Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Great expectation lecture notes


  • 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

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