Symbols

Question 1

Letter p.43

Answer 1

Pip has a higher social class than Joe as he has an education
creates social inequality between them
creates distance as Pip writes to him not talking

Question 2

Fire

Answer 2

symbol of warmth, love, education (Joe p.45), redemption - Miss H’s punishment and Pip’s redemption/cleansing. no fires at Satis House - desire and destruction - her love has been extinguished. revelation - Magwitch p.291

Question 3

Joe

Answer 3

symbol of a gentleman, who Pip should be learning from but isn’t. Forgiveness

Question 4

Pale young gentleman

Answer 4

represents Pip’s moral self FREUD - superego, symbolic as when Pip fights Herbert, he is fighting his morals/goodness. complete change in himself.

Question 5

Estella

Answer 5

brings out the worst in him. construct of Miss H - represents revenge on men.

Question 6

Orlick

Answer 6

FREUD - id, savage, uncontrollable, violent, aggressive side of pip. Chapter 29 - Pip gets Orlick fired - repenting his violent side. Overcomes his dark, inner savagery in Chapter 53

Question 7

Clothes and money

Answer 7

Mr Trabb

Question 8

Isolation

Answer 8

reflected by the setting (marshes, London)

Question 9

Bildungsroman

Answer 9

story of development , coming of age (both GE and Life of Pi)

Question 10

Barnard’s inn

Answer 10

symbolises Pip’s moral degradation as a result of his expectations and his pretence to be a gentleman. Foreshadows his fall from grace and the superficiality of his wealth

Question 11

Trabb’s boy

Answer 11

symbolic of what Pip would have been like if he hadn’t of come into money - FREUD - EGO

Question 12

Wemmick

Answer 12

has two identities - Walworth - comfortable, personable persona. London - money, materialistic. Public + private self (chasm is barrier)

Question 13

3 parts of book

Answer 13

Innocence, sin, redemption

Question 14

Satis House

Answer 14

changes Pip’s view on life/world - makes him arrogant, superiority, causes him to reject Joe, obsession with Estella

Question 15

Narrative voice

Answer 15

‘my life has been a blind and thankless one’ - Pip’s self-pity

Question 16

burning of hand p.367

Answer 16

cleansing himself of the corruption, selfless as he saves Miss H - innate goodness

Question 17

Moral scheme

Answer 17

good are rewarded and bad are punished

Question 18

Hand imagery

Answer 18

‘a gentle pressure on my hand’ shows Pip’s development, become more accepting of Magwitch contrast to his repulsion in chapter 39. Caring, soft side of Pip.