Great Expectations - study guide. Introduction. This study guide is intended for students preparing for exams at GCE Advanced (A2) level and Advanced Supplementary (AS) level. But it is suitable for university students and the general reader who is interested in Great Expectations. Please use the hyperlinks in the table above to navigate this page. If you have any comments or suggestions. The purpose of this study guide is to help you find your way around. It. is not a substitute for close study of the novel. Ideas presented here. This is. not likely to tear you away from your television. You may also notice. Dickens or Shakespeare. PBS Airdate: February 12, 2008. NARRATOR: August 18th, 1960: 100 miles above Earth, a secret race in space has started. Corona, America's first. Check out talented performances by Barbara Rosenblat, audible.com's featured audio book narrator. Listen to Barbara Rosenblat audiobooks today! Back to top. Telling stories. In all ages and countries, some kind of story telling seems to have. What varies is the form of the stories. In ancient Greece. England, long poems were written. Athens in the 5th century B. C. No. one wrote novels before the last years of the 1. One reason why certain of these stories. In his time, Shakespeare's plays packed the theatres, in a way no other playwright could match. More surprisingly, they have continued to attract large audiences to. Dickens, in the 1. It also meant that those who liked the story, and could afford to, would buy the complete book when this was published later. For those who could not read, or could not read well, there were public readings; Dickens . Some things are thought to be good because they. Some of the most popular books of the past are never. Where books remain popular over long periods. Dickens is still. Great Expectations. Back to top. Dickens is boring. Studying any work at school or for an exam can make it seem boring. Dickens uses language we. Dickens is a great lover of verbal irony. At a. deep level, Dickens is very serious about. We can arrange. these in categories. One would be characters and their relationships. In this novel many of the characters are best considered in pairs, as they resemble or are mirror images of others. Try and arrange them into pairs or small groups. Another category is themes. Themes are important ideas, which recur. The third category is perhaps the hardest of the three to consider. Technique includes. The best critical writing is simple and natural; in.
You should always ask your teacher to explain any such. You can't learn maths, science or. What many examiners dislike is anything that looks like retelling of. On the other hand selected details from the story may be written about, so long as they are used to support your comment. In fact, interpretation of the text must be supported by evidence. Where possible, you should give the chapter number from which the evidence is taken. Do not write at great length about the first few chapters of any novel, and then leave out reference to the later parts of the text. You must show that you know your way around the whole of any novel. Back to top. A plan of the novel. Part 1 (chapters 1 to 1. The numbers are those of the chapters. If you have not read the novel. If you have read it, or as you are reading it. Part 1. Christmas Eve, afternoon: Pip meets the convict (Abel Magwitch). Pip asked to steal file and . Joe introduced; guns signal escaped convicts; Pip steals. Christmas Day: Pip at the Battery; tells Magwitch of the . Joe assaulted Pip's guilt at the weapon (the leg- iron); Biddy moves in; Mrs. Trabb; Miss Havisham. Why we think it’s a great listen: It is a truth universally acknowledged that anyone looking for a great listen won’t be able to resist Jane Austen’s delightful.Pip leaves home Back to top. Part 2. Little Britain and Newgate; Jaggers at work; Wemmick; Pip to lodge. Herbert Wemmick takes Pip to Barnard's Inn; Pip recognizes Herbert as . Wopsle/Waldengarver appears as Hamlet Prince of Denmark Pip waits for Estella who is visiting London; Wemmick shows him. Newgate (convict motif) Pip takes Estella to Richmond; she tells him of Miss Havisham's. Pip's and Herbert's debts; the . Joe dies The funeral; Biddy to leave the forge, mentions Orlick; Pip reproaches. Pip comes of age (November); becomes responsible for finances. Wemmick's advice for Herbert Pip at Walworth; meets Miss Skiffins; her brother to advance Herbert's. Clarriker's House Estella at Mrs. Brandley's; Pip to escort Estella; takes her to. Satis; quarrels with Miss Havisham; Drummle as suitor Pip (now twenty- three) has moved to the Temple; Magwitch returns. Pip's benefactor Back to top. Part 3. The man on the stairs; . Whimple's: Clara and Old Barley; the boat at Temple Stairs. Pip feels he is watched Pip fears Estella is married but will not make sure; Mr. Wopsle. sees Compeyson in audience Pip dines with Jaggers; Estella is married; Pip recognizes Molly. Wemmick tells of Molly's trial Miss Havisham's confession and repentance; Estella's adoption. Pip is. made to feel guilty for being a child, yet has genuine cause for guilt. Magwitch. Pip feels shame at his lowly origin and. Estella, with the disgusting felon (criminal), Magwitch, while. It is central to his understanding of Magwitch's essential. Pip sees the common. Estella and her convict father. To idealize Estella and. Magwitch is seen as an error of which Pip must repent. His. acceptance of Magwitch marks his redemption in the reader's eyes. Pip's. shame at his origins fuels his desire to be a . Other motifs. (recurring images) arise out of the novel's setting: the river as a. Pip's story. Back to top. Pip's guilt. Dickens convincingly depicts the oppressive sense with which guilt. Pip is repeatedly told by his elders that. The child senses. Joe, who correctly sees (Chapter 5. Pip leads to his. When Magwitch forces Pip to steal from the forge. Pip believes he is guilty of a serious crime, but is unable to confide. Joe, as he fears (wrongly) that he will lose Joe's love. In the novel's third chapter Pip, in the mist, sees accusers in the phantom finger- post and the clerical ox, while in the next chapter he sees how remarks about the general wickedness of youth are directed at him; while keenly aware that, as. Pumblechook have no reason to accuse him of vice. At this stage in the novel, the reader's disapproval of the smug diners. On a frosty night (Chapter 7) Pip thinks how awful. Joe prepares Pip. Back to top. Pip's visit to Satis House leads to his awareness of himself as coarse. Miss Havisham. has led only to dissatisfaction. The stranger with the file in the Three. Jolly Bargemen and the fight with the . In Chapter 1. 4. Pip explains at some length his shame and ingratitude: ironically he. Joe) of the very sin of which hitherto Pumblechook. Mrs. Joe have falsely accused him. Pip's half- holiday visit to Miss. Havisham gives Orlick the motive and opportunity for his attack on Mrs. Back to top. Pip becomes wrongly ashamed of his home and occupation and desperate. Biddy wisely questions. Pip, while aware of his inconsistency, cannot take her. Miss Havisham's making his. The discovery of his . Jaggers cares at first to undeceive him. He becomes. proud, patronizes Biddy and considers ways to make Joe a suitable companion. He is uncomfortable in behaving in this way, but. In narrating all this, of course, the. Pip is filled with shame for his betrayal of Joe. Pip is proud to take the inherited money (as he thinks) of his adoptive. And yet Magwitch. Pip has, in fact, got exactly what. When Pip meets Magwitch his snobbish distaste for. Magwitch does not at all blame him) is only slightly. He does. to his credit, feel it his duty to help Magwitch escape and resigns. Back to top. But it is only as Magwitch lies dying in the prison infirmary that. Pip comes to know him and love him. The earlier shame of association. Joe, years before, on the marshes. Pip writes critically. The understanding of the common humanity of the beloved Estella and the convict has helped Pip to this view, but his addressing him as . Pip is now fully cured of his snobbery. He resists depending on others. Joe's help and he is not too proud. Herbert offers him. Joe's tact makes him withdraw when. Pip is well, but Pip returns to the forge and is happily reconciled. Joe and Biddy. Pip has already suffered for his folly, but years. It is because he has accepted that he may never marry. Estella, and that happiness is to be found in the friendship of Herbert and Clara, of Joe and Biddy, that his unexpected reuniting with the also older and humbler Estella is not implausible. Back to top. Pip as a child has an exaggerated sense of guilt but enough awareness. Mrs. Joe's, Hubble's and Pumblechook's view of the young. He. trusts Joe's judgement, but too soon mistakes Joe's lack of learning. His association with Magwitch wrongly troubles him. Estella. Chance occurrences, always linked in the narrative. Estella, reinforce this sense of guilt (the man with the file. Orlick's use of the leg- iron, a visit to Newgate. Wopsle's recitation of the murder of George Barnwell, to say. Jaggers' business and Wemmick's mementoes of crime). The Estella. of the last chapter might view her paternity without disgust, but there. Pip's telling her of it (as he tells. Jaggers and Wemmick). Pip has weak feelings of guilt for his treatment. Joe, but these are sacrificed to his need not to lose face with the. With the death of Magwitch and Joe's reappearance. The ingratitude of which Pumblechook accuses. Pip is a fault he is guilty of to Joe. The narrative voice of the thirty- something Pip conceals nothing but shows all of the failings of the younger self. Back to top. Being a gentleman In the novel we are introduced to two different ideas of what makes. One idea is that a gentleman is made what he is by his social status. Pocket employs. a number of servants. Early in the novel Pip forms this idea: meeting. Estella makes him desperate to be her social equal; at the same time. Magwitch. A quite different standard is apparent to the reader from early. Pip: that being a true gentleman is. Biddy says of Joe. Dickens, in the novel, exploits the ambiguity (having more than one. Then, as now, it would mean someone. But. it also carried a sense of belonging to a separate class. Gentlemen. and women (or gentry) derived their wealth from owning land. This wealth. had been kept in families for generations by marrying within their own. Ordinary people would work as farm- labourers or domestic servants. Spark. Notes: Great Expectations: Important Quotations Explained. I. looked at him eagerly when he looked at me, and slightly moved my. I had been waiting for him to see me, that. I might try to assure him of my innocence. It was not at all expressed. I did not understand, and it all passed in a moment. But if. he had looked at me for an hour or for a day, I could not have remembered. This quote from Chapter 5 describes. Pip’s brief reunion with Magwitch after the latter has been captured. Pip, who is always concerned with other people’s. Magwitch to know that. Magwitch in. to the police. But when Magwitch looks at Pip, he seems to experience. Pip’s innocence or guilt. Pip “did not understand” but which is the most “attentive”. Pip has ever received. This is an important moment of foreshadowing. Pip’s kindness has moved. Magwitch to strong feelings of loyalty and love. It also an important. Magwitch’s character beyond the menace and bluster of his early. Diwisions among. such must come, and must be met as they come.”Joe says these words to Pip as a farewell. Chapter 2. 7, after their awkward meeting. London. Pip, now a gentleman, has been uncomfortably embarrassed. Joe’s commonness and his own opulent lifestyle, and the. Joe has felt like a fish out of water in Pip’s sumptuous. With this quote, Joe tells Pip that he does not blame. The blacksmith concocts a metaphor. Joe, and some men are goldsmiths, such as Pip. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the. Estella. makes this speech to Miss Havisham in Chapter 3. Miss Havisham has complained that Estella treats her coldly. Astonished that her adopted mother would make such. Estella responds with this analytical exploration of Miss Havisham’s. Using sunlight as a metaphor for love (an appropriate. Miss Havisham’s refusal to go into the sun), Estella. Miss Havisham raised her without ever. She then thinks of a better metaphor and says. Miss Havisham did tell her about sunlight, but. Estella did not naturally love the sunlight. Estella concludes this. Miss Havisham that she made her as she is. Miss Havisham is responsible for her creation. Estella. says that both Miss Havisham’s “success” (Estella’s coldness and. Estella’s inability to express her emotions. This quote is extremely. Estella’s development as a character, because it indicates. The speech is also one of the best descriptions. Estella’s character to be found in the book. I’m your second father. You’re my son—more to me nor. I’ve put away money, only for you to spend. When I was. a hired- out shepherd in a solitary hut, not seeing no faces but. I half- forgot wot men’s and women’s faces wos. I see yourn. I see you there a many times plain as ever. I see you on them misty marshes. Why, look at you, dear boy! Look at these here lodgings. You shall show money with. Magwitch makes this speech. Pip in Chapter 3. Pip’s secret benefactor and the source of all. This revelation is crucially important to the plot of. Pip’s idealistic view of wealth and social. The quote is also. Magwitch’s character: previously. Pip. 5. You understand what I say?”A gentle pressure on my hand. She is a lady and very beautiful. And I love her!”In this passage from Chapter 5. Pip tells the dying Magwitch about his daughter, Estella, whom he. If the arrival of Magwitch. Pip’s idealistic view of the upper classes, then the subsequent. Estella—Pip’s first ideal of wealth and beauty—is. By consoling the. Magwitch with the truth about Estella, Pip shows the extent. Rather than insisting on the idealistic hierarchy. Pip. is now able to see hierarchy as superficial and an insufficient. Loyalty, love, and inner goodness are far more. Pip explicitly recognizes.
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