GREAT

EXPECTATIONS
Charles Dickens

Laura Batista, Maria Clara Bolognani, Mike Max e Melissa Bottene

 CHARACTERS

● Pip (Philip Pirrip) is the main protagonist;

● Joe Gargery;
● Abel Magwitch - the benefector;
● Mr. Jaggers - the lawer;
● Startop - also wants to be a gentleman
● Matthew Pocket - tutor of Pip.
 CHARACTERS

● Mrs. Joe - constantly remember how she raised him “by hand”;
● Estella - the beloved;
● Miss Havisham - rich woman;
● Uncle Pumblechook - Joe´s rich uncle, corn merchant;
● Herbert Pocket or Pale Young Gentleman - Pip´s best friend;
● Biddy - raised Pip early in her life;
 Analyses - Great Expectation

● Example of Bildungsroman;
● Series of elements along with Pip's own troubled journey into adulthood;
● Turn Estella into a younger version of herself;
● Stopped clocks in Satis House - reflect Miss Havisham interrupted development;
● Magwitch - changed his name to "Provis";
● Started to change Pip´s luck in return;
● Pip - determinated to transform himself into a gentleman;
● He forgets who he was: the change happened too quickly and he is ashamed of his
roots;
● Dangers of remaining rigidly who you are (as Miss Havisham's approach) or of
changing too much beyond recognition;
CHAPTER 7
“Mr. Wopsle’s great-aunt kept an evening school in
the village; that is to say, she was a ridiculous old
woman of limited means and unlimited infirmity,
who used to go to sleep from six to seven every
evening, in the society of youth who paid twopence
per week each, for the improving opportunity of
seeing her do it.”

“Much of my unassisted self, and more by the help

of Biddy than of Mr. Wopsle’s great-aunt, I struggled
through the alphabet as if it had been a
bramble-bush”

—PIP
“There was no indispensable necessity for my
communicating with Joe by letter, (...) But, I
delivered this written communication with my own
hand, and Joe received it as a miracle of erudition.”

“I say, Pip, old chap!” cried Joe, opening his blue

eyes wide, “what a scholar you are! An’t you?”
(...) Why, here’s a J,” said Joe, “and a O equal to
anythink! Here’s a J and a O, Pip, and a J-O, Joe.”

“I had observed at church last Sunday when I

accidentally held our Prayer-Book upside down,
that it seemed to suit his convenience quite as well
as if it had been all right”
[JOE TELLS HIS FATHER TREATED HIM AND HIS MOTHER
WHEN HE WAS A BOY]

(...) My mother and me we ran away from my father, several

times. Joe,’ she’d say, ‘now, please God, you shall have
some schooling, child,’ and she’d put me to school. But my
father were that good in his hart that he couldn’t abear to
be without us. And then he took us home and hammered
us.”
“Though mind you, Pip; rendering unto all their
doo,* and maintaining equal justice betwixt man
and man, my father were that good in his hart,
don’t you see?” I didn’t see; but I didn’t say so.”

“It were but lonesome then, and I got

acquainted with your sister. Your sister is a fine
figure of a woman. Whatever family opinions, or
whatever the world’s opinions, on that subject
may be, Pip, your sister is”

“And bring the poor little child”

“I see so much in my poor mother, of a woman
drudging and slaving and breaking her honest hart
and never getting no peace in her mortal days, that
I’m dead afeerd of going wrong in the way of not
doing what’s right by a woman, and I’d fur rather of
the two go wrong the t’other way, and be a little
ill-conwenienced myself. I wish it was only me that
got put out, Pip; I wish there warn’t no Tickler for you,
old chap; I wish I could take it all on myself”

“Young as I was, I believe that I dated a new

admiration of Joe from that night”
 CHAPTER THEMES

● Precarious education (determined not by one’s will to learn,

but by the impositions of those around them);

● Perception of virtues;

● Treatment of those who care about & Friendship.

● Symbolism of the stars

CHAPTER 13
He was still weighing his hat with the greatest
care, and was coming after us in long strides
on the tips of his toes. - PIP

“Oh!” said she to Joe. “You are the

husband of the sister of this boy?”

“You are the husband,” repeated

Miss Havisham, “of the sister of this
boy?”
I could hardly have imagined dear old Joe
looking so unlike himself or so like some
extraordinary bird; standing, as he did,
speechless, with his tuft of feathers ruffled,
and his mouth open, as if he wanted a worm.
“Have you brought his indentures with you?” asked Miss
Havisham. “Well, Pip, you know,” replied Joe, as if that were
a little unreasonable, “you yourself see me put ’em in my
’at, and therefore you know as they are here.” With which
he took them out, and gave them, not to Miss Havisham, but
to me.
 “Astonishing!”
“Astonishing!”
- Joe

“What’s he done?”
“He’s a young ’un, too, but looks bad, don’t he?”
- Some people say
 CHAPTER THEMES

● Humiliation
● Melancholy
● Social Class
● Ambition (Pumblechook)
CHAPTER 29
 General Context

● Appearances;
● Fight with Joe;
● Visit to Miss Havisham.
“ She had adopted Estella, she had as good as
adopted me, and it could not fail to be her
intention to bring us together.
“ “The lady (...) lifted up her eyes and looked
archly at me, and then I saw that the eyes were
Estella’s eyes.” But she was so much changed,
was so much more beautiful, so much more
womanly (...).
“ I fancied, as I looked at her, that I slipped
hopelessly back into the coarse and common
boy again. O the sense of distance and
disparity that came upon me, and the
inaccessibility that came about her. She
treated me as a boy still, but she lured me on.”

Not a boy
anymore
-
-
“
Not remember that you made me cry?
No. You must know that I have no heart
if that has anything to do with my
memory.
Oh! I have a heart to be stabbed in or
shot in, I have no doubt and, of course,
if it ceased to beat I should cease to be.
But you know what I mean. I have no
softness there, no sympathy,
sentiment, nonsense.”
“ - I’ll tell you what real love is. It is blind
devotion, unquestioning self humiliation, utter
submission, trust and belief against yourself
and against the whole world, giving up your
whole heart and soul to the smiter––as I did!
“ But I never thought there was
anything low and small in my keeping
away from Joe, because I knew she
would be contemptuous of him. It was
but a day gone, and Joe had brought
the tears into my eyes; they had soon
dried, God forgive me! soon dried.
 CHAPTER THEMES

● Ambition

● Manipulation