Notes taken on the book:
-a Nobel of education, maturity, childhood to adult hood
-Pip is the protagonist
-it's a novel of fantasy. He has fantasies of what his life could be like
-he imagines that things happen on their own for him with no effort (this is what makes a child a child; idealism)
-appropriate fantasy for pop especially because he's a orphan he has a very strong sense for being unwanted, very sensitive, feels that the normal path in life isn't good enough and it won't fulfill him
-he's conscious of being a victim and being on the short end of the stick. He has a question in his mind "am I wicked, a good person, do I deserve what I have?"
-he doesn't really know what normal is. He has grand expectations but also has fears
-he's fatherless but uses the other characters such as Joe as father figures and role models
-Maggwich finds pip hanging around and asks him to go get him food. He eats like an animal, he's not governed by civilization, has no manners, has a capacity for wickedness and brutality, symbolizes the animal need to survive, he represents a threat of abandonment, if Pip doesn't help him he could possibly go back to being abandoned orphan, he symbolizes what he could be the guilty not loved orphan who people wonder why he was even born
-havasham sumbolizes shining promise, the potential of what could be a fairly godmother figure, sacrificed her life to memorialize her life and betrayal, her house is still and not moving since the day she was left at the alter. It's a memorial to dead hope. It represents possibility and fertility. She is the monster side of the female, she's rich and adopted Estella to Pip that means hope, she is also not what she seems and you have a dichotomy
-when Pip plays the game with estella, Havasham trained Estella to be a heart breaker, a destroyer of men
-Pip doesn't talk truthfully about Havasham or Estella to any other character because they remind him of himself
-Pip is a seed, the acorn who could become the oak or blow away in the wind, the character who hasn't become anything yet, wanting to be something more
-havasham and Maggwich vanish and pip has to put in work to see what he can make happen in his life. He meets Joe and draggers who are father like figures
-joe and jraggers are very different from each other. Both start with j and j is interchangeable with i and dickens use these characters to let him compare him self to the men. Am "I" like Joe or jraggers
-joe is a blacksmith and Jagger's knows things about people, knows secrets, etc. He holds that over people to keep them loyal
-Joe lives by feeling he looks at every situation as a whole and goes with his gut. He doesn't judge people by appearances and he's a romantic a poetic view of the world. We don't see him as a success financially but has a rich emotional life.
-Jagger's lives by the letter of the law. He breaks everything down to evidence and logic, he doesn't deal with emotions as much as Joe. He makes it hard on people. What he knows about others can hurt them. Characters who ar like jagger are Estella moly havasham Maggwich
-Jagger's doesn't believe in people or ideas he believes in words. He has a lot of money and that is his success
-Joe and Jagger's have both come across a mother and a baby in need of help
-Joe comes across them and adopts them even though the marriage isn't ideal
-Jagger's separates the child and mother and puts the kid up for adoption and the mother becomes his slave and servant and haunts her with blackmail if she doesn't do want he wants her to do
-Joe and Jagger's are foils to one another
-Joe tells pip that Jagger's only acts like a business man
-wemmick and magwich wemmick plays off of Jagger's and magwich plays off of Joe
-wemmick at home is a foil to wemmick at home, he represents an old nostalgic world, prefers people over money
-wemmick is cut and dry in his office always thinking about money and emotional and caring at home
-Pip tries to adapt and how he will use the characters personalities and etc to his life and growth process
-magwich comes to symbolize pip in a bad way, he identifies with pip as an orphan, he's like wemmick and has a double life. His hard childhood and his life after he meets pip
-Pip doesn't just get influenced he actually has an influence
-pip is not the son of a metaphorical dynasty
-Estella is not meant for pip it's just part of her training, pip comes to realize that her origins are even worse than pips
-magwich has actually created pips imaginations and thoughts, he was the influence
-pip comes to the understanding that what's old is new again
-resolution of great expectations is about that it's not about adults telling youth how to live and think, it's about the youth figuring it out
-Pip sees life as a fertilizer that makes everything grow
-Joe is not an intellectual but sees that the universe is complicated and people are always making new rules
-pips attitude changes when concerning both Joe and Jaggers
-he wants to be practical like Jagger's but emotional like joe
-he differs from joe and Jagger's in one big way in which he still lives in his imagination and is an idealist and not a realist
-joe and Jagger's are ready to accept the consequences of their actions
-they will deal with what comes
-pip wants the benefits but doesn't want to pay the piper
-he cuts himself off by separating himself from his last and becomes a snob because he's trying to find who is trying to be
-he talks about his bad attitude and difficulties and knows he's not perfect and Dickins shows us by this that Pip is still young and does not get it.
-he's now coming to terms to what that story really did for him
-he paints himself so that he will know what he is really like
-By the end of the novel Estella has been so discredited and pip is so disillusioned that they're not the same people and it doesn't matter if they marry. They are an underage couple who have failed
-Joe marries and has a child named pip
The novel is a reflection of his own view on the characters Joe and Jagger's and also having pip clear out his way of life and coming to terms of who he is
1. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens starts of with the introduction of a young man, Pip introducing his life that he is dissatisfied with. He comes from a non-traditional background, is an orphaned child who is being raised by his sister and her husband, Jo, in London during the mid-nineteenth century. As he was in a graveyard gazing upon the tombstones of his family, a convict approached him from behind and threatened to kill him him if Pip did not help him. This man, Magwitch, turned out to be a criminal who had escaped from jail. Just as Pip was doing everything this man said (retrieving him food, water, etc) Magwitch was recaptured by law enforcement.
Recovering form this near-death experience, Pip's uncle, Pumlechook took Pip to the Statis House to play. This house,the home of Miss Havisham, is a very scary, timid, spooky house that has all of its clocks stopped 20 minutes to 9. Miss Havisham is a women who is constantly mourning of her "ex husband" who ditched her at their wedding. While in her home, Pip meets Miss Havisham's taken in child, Estella, and falls deeply in love with her. Estella is a young lady raised to break men's hearts at Miss Havisham's request. While Pip fell in love immediately, Estella was constantly rude and cold-hearted. She eventually married an abusive man with an incredible social status. However, this never stopped Pip from chasing the love of his life till the end of the novel. In the end, Estella and Pip marry and live happily ever after.
Along Pip's journey, he was given a generous fortune from an unknown source. To claim his fortune, Pip had to travel to London where he could inherit this fortune. While in London, Pip met Herbert Pockett, whom he aided with his fortune in order to help Herbert pursue his dreams. While enjoying London, Pip was met with yet another curve-ball. He is reunited with Magwitch, the convict he helped in the graveyard, who claims to be the source of Pip's fortune, and not Miss Havisham as Pip was led to believe. Although Pip was indecisive as how to react to this news, Pip became very close with the convict and eventually helped him come up with a plan to escape to London to get away and hide from law enforcement. Unfortunately, their attempt was unsuccessful and Magwitch was sentenced to prison until death.
In the end of the novel, Pip discovered he really did love Estella. Weirdly, Pip finds out that Estella is actually Magwitch's daughter. Estella and Pip chose to continue their married life happily and confident and tell one another that nothing will break them apart.
2. A potential theme for this novel could be that love is genuine and pure. In this circumstance, it can surpass some of the worst of circumstances. Pip's involvement and introduction to Estella wasn't ideal for any fairytale. She was rude and cold-hearted to him and all other men she came across. To add on to her bad, unattractive qualities, Estella proved that she was a pushover and easy to be influenced. Because she had been manipulated by Miss Havisham throughout the course of her life, Estella was so easy to push around and persuade. Pip continued to show his love and care for Estella even when she portrayed such rudeness and disgust towards Pip. This demonstrates real love and determination.
Obviously, it takes real, genuine love to surpass the cirumstances and conflicts that both Pip and Estella encountered throughout the course of the novel. When Estella was rude, and even married to someone else, Pip never gave up hope that he and the love of his life, Estella, would end up together.
3. The tone of this novel is one that I have never come across before. The tone can be described as one that is depressing yet hopeful at the same time. Quotes that support this are:
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Characterization
1. Two examples of direct characterization are:
"A fearful man, all in coarse grey, with a great iron on leg."
"A man with no hat, and with broken shoes, and with an old rag tied round his head."
Two examples of indirect characterization are:
"You made your own snares." Indirectly, Miss Havisham is stating that Pip created his own problems.
"Miss Havisham gives you to him, as the greatest slight and injury that could be done to the many far better men who admire you, and to the few who truly love you." Indirectly, Pip is stating that being with anyone else but him is a mistake. That it would hurt him and "injur" him since he admires her and truly loves her.
2. The author's syntax does change when he focuses on character. When not focusing on character, Dickens writes in what I would consider a normal, relaxed style, in twenty-first century English. When he does focus on characters, however, he develops a different syntax and diction. An example is, "At Epsom races, a matter of over twenty years ago, I got acquainted wi' a man whose name was Compeyson; and that's the man, dear boy, what you see apounding in the ditch, according to what you truly told your comradearter I was gone last night." The words "wi" and "comaradearter" support my point.
3. Pip is dynamic and round character. In Pip's life, his changes from being a poor, innocent, confused boy to a successful, respectable "gentleman" by obtaining his large fortune. He did a complete 360. Before his benefactor provided him with the amazing fortune and the opportunities it brought along itself, Pip was a dissatisfied, lost, immature boy who was desperate for an innovation in his life. By the end of the novel, he was a man who truly understood friendship, loyalty, success, love, and over all, reality.
4. After reading this story I felt like I had simply read about a character. I did not really connect to the character Pip because I have never gone through anything that complex and devastating before. Thus, it was hard to relate to Pip and the scenarios he faced. Where I live, it is very rare that someone gets a random benefactor that provides them with a chance to collect a huge fortune and travel to a out of state place to retrieve the fortune. To me, the story was just very random and hard to relate to for a modern day student like me. Also, today fairy tales are not commonly seen in society/reality. If Pip and the other characters were to have experienced what they did in modern day, he would have certainly not received both the fortune and the love of his life. He would have either received none or one. Dont get me wrong, I loved the book and all of its characters, but the fact that it was hard to relate them made it extremely difficult for me to come away from the novel and be able to say that i feel as if i had spent the whole book feeling as if I were experiencing it like Pip and overall even saying that I "know" Pip on a personal level.
1. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens starts of with the introduction of a young man, Pip introducing his life that he is dissatisfied with. He comes from a non-traditional background, is an orphaned child who is being raised by his sister and her husband, Jo, in London during the mid-nineteenth century. As he was in a graveyard gazing upon the tombstones of his family, a convict approached him from behind and threatened to kill him him if Pip did not help him. This man, Magwitch, turned out to be a criminal who had escaped from jail. Just as Pip was doing everything this man said (retrieving him food, water, etc) Magwitch was recaptured by law enforcement.
Recovering form this near-death experience, Pip's uncle, Pumlechook took Pip to the Statis House to play. This house,the home of Miss Havisham, is a very scary, timid, spooky house that has all of its clocks stopped 20 minutes to 9. Miss Havisham is a women who is constantly mourning of her "ex husband" who ditched her at their wedding. While in her home, Pip meets Miss Havisham's taken in child, Estella, and falls deeply in love with her. Estella is a young lady raised to break men's hearts at Miss Havisham's request. While Pip fell in love immediately, Estella was constantly rude and cold-hearted. She eventually married an abusive man with an incredible social status. However, this never stopped Pip from chasing the love of his life till the end of the novel. In the end, Estella and Pip marry and live happily ever after.
Along Pip's journey, he was given a generous fortune from an unknown source. To claim his fortune, Pip had to travel to London where he could inherit this fortune. While in London, Pip met Herbert Pockett, whom he aided with his fortune in order to help Herbert pursue his dreams. While enjoying London, Pip was met with yet another curve-ball. He is reunited with Magwitch, the convict he helped in the graveyard, who claims to be the source of Pip's fortune, and not Miss Havisham as Pip was led to believe. Although Pip was indecisive as how to react to this news, Pip became very close with the convict and eventually helped him come up with a plan to escape to London to get away and hide from law enforcement. Unfortunately, their attempt was unsuccessful and Magwitch was sentenced to prison until death.
In the end of the novel, Pip discovered he really did love Estella. Weirdly, Pip finds out that Estella is actually Magwitch's daughter. Estella and Pip chose to continue their married life happily and confident and tell one another that nothing will break them apart.
2. A potential theme for this novel could be that love is genuine and pure. In this circumstance, it can surpass some of the worst of circumstances. Pip's involvement and introduction to Estella wasn't ideal for any fairytale. She was rude and cold-hearted to him and all other men she came across. To add on to her bad, unattractive qualities, Estella proved that she was a pushover and easy to be influenced. Because she had been manipulated by Miss Havisham throughout the course of her life, Estella was so easy to push around and persuade. Pip continued to show his love and care for Estella even when she portrayed such rudeness and disgust towards Pip. This demonstrates real love and determination.
Obviously, it takes real, genuine love to surpass the cirumstances and conflicts that both Pip and Estella encountered throughout the course of the novel. When Estella was rude, and even married to someone else, Pip never gave up hope that he and the love of his life, Estella, would end up together.
3. The tone of this novel is one that I have never come across before. The tone can be described as one that is depressing yet hopeful at the same time. Quotes that support this are:
- "Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies." Being lied to has the potential to make one feel unworthy and depressed, but knowing a way of how to avoid lies is comforting.
- "We need never be ashamed of our tears. For they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts." Seeing or reading of a person who is brought to tears makes for an upsetting tone. Not to mention, being the one crying is much more heartbreaking. However, knowing that crying isn't wrong and serves a purpose is comforting in the midst of one's unhappiness.
- "I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be." Its saddening that discouragement occupied a relationship in the novel, but reassuring that even when faced with discouragement, it's possible to still love one another.
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- Metaphor-"... think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day." (page 82) In this quote, the chains and flowers are metaphors for what could potentially hold the characters back from doing what they really wanted to do.
- Anaphora-"... one [man's] a blacksmith, and one's a whitesmith, and one's a goldsmith, and one's a coppersmith. Divisions among such must come, and must be met as they come." (page 260) This quote made a point that each man must be separated due to their profession/abilities.
- Narration-"...I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip." (page 1) Right from the very start of the novel, Dickens identified Pip as the main character and the narrator of the story.
- Foil- "Keep still, you little devil, or I'll cut your throat!" (page 1) This quote was said by Magwitch, the convict. This quote made Pip look more innocent and defenseless and made Magwitch look evil and cruel. Pip was identified as a young orphan who was visiting his parents tombstones when he was abruptly approached and slandered by a criminal who escaped incarceration. These two descriptions made each character look as if they were opposites of one another.
- Setting- "As I was looking out at the iron gate of Bartholomew Close into Little Britain, I saw Miss Jaggers coming across the road towards me." (page 142)
- Point of view-"I looked all around for the horrible young man, and could see no signs of him." (page 5) This quotes proves that the point of view is in first person is used to narrate the novel.
- Symbol- "I am greatly changed. I wonder you know me." (page 415). This quote depicts that Estella represents change in the novel.
- Dickens uses innuendo to explain that Pip is an orphan without stating directly that he is. "I give Pirrip as my father's family name, on the authority of his tombstone and my sister."
Characterization
1. Two examples of direct characterization are:
"A man with no hat, and with broken shoes, and with an old rag tied round his head."
Two examples of indirect characterization are:
"Miss Havisham gives you to him, as the greatest slight and injury that could be done to the many far better men who admire you, and to the few who truly love you." Indirectly, Pip is stating that being with anyone else but him is a mistake. That it would hurt him and "injur" him since he admires her and truly loves her.
2. The author's syntax does change when he focuses on character. When not focusing on character, Dickens writes in what I would consider a normal, relaxed style, in twenty-first century English. When he does focus on characters, however, he develops a different syntax and diction. An example is, "At Epsom races, a matter of over twenty years ago, I got acquainted wi' a man whose name was Compeyson; and that's the man, dear boy, what you see apounding in the ditch, according to what you truly told your comradearter I was gone last night." The words "wi" and "comaradearter" support my point.
3. Pip is dynamic and round character. In Pip's life, his changes from being a poor, innocent, confused boy to a successful, respectable "gentleman" by obtaining his large fortune. He did a complete 360. Before his benefactor provided him with the amazing fortune and the opportunities it brought along itself, Pip was a dissatisfied, lost, immature boy who was desperate for an innovation in his life. By the end of the novel, he was a man who truly understood friendship, loyalty, success, love, and over all, reality.
4. After reading this story I felt like I had simply read about a character. I did not really connect to the character Pip because I have never gone through anything that complex and devastating before. Thus, it was hard to relate to Pip and the scenarios he faced. Where I live, it is very rare that someone gets a random benefactor that provides them with a chance to collect a huge fortune and travel to a out of state place to retrieve the fortune. To me, the story was just very random and hard to relate to for a modern day student like me. Also, today fairy tales are not commonly seen in society/reality. If Pip and the other characters were to have experienced what they did in modern day, he would have certainly not received both the fortune and the love of his life. He would have either received none or one. Dont get me wrong, I loved the book and all of its characters, but the fact that it was hard to relate them made it extremely difficult for me to come away from the novel and be able to say that i feel as if i had spent the whole book feeling as if I were experiencing it like Pip and overall even saying that I "know" Pip on a personal level.
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