Relationships Flashcards
POINTS- Pip and Joe
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
QUOTES- Pip and Joe
“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”
CONTEXT- Pip and Joe
Relationship appeals to both victoria and modern day readers
Joe is effeminated by his affection for pip (switch of gender roles)
POINTS- Pip and Estella
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
QUOTES- Pip and Estella
“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”
CONTEXT- Pip and Estella
Dickens’ own guilt over his affair with Ellen Ternan and the breakup of his 20 year marriage
POINTS- Pip and Biddy
Opposite of estella- kind, caring and gentle
Taught him how to read-education
QUOTES- Pip and Biddy
“not beautiful- she was common, and could not be like Estella”
“The most obliging of girls”
POINTS- Pip/Magwitch
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
QUOTES- Pip/Magwitch
“Look’ee here, Pip, I am your second father. You’re my son-more to me nor any son”
CONTEXT-Pip/Magwitch
sympathy for prisoner- especially one who is portrayed as a victim of society
Dicken’s campaign for prison reform
POINTS- Joe/Biddy
Fits traditional expectations of true love
QUOTES- Joe/Biddy
“The best husband/wife in the whole world”
POINTS- Estella/Miss H
Miss H is very controlling of Estella
She does not experience true love because she cannot
QUOTES- Estella/Miss H
“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”
Overall critique on love GE
Anthony Liccione: “most people give up on finding their soul mate, and settle down to just having a flesh mate”
POINTS- Wife of Bath
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
QUOTES- Wife of Bath
“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”
POINTS- Billy Collins
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
Embrace
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
Schoolsville
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
Plight of the Troubadour
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
Osso Buco
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 (?)
