Show:
Character
Place
Quotes
Textual Features
Representation of Belonging
100
Pip
What is the name of the central character?
100
frozen in time
What is significant about Satis House?
100
As I never saw my father or mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them ... my first fancies of what they were like, were unreasonably derived from their tombstones
What words show that Pip is not only an orphan but also has no knowledge of his family?
100
omniscient narrator
What role does Dickens give to Pip?
100
childhood, love and affection, class, ambition, conscience, family, friendship loyalty, cruelty, compassion, law and justice, poverty,criem and criminals, growth to maturity, a sense of belonging
What are some to the themes and issues of the novel?
200
Estella
Who is Magwich's daughter?
200
Next door to the Gargery house.
Where is the forge?
200
"And bring the poor little child. God bless the poor child," I said to your sister, "there's room for him at the forge."
What did Joe say that led to Pip's being taken in by the Gargery's?
200
Like a wicked Noah's ark
What simile does Dickens used to describe the hulks?
200
The need of the individual to belong
What concept does Dickens explore primarily through Pip?
300
Miss Havisham
Who does Pip intitially believe is his benefactor?
300
Newgate Prison
Where does Wemmick take Pip?
300
When I go into the office, I leave the Castle behind me, and when I come into the Castle, I leave the office behind me.
How does Wemmick explain his separation of home and work life?
300
Encapsulated in gruesome images of decay and deeath
How is Miss Havisham described?
300
rejection of society
What concept does Dickens explore primarily through Miss Havisham?
400
Magwitch
Who tries to mould Pip into a gentleman?
400
Prison Hulk
What has Magwich escaped from?
400
We don't know what you have done, but we wouldn't have you starved to death for it, poor miserable creature.
What words does Joe speak to the convict?
400
small weekly sections, divided into chapters of roughly equal length; each episode concludes with either a mini- climax or item causing suspense
What are the features of a serialised novel?
400
Belonging and 'home'
What concept does Dickens explore primarily thorough Wemmick?
500
Wemmick
Who creates an alternate reality in which he can belong?
500
The Castle
Where does Wemmick live?
500
I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.
How does Estella explain what has happened to her in the years since she last saw Pip?
500
Pip wants and recieves great expectations, but in the tradition of the warning "be careful what you wish for', he both gets what he wants and can't have what he wants.
How is the title of the novel ironic?
500
Alienation in an uncaring world
What concept does Dickens explore primarily through Magwich and Compeyson?