Relationships

Question 1

POINTS- Pip and Joe

Answer 1

Platonic- friends, father/son
Mutual respect and close bond
Begins to reject him to due insecurities (embarrassed)
Becomes to realise that his wealth has robbed him of his relationship with joe
After illness he regrets his treatment of joe

Question 2

QUOTES- Pip and Joe

Answer 2

“Ever the the of friends, aren’t we, Pip, old chap”
“No more than (his) equal”
“How common would she consider Joe”
“If (he) could have kept him away by paying money, (he) certainly would have paid money”
“Sir” “architerctooralooral”
“The falser he, the truer Joe; the answer he, the nobler Joe”

Question 3

CONTEXT- Pip and Joe

Answer 3

Relationship appeals to both victoria and modern day readers

Joe is effeminated by his affection for pip (switch of gender roles)

Question 4

POINTS- Pip and Estella

Answer 4

Pip epitomises Estella
She is why he wants to be a gentleman
Unhealthy obsession (See farewell)
Prevents him from experiencing true love
Pip’s lack of understanding of what love is (due to upbringing)
Delusion of expectations of marrying estella

Question 5

QUOTES- Pip and Estella

Answer 5

“You are part of my existence, part of myself”
“A beautiful and brilliant woman”
“Boy” “coarse hands and thick boots”
“You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line i have ever read, since i first came here, the rough common boy whose poor heart you wounded even then”

Question 6

CONTEXT- Pip and Estella

Answer 6

Dickens’ own guilt over his affair with Ellen Ternan and the breakup of his 20 year marriage

Question 7

POINTS- Pip and Biddy

Answer 7

Opposite of estella- kind, caring and gentle

Taught him how to read-education

Question 8

QUOTES- Pip and Biddy

Answer 8

“not beautiful- she was common, and could not be like Estella”

“The most obliging of girls”

Question 9

POINTS- Pip/Magwitch

Answer 9

Meet in graveyard- M is scary but pip takes pity
Both relate in the sense they are able vulnerable
Power changes from beginning to the end of the novel
Although pip rejects him at first, they form a bond

Question 10

QUOTES- Pip/Magwitch

Answer 10

“Look’ee here, Pip, I am your second father. You’re my son-more to me nor any son”

Question 11

CONTEXT-Pip/Magwitch

Answer 11

sympathy for prisoner- especially one who is portrayed as a victim of society
Dicken’s campaign for prison reform

Question 12

POINTS- Joe/Biddy

Answer 12

Fits traditional expectations of true love

Question 13

QUOTES- Joe/Biddy

Answer 13

“The best husband/wife in the whole world”

Question 14

POINTS- Estella/Miss H

Answer 14

Miss H is very controlling of Estella

She does not experience true love because she cannot

Question 15

QUOTES- Estella/Miss H

Answer 15

“avenge her (Miss Havisham’s) broken heart”
“I think she is very proud… i think she is very pretty… i think she is very insulting”
“love her, love her, love her”

Question 16

Overall critique on love GE

Answer 16

Anthony Liccione: “most people give up on finding their soul mate, and settle down to just having a flesh mate”

Question 17

POINTS- Wife of Bath

Answer 17

Very independent
Mostly marries for money but also marries for love
She finds her own husbands and does how she pleases (unlike estella)
She exerts control over her partners
The more they love her the less she tries

The knight values looks over personality when it comes to love
The ending of the story lacks development?? Very fairytale
Wife’s voice at the end which reinforce and reminds the reader of her stance on men

Question 18

QUOTES- Wife of Bath

Answer 18

“An example of an early feminist, striving for autonomy”
“My profit and myn ese”
“I have wedded fyve”
“Both of her nether purs of here cheste”

Question 19

POINTS- Billy Collins

Answer 19

Billy Collins
Mostly to do with loneliness- most readers have felt lonely
Link to both ‘kite’ and estella as the star as both being unattainable
Link to how language separates speaker and class separates pip

Question 20

Embrace

Answer 20

Loneliness
Appearance vs reality
Two different viewpoints
Relatable to the audience- direct address ‘you’
Relate to the appearance of WoB- evidence of underlying abuse
Pip- appears to be a gentleman but cannot escape background
Appearance that wealth equals happiness
Sad due to lack of a relationship
Innocent but kinda creepy

Question 21

Schoolsville

Answer 21

Loneliness and isolation
‘The population ages but never graduates’ trapped in the memory of speaker
Education makes a person successful
Much like pip who strives for education
Male- successful female- unsuccessful/ very focused on appearance/loses identity
Classes people through their grades- change in society from wealth to level of education
Makes fun of soft subjects such as creative writing-sought after in pip’s era/ WoB is illiterate
No one else is mentioned except from him and the students- not a real relationship
The ending is shocking and suggests madness
Sense of grandeur such as in the rival poet

Question 22

Plight of the Troubadour

Answer 22

Miscommunication and distance between men and women
Written from a male perspective
Much like pip and estella
WoB contrasts by being written from a woman’s pov
Loneliness- embrace
Troubadour thinking about the future- could reflect collin’s own insecurities about being a poet
Similar to the rival poet
Sense of impermanence- collins more likely to be forgotten than GE and WoB which already have a legacy
GE- widely published WoB- one of the first works to be published

Question 23

Osso Buco

Answer 23

Unashamed enjoyment
Wob and sex /// BC and food // pip’s longing for things but no direct pleasure
Linked to guilt
Very animalistic and direct
Changes to loneliness- distance between wife, only mentions her
Becomes very personal and private (?)