgiana Wife of the Above’ - less significant, defined by her relationship with her husband
p.8-9
Pip + convict (sense of bond)
pathetic fallacy
notices physical suffering
compassionate
‘who’s firing?’ p.15
shows naivety, innocence, young
‘having at that time to find out for myself what the expression meant’ p.9
reflection, shows narrator is older pip, more knowledgeable, change will happen
‘my boy’
convict + pip
surrogate father relationship, foreshadowing future events
bond, closeness
‘nothing that he wore then fitted him or seemed to belong to him’ p.23
identity formed through clothes, uncomfortable, doesn’t belong out of the forge, links to later in the novel
‘Joe(who was a good judge)’ p.34
wisdom, not intellectual but moral, compassionate, who Pip should be like
‘Joe took me on his back’ p.33
metaphorical as surrogate father
‘I took some wittles’ p.38
convict protects pip
‘He’s a gentleman’
resentment from Pip’s convict. Judges would favour higher status. He was treated unfairly by the higher class - foreshadows future revenge
‘I was much more ignorant than I had considered myself last night’ p.62
turning point. Estella changes Pip’s world view, reason for his change
‘coarse hands’ p.62
unrefined, labourer, hard-working, lower class
‘he is rather backward in some things’ p.138
Pip’s view on Joe has changed, snobbery, feels he is better than joe because of his education.
‘remove Joe into a higher sphere’ p.139
patronising, not his place to move Joe, SOCIAL CONTEXT - Victorian society don’t normally move classes- links to p.206 when joe changes his clothes and does not fit in. snob pip
‘you and me is not two figures to be together in London’ p.206
Victorian society, they are now of different social classes. Joe doesn’t want to embarrass pip
‘I am wrong in these clothes’ p.206
Joe knows he belongs in the forge, knows his place/social class and has no intention of bettering himself, knows Pip is judging him on his appearance.
‘my spirits may have been oppressed by the hot exhausted air’ p.152
LONDON - opposite to the utopia he was expecting, foreshadows shattering of his expectations
‘fur cap’ p.151
superfluous, wealth, materialistic, money, riches, opposite of what Pip is
‘great black dome’ p.152
ironic as church is supposed to be homely, religious but it is smeared with dirt - opposite of expectations
‘where people were publically whipped’ p.152
violence, death, sinister, dismal atmosphere
‘gave me a sickening idea of London’ p.152
opposite of pip’s expectations, dystopia, disappointment
‘if you’ll forgive me for having knocked you about’
Herbert is well-mannered, perfect qualities of a gentleman, represents what Pip should be like. teacher and moral guide. Dickens is suggesting that gentleman doesn’t have to be successful but happy and kind.
‘no varnish can hide the grain of the wood’ p.167
appearance vs reality/superficiality. varnish = clothes. sooner or later real person will be revealed, can’t be a fake gentleman - ironic as that is what pip is, foreshadows pip’s downfall.
