- Could be considered cinderella childhood fantasy
- Pip has to change from effortless life to life of work
- He fantasizes his "parents"
- Believes he is above having a family/being married
- Has no knowledge of being normal
- Uses other male characters a a father like role model
- Pip is uses other men's personalities and mannerisms as "outfits" he is trying on to find himself
- Magwitch-just trying to survive, animal like, lower class
- Pip fears that he can become magwitch
- Miss Havasham- witch like figure, double sided- adopted Estella, women of means/represents horrible decay, home is untouched since she was left at the alter
- Pip plays begger your neighbor with Estella. Realizes miss Havasham raised Estella to ruin men, pip still falls for her.
- Many men require trophy like female companions
- Dickens uses Joe and jaggers as opposites on the moral scale
- Joe is physical strong but doesn't use it, doesn't judge by looks, not monetary successful but happy
- Jaggers is mentally string but doesn't use it, lives by the law, breaks everything down to evidence
- Joe meets mother and child and marries
- Jaggers meets mother and child splits them up. Sells child an uses mother as slave
"The ones who push the limits, discover the limits sometimes push back." - Frosty Hesson
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Great expectation lecture notes
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