Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Quote Analysis of Pip
- The opening sentence
- About the search for identity
- A pip is small, but grows
into something great
- 'Philip Pirrip, late of this parish'
- Named after his father, lack of
identity, same as Mrs Joe
- 'small bundle of shivers'
- Small, fragile
- 'Mrs Joe Gargery'
- Shows emotional gap
between the siblings
- 'Tickler was a wax-ended piece of cane, worn
smooth by collision with my tickled frame.'
- He is often beaten + physically abused
- Has affected his emotional well-being
- Tickles are not meant to be painful
- 'The guilty knowledge that I was going to rob Mrs Joe'
- Very aware of right + wrong from a young age
- Always has a guilty conscience
- Very strong moral conscience
- 'It was Christmas Eve'
- Is not important to Pip as it is not
mentioned till mid Chapter 2
- Not as fun to celebrate for Pip
- 'you are unwilling to play, are
you willing to work?...I was
quite willing'
- He does not know how to play
- More comfortable working, as he knows
how to work, has always worked
- 'Handel'
- No identity
- Reminded constantly of his past, cannot escape it
- 'As soon as I could recover myself
sufficiently, I hurried out after him'
- Feels some guilt, but not for long
- Joe's visit
- Waited for him to go, then only went
after him to make himself feel better
- 'As she looked at me in giving me
the purse, I hoped there was an
inner meaning in her words.'
- Wishful thinking
- He believes Estella knows that they are
going to be married, his interpretation
- His interpretations shape the reader's
- His love for her is hopeless
- 'I never had one hour's happiness in her society'
- Destructive love
- Addiction
- Chapter 38 is dedicated to his most
defining relationship, Estella
- Shows the strength of his love for her
- 'Richmond should ever come to be haunted when I
am dead, it will be haunted, surely, by my ghost.'
- Idea of lifelong love
- 'never taking another penny from him, think what I owe him already!'
- Does not want to owe a criminal, dirty money
- 'I am fit for nothing.'
- Realises that being a gentleman
is not everything
- Questions the value of gentleman's education
- Beginning of Pip's true education, to
become a good person
- 'I had felt great pity for him.'
- He starts to change to be a better person
- Feels more pity + less horror
towards Magwitch
- 'I want forgiveness and direction far too
much, to be bitter with you.'
- Knows he has made mistakes so is willing to forgive Miss H
- Shows his growth + redemption
- 'only good thing I had done'
- Paying for Herbert's job at Clarriker's House
- Aware that he has done little good
- 'my thanklessness to Joe, as through the brazen imposter Pumblechook.'
- Realises Pumblechook is false + self-serving, Joe is generous,
true + does not care how he seems, only how he is.
- Pip is growing as a person
- Realises Pumblechook + Joe are opposites
- Chapter 53 is a about redemption
- 'I'll put your body in the kiln'
- Takes fire again to bring out the bad
- Pip is purified during Orlick's attempt to murder him
- 'I'll never stir from your side'
- Pip has truly come to love Magwitch
- He has become a good person