Great Expectations: NotesLife of Dickens - Context and setting - General summary - Themes - Structure and characters - Language and style - Hints for study. |
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Barnard's Barnard's Inn behaviour blacksmith Bleak House caricature Chapter 17 Chapter 54 characters Charles Dickens childhood Clara Clarriker comic Compeyson complex contrasts with Pip's convict criminal critical David Copperfield Dickens's Drummle E.M. Forster England English essay Estella example Expectations father forge fortune gentility gentle Christian gentleman at heart gives Pip GLOSSARY Pip heartless Herbert Pocket Hillis Miller humble humour Jaggers Jaggers's Joe and Biddy Joe's visit leg-iron London love for Estella marriage marry marshes Matthew Pocket Miss Havisham Molly moral mysterious benefactor Newgate Newgate Prison NOTES AND GLOSSARY novel novelist Oliver Twist Orlick Pip and Magwitch Pip becomes Pip feels Pip goes Pip's snobbery plot prison Pumblechook quotation readers recognise reform remember reminds revenge romantic Satis House save Magwitch slang snob social status society Startop story sympathy tar-water torment Trabb's boy true gentleman Victorian warns Pip wealth Wemmick Wopsle Wopsle's