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Great Expectations: THEMES, , - Coggle Diagram
Great Expectations: THEMES
Love and relationships
Platonic love
Pip and Herbert
Famial love
joe and pip
miss havishim and estelle
pip and estella
Deceit / appearance vs. reality
Miss Havisham allows Pip to believe that she is a benefactor
Miss Havisham was decieved by Compeyson on her wedding day
Pip discovers the truth of his benefactor
Characters who appear to be 'gentlemanly' but are actually wicked or deceitful
Compeyson
Bently Drummle
Criminality, crime and punishment
Pips relationship with Magwich
Pip first met the convict (Magwich) when he was very young and he bought food for the convict, but after we find out that the convict is Pips benefactor but we don't know where Magwich got the money from.
Magwitch
Magwich was known to be a criminal from when he was a small boy and was also poor so had to steal and never had a stable home. From when he was small it looked like there was no luck for him to have a normal life.
The justice system
The justice system most likely will pick the people that are wealthy or have a wealthy background.For example the System preferred Compeson over Magwich and that is why Magwich got double the jail time then Compeson.
Crime and respectability
Estella's parentage
Compeyson
Social class, ambition and wealth
This novel shows the superior
attitude
of the upper class to the working class.
In Great Expectations being a
gentleman
is not about the manners of someone, it's about how much money you have.
Money
Money can be a source of betrayal. For example, when Compeyson fakes his love for Miss Havisham to get her money and leaving her heartbroken at the end.
Growing up; education
The big change in Pip's life: Pip is chosen by an anonymous benefactor
Pip's early childhood at the forge, raised by Mrs. Joe and Joe
Pip is also influenced by Biddy. She is the voice of reason and common-sense (but Pip ignores her)
Pip rejects his background (Joe, the job of a blacksmith)
Pip tries to become a 'gentleman' to win Estella