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Great Expectations Analysis
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Both sides of
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the relationship are equal in status and have equal respect for each other
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A
relationship that is blanketed with lies is also unhealthy to the extreme
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He shortened his own name
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● Pip has a large imagination and thinks about things too deeply as can be
seen by his overanalysis of a gravestone (he imagine the personality of his
parents based on the style of the engraving)
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A physical representation of his status
(low economic status)
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He is too innocent and easily manipulated as
seen by his interaction with the convict
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Pip’s sister is just as harsh and angry (the way she jabs the
butter) and she is shallow (just like how she spreads the butter)
● Joe is the first character that appears to have a positive relationship with
Pip in the story although they are not blood related
● Pip is very curious, just like most children his age
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His guilt has manifested itself into all living objects
around him
● He gives the food to the man and becomes more confident with his second
interaction with him
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He takes pity on him although he is a
convict
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● Pip asks the man if he liked the food, which means that he cares about the
well-being of the man
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● Irony that he steals on Christmas Eve
Chapter 4

● Pip steal feels guilt
● Mrs
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Joe’s cleanliness is emphasized - she is sweeping up her emotions and
constantly getting rid of them
● Pip’s finally sees the effects of his faulty actions (tar water incident)
Chapter 5
● Pip first sees an interaction of lies and the web that lies cause
● First interaction between middle class and lower class
● Middle class takes pity on the lower class (Mr
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Wopsle - the person that he relates to
● Mrs
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Wopsle Characteristics
○ brought up by hand
○ characterized by extremities (Pip is also characterized by
extremities, from honesty to deceit)
○ slightly OCD (always washing something)
● Pip is excessively prideful (elevates himself above Joe because he knows
how to spell)
● Pip going to Mrs
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Havisham
○ She wears a veil (shrouds herself from interactions)
○ She has never seen light (physically and metaphorically in the dark)
● Estella
○ cruel but pretty
● Dickens establishes female roles in Victorian Society, viewed as cruel and
confined to the house
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Pip’s
interactions with females highlights his own feminine qualities as he is
characterized by emotional extremes and unashamed to cry openly
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Chapter 9
● Pip is a compulsive liar, he seems to lie with ease
● Pip lies because he wants to be seen as something he is not, he is having
trouble coming to terms with his own middle class life and therefore
dramatizes events
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Joe and
Mr
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● Earlier Mrs
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Wopsle)
● He is manipulative (Biddy)
● He doesn’t tell Joe that Mr
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Chapter 11
● Mrs
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Jaggers - lawyer (kind of like a shark)
○ He is prematurely balding - already seen and dealt with a lot of
horrors
Chapter 19
● Every character, although some honest, is prideful
● Pride must have been an important characteristic of Victorian society
● Pip shows NO respect to the people who treat him with respect
○ He barrages Joe with questions and he is blatantly rude to Biddy,
both people who love him and care for him deeply
○ He is kinder to those that do not care for him much, but he also lies
to them, so is his honesty to Joe and Biddy his way of showing
kindness?
Chapter 20
● Pip enters London which is filthy
○ London has absorbed the filth and corruption of the world

○ Pip is about to enter this real world, one that is dirty and isn’t as
innocent as his life back at home
○ The filth is a symbol of what London has become
Chapter 21
● Novel is very similar to David Copperfield
○ The plot, the characters, the idea of lawyers mixed into affairs (that
could just be how society was back then, but more likely Charles
Dickens is reusing ideas)
Chapter 22
● We already can assume that Miss Havisham is pretty crazy (seriously, who
lives in a wedding dress?)
○ But we don’t know why, but Herbert explains
■ Her would-be husband was a promiscuous man and she never
forgot him leaving on her wedding day (scarred for life)
○ Herbert is nice, but Pip seems to believe that all nice people don’t
end up well in life - could be the reason for his constant lying
Chapter 23
● Only the servants have control in the Pocket household (statement about
Victorian society)
○ Aristocrats are pretty much bumbling idiots
● Children were “not growing up, or being brought up, they were tumbling
up”
○ Mrs
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he is just
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Biddy and Joe are still kind and sweet
(as per the letter) but Pip doesn’t really want anything to do with them
anymore
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This is just like when he was younger and was
embarrassed by Joe in the presence of Havisham
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Chapter 28
● Pip meets the convict (the same one from Chapter 1) and Pip has an
epic-major freak out when he finds this out
● He actually leaves the carriage with the convict
● This shows that Pip doesn’t want to have anything at all to do with his past
Chapter 29
● Pip likes Estalla for who-knows-what-reason
○ She doesn’t like him at all but he still chases after her
○ This is the probably the worst lit pairing since Dominique-Roarke
● Far into the night, Miss Havisham’s words “Love her, Love her, Love her!”
sounded in my ears
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absolutely nothing
● She is like a manipulative piece of stone
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● Miss Havisham is somehow getting a twisted enjoyment from Pip’s misery
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He is constantly playing the Estella
show, but that play should have been over in Act 1
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Estella/Pip is not going to happen
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Half the book is already over and he still doesn’t see that
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He doesn’t have
any blood relations left
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I really dislike her character
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Good for you, Pip!
Chapter 40
● The convict from Chapter 1 turns out to be Pip’s benefactor
● He got his money as a sheep-rancher and in turn gave that money to
support Pip
● Goes to show that a good deed goes a long way (or not because he is still a
convict)
● Pip obviously thought Havisham was his benefactor (obviously not the
case)
○ Now he feels guilty about leaving Joe
Chapter 41-47
● Pip doesn’t like Magwitch then he begins to like Magwitch

● First time that Estella ever shows ANY emotion (I didn’t think she was
capable)
○ Pip makes this speech about how the good in Estella will always be
part of him
○ Estalla stares at him in “incredulous wonder”
Chapter 48 - 59
● Molly is Estella’s mother
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And she was
bruised because she was accused of murdering her daughter to spite her
husband
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Actually, Dickens
has led us this whole time to think this is a weird feminist novel but it
actually isn’t
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He obsesses over Estella to the extremes
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To Pip, a healthy relationship is characterized by someone
having power over him
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This was the only kind of relationship
he grew up with and the only way he thought that a relationship could exist
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Both are kind and
sweet-natured and neither fight for dominance over one and another
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Then another
relationship is that of a fatherly and motherly figure, both taken on by Magwitch
and Havisham respectively

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