Great Expectations
Pip 👦🏻
Joe 👨🏼
Mrs Joe 👩🏽
Magwitch 👴🏽
Miss Havisham 👰🏼
Estella 👧🏻
Herbet 👦🏽
Jaggers 👨🏻
Wemmick 👨🏾
"Larger species of child" 🚸
Doesn't look up to joe
No male role model
Reversal of typical Vict. stereotypes
Biddy 👧🏽
"Curls of flaxen hair" 👱🏼
Feminine description
Angelic
"Nothing that he wore then fitted him" 👔
Incongruous out of forge
Only character that stays true throughout play
"We wouldn't have you starved to death" 🍞
"Whittles" 🍞
Naturalistic language
'True' gentleman
Compassion and empathy
Inclusive personal pronouns believe Pip is innocent
"Not doing what's right by a woman" 👫
Submission to wife is out of fear
Nature vs nurture
Authenticity
Sub class
"Hugged his shuddering body" 🤗
Vulnerable
Active verbs
Contrast to stereotypes
"Wicked Noah's ark" ⛵
Religious symbolism
Reversal
"Washed herself with a nutmeg grater" 🛀
Associated with harshness
Opposite of motherly figure
"Tickler" 😨
Positive connotations but negative use
Reversal of expectations
Enjoys inflicting pain - sadistic
"Brought up by hand" 🖐
Euphemism for violence
Encouraged in C19th
Reversal of the suggestion of nurture
"Prevailing redness of skin" 🙎
Colour symbolism of red = devil
Juxtaposed against Joe's angelic description
"New flowered- flounce" 🌻
Covering up the usual household
Alliteration shows the incongruity of usual decor
"Her temper was greatly improved" 💢
Attack as punishment for being cruel?
Transformation
"As if some goblin had been crying there all night" 👺
Shows his imagination
Childishness juxtaposed against Vict. children not having a childhood
"Holloa young thief" 🐃
Anthropomorphism
Violent upbringing = fear of doing wrong
"Always to keep up with me" 📚
Double edged compliment
Arsehole
Can't believe she is clever - C19th sexism
Education linked to self improvement
"The beautiful young lady..." 👧🏻
Asyndetic list = childish love
"She was an orphan like myself" 👧
Biddy is an equal to Pip
"Blessing to the household" 🏠
Biddy is an angel
Becomes what Pip is not
"She could not be like Estella" 💌
Dick
Biddy is viewed as lesser because of her class
"Hopeless circumstances" ✏
Biddy always triumps
True heroine
"All of white" 👰
"Very pretty" 👄
Repetition and colour symbolism of white
White = purity
Listing overwhelms Pip
"Trinkets" 🗝
Material wealth
"Faded and yellow" 👵
She corrupts her environment
Decay
Symbolises loss of hope
"I want to see some play" 🎴
Imperative
Adults exploiting children
"Well? You can break his heart" 💔
Rhetorical question
Manipulating children with class and age
First impression of her
Just looks
Foreshadows Pip's obsession with her beauty"
"one and twenty, and a queen" 👑
Same age but class gives her superiority
Class divides even in children
"But you see she don't" 🙈
Class gives her power over adult
"Most dismal place" 🕶
Disappointed with his first experience of London
"Twin Wemmicks" 👬
Wemmick has two personalities
Dickens showing the different sides to the business class
"Battery mounted with guns" 🏰
Literal version of a man's home is his castle
"Deadly black horsehair" 💺
Premodification - deadly
Shows his skills as a lawyer
"Bully his sandwich" 🍞
Indicative of his association with business only
Intimidating personality
"Dry man" 👤
Appearance does not equal reality
Pip's initial impressions are proven wrong
Cynical appearance = effect London has had
Effect of environment on character
"You may get cheated, robbed and murdered" 🔫 💰
Enforces theme of criminality
Dangerous place - foreshadowing Pip's downfall in London
"You might like a little fruit after dinner" 🍓
Stereotyping Pip as a country boy
Thoughtful character
Foreshadows his good personality
"We shan't fight I dare say" ⚔
Ironic cataphoric reference
Signals that Herbert is a comedic relief from the story
"No ceremony" 🍗
Continues no nonsense
No frills
Foreshadows uncomfortable dinner party
"He kept everything under his own hand" 🖐
Extreme control over his house as well as his clients
"Who's the spider" 🕷
Sees Drummel as a potential client
Foreshadows Drummel's villainous character
"Certainly would have paid money" 💸
Links money with corruption and deception
Actual VS moral crimes
"Well Sir" 👥
Incongrous with London
Nervous
Cataphoric refence to his sunday clothes
"She lured me on" 🌷
Pip is still obsessed with her
She is transformed
Active verb shows Pip believes she is in control
"Do you find her much changed Pip?" 👩🏻
Pip and Estella are her puppets
Manipulation
Major foreshadowing
Lets Pip believe she is his benefactor
"I knew very well that it was not all good" 👨🏼
Retrospective first person narration
Conditional language and qualifiers (modal auxillary verbs indicating certainty)
"I began to contract a quantity of debt" 💰
Debt is also a metaphorical concept
He is indebted to Biddy and Joe
Repays them by casting them out his life
Money linked to corruption - Herbert is corrupted by Pip
"Joe...pardon...Pip" ⚰
Her death is the first time she uses their names
Dickens redeems her in death
First time
First time they embrace
"Mr Pip" 👲
Pip believes she is mocking him
He is insecure over his new identity
Doesn't know how to talk to Pip - divided by class
"What an... Biddy had done me" 🗯
Rhetorical devices and parallelism
Incrementum
Pompous rage
"I am what you have made me" ❤
Personal pronouns
"A thieving turnips for a living" 🍏
Earliest memory
"They measured my head" 🤕
Criminality seen as a physical disability
"In jail and out of jail" ⏸ 👨🏼
**Repetition, parallelism and alliteration"
"What have I done?" ⁉
Repetition
"Whirl of fire blazing all about her" 🔥
Contrast to the usual static nature of Satis House
"You are a part of my existence" 💑
"White ceiling"
"I have often thought of you" 👫