Great Expectations Study Guide

Through start these former(a) scenes it Is clear that at that place Is a feeling of villainy pervading. The evil comes non so oftentimes from Magnetic or charge the Terrible younker person man that dash so fears as a unripened lad, tho rather the presence of the gibbet and the nearby reference to the hulks that break through like a wicked Noshs Ark. It is a symbol of evil that is shortly at hand as well as foreshadowing proximo ills. In this chapter we nates see that the presence of the soldiers makes dispatch ill at ease because of the sin that he eels at aiding and abetting the escapees.He fears that they provide regularise of his collusion if they ar captured. We feel that it is their own quarrel that brings their escape to grief. We argon told that they came from contrasting class groups. The fierce young man is supposedly a humanity. This brings into head the description of this term. This is important as Dickens Is nearly concerned in his work wit h defining the class groups and In item the true definition of a gentleman. The evil of the convicts is contrasted with the sympathy that both collide with and Joe feel for them.Joe Is especi in ally selfless In is for minded(p) upess to patronizes Magnetic upon his admission of stealing from their household. PIP on the other hand allows this deception to pass as It favors his position. l was too dastardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong. His viciousness is glowing and this isnt lessened by the drags around him that would condemn him and subdue him prejudicially for cosmosness young, unp bented and vulnerable. These forces ironically seem to come from his own parish and family.Joe, who is ironically not p arnthood related is the one that he ants to impress the more or less and tone who he fears alienating by telling the truth. The irony is that Joe has al evincey displayed tangible signs of be able to f orgive anybody for anything on humanitarian grounds e. G. Magnetic. Magnetic himself has through with(p) a noble act In his confession. This Is In contact to scores cowardly secrecy. Chapter 7 fool lacks education. This is remedied by removes being sent to Mr Whoopees salient aunt. regrettably she tends to residual through these lessons. Fortunately, though, germinate learns to read through the assistance of chick, the granddaughter of this lady. slay, who is indentured toes displays a precise disturbing quality during this chapter that is to affect his development and the responders assurance of him, that being snobbery. He ostentatiously offers to tutor Joe who is illiterate, merely changes when Joe tells his story of how he met Mrs.. Joe and how he had cared for flash. Joe goes shape up to show his magnanimous affection for all earth as well as stumble l respect there warrant no Tickler for you, old chap I wish I could take It all on myself, He likewise looks a t the frost on the marshes and pities all those that readiness be caught up In It. tally Is Invited through Uncle Bumblebees to catch a rich and grim lady who broodd in a large and muddy house, MISS Having looms large as vitality at the end of this chapter. whip breakfast for his uncle before heading to Stats house. Stats refers symbolically to the irony of being well-off. In contrast to the name of this Manor augury there is nothing that is satisfied. When scald arrives he is greeted by a young girl who comes across the courtyard to give welt entry and usher him through the grim house by candle open.Her name is Estella and she seems like a shining star to Pip although ironically her spurning of Pip seems to remove much of her luster to the responder. When we are introduced to dangle Having she appears as a weird and sere lady who seems surreal and almost lifeless. Her watch and the clock remain at twenty minutes to nine. This is the time that her life stopped and she b egan to decay metaphorically and literally. She tells Pip that her heart is broken and then orders him to play. Pip is unable to assemble this request until Estella is ushered in once to a greater extent to play cards with him. deteriorate Having sits acropolises during this before dismissingPip and ordering him to return in six twenty-four hour periods. He is ushered prohibited and given approximatelything to eat before experiencing an hallucination of lack Having being hung. He passing plays central office with his mind buzzing with the contempt that Estella had for him. Chapter 9 This chapter considers Pip being grilled by the negative forces at space, Uncle Bumblebees and Mrs.. Joe. He prefers to lie being upset approximately his treatment at Stats house. He eventually owns up to his lies to Joe at the forge that night but is taken up(p) by the fact that Estella anchor him coarse because of his hold and boots. He wishes that he wasnt coarse.Joe tells him that If you cant get along to be unmatched through freeing straight, youll never get to do it through going crooked. Pip thinks to the highest degree Joeys wisdom as he is going to sleep that night, however, he cant help thinking that Estella would consider Joe common and his boots thick and his hands course. It would seem that this first visit to Stats House has infected Pip psychologically and he is experiencing quite a deal of disquiet. Ironically it is his childhood pureness that has been lost. later on visiting Stats house and throwing a glimpse of a more privileged lifestyle he will himself never be satisfied once more.This creates a prelude to his expectations. Chapter 10 Pip is obsessed straight with meliorate himself, presumed to make himself more acceptable to Estella and Miss Having. He asks Biddy to in private tutor him in transmitition to the classes that he was getting at Mr Whoopees great aunts school. The disquiet that Pip is increasingly feeling and that was fir st heralded by his hallucination of Miss Having hanging is now seen get ahead in his dreams. This follows when he sees Mr Hopple at the public house tailing to a recondite stranger who is stirring his rum and water with a file. It is Joeys file.Pip is further haunted by nightmares ab egress the convicts and the file. Most importantly he is concerned that having much(prenominal) secret associations with criminals might be perceived as being common and whence unpalatable to Estella. Chapter 1 1 wonders why he doesnt cry when she slaps him. This hardens him against sense and this proposes also what Miss Hafniums design was in this relationship. Another foreshadowed event occurs as he enters when he encounters a strange man of dark complexion. Pip returns to Stats house on the appointed day to palpate that Miss Having is being visited by fawning relatives.It seems as if the responder is strangely and unexpectedly given an emotional empathy for Miss Having. We feel for this chara cter because she is Jilted and because we know that the relatives that are fawning later on her have only her inheritance in mind. The relatives are Raymond, the henpecked husband Camilla the hypocrite Miss Sarah liquid ecstasy the fawning woman and Georgian the quiet but slippery woman. When they have gone Pip is asked to play again but refuses and agrees alternatively to work. He is forced to walk Miss Having around the table where she tells Pip that she will one day be placed when she is dead.The Juxtaposition of this frank request and the fawning relatives brings demise to the fore. Miss Having also places expensive Jewelry on Estella breasts and hair to suggest her beauty and suggested inheritance. This is to tease and taunt Pip in a means starting the process of gaining retaliate on mankind through her ward Estella. The notion of Juxtaposing dickens different classes is also part of this process. Pip is taken let outside to be greeted by a pale young gentleman who want ed to fight Pip. Pip betters him and is rewarded with a mocking kiss by Estella. Chapter 14 Pip is totally miserable in this chapter.His discontent has reached obviously unbearable levels. This content is highlighted by the Juxtaposition of the good- natured Joe. His only solace is in that he hasnt shown Joe how he feels nearly him. withal it is a point of further pain as he realizes the extent of his character flaw as it contrasts with Joe l know right well that any good that intermixed itself with my apprenticeship came of bluff contented Joe. This heightens his cognitive dissonance. He feels guilt and shame at being ashamed and dissatisfied with things surrounding such and amiable character as Joe. He fears that Estella and MissHaving whitethorn visit and see him in his grimiest state. He is in full aware of the level of shame that he feels slightly Joe and his apprenticeship as a blacksmith. Pip feels that all hope for him has been lost. It is not incidental that this ha s come as a direct result of his visit to Stats House. His depression is evident in his thoughts made evident in this chapter l have matte for a time as if a thick curtain had fallen on all its interest and romance, to shut me out from anything save dull courage Chapter 15 The cognitive dissonance or guilt that Pip felt last chapter reaches its zenith in this chapter.He is the focal point of a fight amidst Joe and an itinerant worker (journeyman) named Rollick. Pip decided that he would like to visit Miss Having to thank her for organizing his apprenticeship as it was the anniversary of the establishment of the uniform. He asked Joe for a half day off so that he could visit Stats this leads to Mrs.. Joe line with Rollick and then Joe feeling that he had to defend his wife, the resulting fight leads to Joe defeating Rollick. They by and byward make up over a pint but Pips guilt about this incident is enduring. He visits Stats House but is greeted by Miss Sarah Pocket instead of Estella.Estella is overseas to become a lady. This leads to further dissatisfaction in Pip. Mr Hopple stick outs Pip and leads him to Uncle Puncheons place to see a play by a young George Lillo. The play is about an apprentice who murdered his Uncle. This adds further guilt as Pip feels that this is all aimed at him because he is an apprentice. It is as if the adults surrounding him feel that he will amount to no good. On the way post they walk with Rollick before reaching the crossroads and insureing that something is wrong at the Gagger house. Pip broadens home to find out that his sister has been struck on the back of the head.Chapter 16 The theme of guilt continues in this chapter as Pip thinks that he may be somehow responsible. He fears one of deuce sources of this crime both that would somehow be his responsibility. It could have been Rollick, in which his asking for a day off may have indirectly be responsible or the strange young man with the file in which it would have been his fault because of his association with convicts. meanwhile Mrs.. Joe lies unconscious and then speech impaired. She continually asks for Rollick and designs a T that seems to point at the assailant.Biddy comes to live with them to help nurse Mrs Joe in the light of the death of Whoopees aunts death. Chapter 17 Pips life has become routine except for his annual visit to Stats House on his birthday, at which time he is given a Guiana. Each visit makes him further dissatisfied with his lot in life. After one visit he takes Biddy walk of life on the marshes, where all bad things happen. He is oblivious to the fact that Biddy might cope him even though he does see that she is attractive on one level. He thinks that he is better than her and acts in a patronizing manner towards her.He apparently cannot get the specter of Estella out of his mind If I could only get myself to fall in love with you This reveals how self thoughtless he is as he cannot appreciate her affect ion for him or even her feelings. The tr time-worny of this scene is that his soul-mate is in front of him and he is crippled from recognizing this. On the way home Rollick confronts them but Pip dismisses him. Biddy suggests that she is uneasy with Rollicks manner as she fears that he likes her. Pip wishes to get him dismissed but his new relationship with Mrs Joe prevents this action.Chapter 18 In the fourth year of his apprenticeship Pip goes with Hopple to the Three Jolly Bargeman where Hopple reads out an consider of a local murder. Those around him believe the man to be guilty. A stranger chimes in asserting everyman right to be man that he met on the steps of Stats House all those years ago. Pip learns that he has great expectations from an unknown benefactor. He is to retain his name as Pip he is to be improve and he must not assay to know his benefactor. Ironically he is more morose than ever and is doleful and lonely. His emotions do not move further away than himself .He cannot fathom what Joe and Biddy might be feeling at his departure. He is to be educated by Mr Matthew Pocket, Miss Pockets relation. This to the responder as well as to Pip seems to link this lady to his expectations. It seems unlikely that it could be anyone else responsible. Whilst Pip counts the days floor to his departure, Biddy and Joe feel the opposite about the passing of this time. Chapter 19 Pip feels satisfied and free as Joe and he burn his indenture papers. After church he goes to the marshes again and thinks condescendingly about his village and feels greatest to everyone.He thinks that he would do something for the village once he has made his smirch. He recalls his first coupleing with the convicts on the marshes. Pips negativity and superiority ironically has him deprivation ill to these convicts that had frightened him all those years ago. Pip hopes that the convict is transported or perhaps dead. He presumes that the benefactor is Miss Having and wonders whether part of the plan for himself involves Estella. This fault is encouraged by her when she says Goodbye Pip you will always grasp the name of Pip you know. This of course echoes the instructions given to him by Jaegers from his benefactor. This combine with the fact that Jaegers was associated with Miss Having seems to be too much of a affinity for him and the responder. Pip snoozes only to wake to find Joe smoking next to him. once more he acts in a superior condescending manner towards him. We chance upon the sycophants come out of the woodwork at this point of the novel. Mr.. Tract spurns Pip until he learns of his money and expectations. At this point he starts to fawn after him, as does Bumblebees and even Miss Sarah Pocket.Dickens, it would seem, is determined to satirist the money rule society in which he lived. He was more concerned with humanitarianism and the real values of human beings Great Expectations Charles Dickens Part 2 Chapter 20 In this chapter Pip arrives in London and finds the city ill-gotten and revolting. This seems to represent to the responder that he is disappointed in his expectations. It for sure takes the discolour of his expectations. This can be clearly seen through the repetitious use of the countersignature dismal. Mr Jiggers mode was lighted by a skylight only, and was a most dismal place. This also gives an idea about how we are to view Jaegers. He too is a dismal man with very little move for the societal garbage that provides him with his living. They provide him with a living but he treats them in a superior way as goes his clerk Hemming l wondered Whether they all claimed to have the same obtains perjured witnesses for Jaegers. Jaegers tells Pip to go to Barnyards inn where he is to come across Herbert Pocket. Jaegers ends this chapter telling Pip of course youll go wrong somehow, but thats no fault of mine. Chapter 21 This chapter mostly contains information about the city and about Barnyards Inn and its environs. We learn about the seedy nature of London when Hemming hints Mimi may get cheated, robbed and murdered in London. Pip begins to despair So infirm was this realization of the first of my great expectations, that I looked in sigma at Mr Hemming. We are told that Weenie is to be a major influence on Pip as he controls the money from Jaegers. The end of the chapter has Pip meeting Herbert who recognizes Pip as the prowling boy. Could things possibly get worse still he is to find Herbert company a bright spot in a dismal London landscape. Chapter 22 Herbert and Pip become friends despite the earlier altercation. They dispense stories about Estella as it is obvious that Herbert too has had dealings with her. Herbert describes her as a Tartar miss, Miss Having had sent for me, to see if she could take fancy to me. condescension this obvious parallel to his emplacement Pip does not waver from his affections for Estella. We find out that Estella is adopted by Miss Having. It would seem to reek revenge on all mankind by her haughty and capricious nature.We find out that Matthew Pocket is Miss Hafniums cousin and this coincidence is the driving force quarter Pips supposition that he must be favored by this woman and hence she must, it would seem be his secret benefactor. In this chapter the acquainted(predicate) relationship with Herbert is established and he is given his nickname Handel after the theatrical role of music called the Harmonious Blacksmith. This provides a link to Pips roots and his true disposition that suggests that he is not as haughty as he aspires to be. It also suggests that whilst Herbert is of this world he also has a sense of identification with everyday societal dealings.Nonetheless Herbert does try to teach Pip proper etiquette such as how to use his utensils. Chapter 23 This is a chapter where we are introduced to the strange world of the Pockets household. Mrs.. Pocket has aspirations to be royalty and is precio us being removed from the upbringing of her children. We are told they are not brought up but in fact eave tumbled up. When they annoy her she alone has them sent inside to have a nap. We are also introduced to Matthew Pocket, Herbert father. The responder is told that he is well educated at Cambridge. His other tutees are are Drummed and Startup.These characters are also introduced here. The total impression of the scene is painted as mildly amusing and Pip feels comfortable here, probably because despite the dysfunctional nature of the relationships it is more hospitable than his variety was not possible in the country and he appreciates it and finds it interesting and amusing. Chapter 24 Pips future is discussed whilst it seems it is still very vague and not sent in concrete. He is told that he was not designed for any profession. His education then is to be a generic wine one. He wants to secure his place at Barnyards inn and needs to get furniture.Jaegers plays with him a bout the sum that he will need for this. Again this suggests something about the nature of Jaegers more than anything. This is also suggested when talking with Hemming about this man. He tells Pip to note his housekeeper carefully when he is invited to dine with his guardian. Youll see a marvellous east tamed. This provides some foreshadowing for this scene. Hemming also invites him to Walworth to observe Three curiosities as I have got. Chapter 25 In this chapter we find that Pip visits Whimsies Walworth castle. This provides a contrast to the world of Stats House that is dark an gothic.Whimsies house is warm and inviting. It is individual(prenominal) and quirky and provides and interesting view of the lower echelons of society and how happy they can be. perchance this is the vision of society that finally gives Pip something to build upon for his future. front in the novel he experiences such rejection and dislocation from his own theater of influence including his sister that there is no stability other than Joe, who is himself nether siege by Mrs.. Joe. We are also introduced to Startup and to Drummed and find out more about these fellow students.Further is said about Jaegers and the dictatorial force-out and influence he has over the criminal underclass of society p. 206. The aged provides an interesting sideline in the world of Hemming and this shows his concern with family and support of others. It for sure shows how he has developed a dual persona between home and work life. When I come into the office, I leave the Castle behind me, and when I come into the Castle, I leave the office behind me. Chapter 26 Pip, Startup and Drummed head to Jaegers for dinner and gives an unusual degree of attention to Drummed.It certainly also provides a comparison with Whimsies house for the responder L had an early opportunity of comparing my safeguards establishment with that of his achier and clerk. . Jaegers makes his housekeeper show her wrists to the guests after they themselves had spent a ludicrous amount of time showing off their own muscles in an absurd display. We are also told that her ace compared with the faces that Pip had seen around the caldron in a play of incident the Spiders time with Mr Pocket was up for good, and, to the great relief of all the house but MrsPocket, he went home to the family hole. This suggests that his societal aspirations and ambitions are closely aligned to Mrs Pocket. This taints our feelings towards Drummed and suggests that his significance to the story will be greater than this. Chapter 27 In this chapter the country comes to the city. Biddy writes a garner in typically familiar tones as Joe suggests he wants the letter written including slang What larks. The letter discusses that Joe is coming to London and in fact Hopple is coming to London as well to make his mark upon the London compass point.Pips snobbery has developed and he is not too felicitous at this news and greets it Not with pleasure, though I was bound to him by so galore(postnominal) ties. It seems that he is in fact embarrassed by Joe as was suggested in Pips discussion with Biddy before he came to London. When they meet there is an awkwardness evident and they in fact have hurt finding conversation. We are even made privy to Pips thoughts when Joe does visit about his clothes and he way that he eats As to his enclothe and collar they were perplexing to reflect on He sat so far from the table, and dropped so much more than he ate. Joe brings news that Miss Having requires Pip to return to Stats House to visit regarding the return of Estella. Pip is mortified with the poignancy of Joeys parting comment which highlights the societal division between the two that has developed Pip Life is made of ever so many partings welded together One mans a blacksmith, and ones a whitest You and me are not two figures to get together in London nor yet anywhere else but what is private and Benson and unders tood among friends. Chapter 28 Pip return s home but decides not to stay at Joeys, instead opting for a room a the Blue Boar.He says that he would have liked to take his servant the Avenger, Just to show off particularly to that impudent rascal, Tracts Boy. Coincidence again plays its hand as he happens to be on the same stage as two convicts are traveling. One of them Just happens to be the same convict that gave him the two one pound notes. Pip departs the carriage with hurriedness and makes for the Blue Boar where he discovers local newspaper that tells of Bumblebees being the wear of Pips fortune. Pip feels self-righteous indignation about this. Chapter 29 This chapter is a body of work in self delusion.Despite the fact that Herbert had told him of his experiences at Stats House he feels that his situation is different and that his affection for Estella is real. He thinks about seeing Joe but doesnt, instead walks on the other side of town to avoid running into him. Whilst walking he has a daydream about his relationship with her. He sees himself as doing The shining deeds of the he tells us that he Loved her none the less. Interestingly he finds Rollick at the door and there is some banter before he is admitted to Miss Having and Estella. Later he advises Jaegers to advise the dismissal of this unsanitary individual.He also haughtily advises the dismissal of Tracts Boy after Tracts boy mocks him for his airs and graces. When Pip meets with Estella she tells him that she was the ghost that he had seen that night. P. 238. Miss having appeals to Pip to love her charge but Estella herself informs Pip how unprepared she is to love anybody. Ill tell you what real love is. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission. Finally we are told that Estella in her turn would come to London and that Pip would host her. This leads to Pips love expectations and pride Hat she should be destined for me, once the blacksmiths boy. Chapter 30 This chapter is the most satirically poignant chapter in the novel. Dickens points the disapproving finger of cordial condescension and snobbery squarely at Pip but he is too caught up in his new superiority to take it to heart. Perhaps this is because the person who is pointing the finger is the subject of his own need to show off, Tracts boy, therefore it is too easy to shrug all of this off as Jealousy. Nonetheless from the responders perspective there is no character that is less pretentious than Tracts Boy.Audacious Yes, impudent Yes, but not Jealous. Coincidence is again the device of this chapter. Pip is dandy to avoid running into Bumblebees, probably because of the newspaper article that he read last chapter, so he decides to walk for a bit and meet the carriage to London, that Jaegers is also in, further down the road. This provides the circumstance for Pip to run into Tracts Boy. When Pip sees him walking towards him lashing himself with an empty blue bag, he deems that a Rene and unconscious contemplation of him Would be the most dignified thing to do.Here is Pip trying to seem dignified to the unseemly, knockabout Tracts Boy. This in itself is pure folly. It was met by Tracts trilogy of mockery for Pips apparent snobbish and condescending demeanor. He pretends to be hunted asks for mercy in front of many people then crows him out of town with his cry of dont know yah, dont know yah, pony my soul dont know yah, to mock Pips haughty dismissal of his town and all of his previous acquaintances that now seem below his recognition. Chapter 31 The comic satire continues in this chapter as Pip visits the theatre to see Whoopees performance of village that is poor in the extreme.Nonetheless when he is taken backstage he is complementary telling Mr Wallpapering (Hopple) that he thought massive and concrete. After this experience Pip dreams of performing Hamlet to Miss Hafniums ghost in front of Twenty thousand people, without well-educated twenty words of it. This again reminds the responder how much of a hold this woman and her actions have a hold over his psyche. His dreams and nightmares and subconscious desires are all caught up with the world of Stats House. Chapter 32 In this chapter Hemming invites Pip to colligation him in a visit to Negate prison.The Prison is described vividly. The metaphor of the Jail as Whimsies greenhouse is used. Hemming is described as walking amongst the prisoners untold the same as a gardener might walk amongst his plants. In this environment, his work environment, takes upon himself the same superiority as Jaegers. Pip parts from Hemming and thinks about his childhood out on our lonely marshes on a pass evening. Then regrets coming with Hemming on this particular day when he is supposed to be meeting with Estella. He tries to beat the prison dot off And even to exhale its air. Ironically he fears, but doesnt understand, the obscure shadow which again in that one instant had pass ed. Chapter 33 Pip is more confused and dissonant regarding his relationship with Estella than ever. She arrives and tells him that she is bound for Richmond to live and that Pip is to escort her, to this end she gives him her purse to pay for the expenses. There is a strong sense that Estella is a victim of her own fortunes and that she is a round shot in flight without control over being fired or even what she might destroy when she ands. We have no choice, you and l, but to follow our instructions. We are not fee to follow our own devices, you and l. Then she force her arm through mine, as if it must be done. Estella recognizes Matthew Pockets qualities but feels that she has to add For I hate that class of man. She also murmurs the contemptuous utterance Wretches as she approaches Negate. The narrator confesses that he would never have told her of his Visit for any consideration. This again shows how she has been ruined by Miss Hafniums patronage. Her superior demeano r is objectionable to the responder.Pip gives region to his affections for her and she is dismissive Mimi silly boy How can you talk such nonsense. Nonetheless he steals a kiss with her permission even though he recognizes that he could Build no hope on it. He in fact recognizes that she will probably have many admirers in his absence in Richmond. Pip thinks about confiding in Matthew Pocket and gain his advice on women, but then sees Mrs Pocket reading a take of dignities and concludes that perhaps his advice may not be as sound as hed hoped. Chapter 34 Regret plagues Pip as he starts to realize the affectionate ramifications of his expectations.