Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Great Expectations: Context
- Social: Women and Children
- Child Labour and Poverty
- Inheritance
- Education
- Patriarchy
- Marriage
- Social: Class
- Etiquette/Manners
- Social Mobility
- Typically, the more wealth = the more pretentious
- Gentlemen
- Gentleman vs Gentle man
- Wealth and status vs dutiful and gentle behaviour
- Education
- Literary Contexts
- Bildungsroman
- Growing Up
- C19th novel
- Romantic
- Pip/Estella, Biddy/Joe, Herbert/Clara
- Social-Purpose
- Idea of being a gentleman
- Gothic
- An atmosphere of mystery and horror
- Opens in a misty graveyard
- Satis House
- Biographical: Dickens
- Father imprisoned for debt
- Magwitch
- Fell in love with Maria Beadnell, but rejected
- Estella cruelly rejects Pip
- Other Key Events
- Fell in love with actress of 18 years at 45
- Biddy/Joe
- Made to work in factories by mother
- Mrs Joe and Miss H (mother figures) treat him badly
- Social/Historical: Crime and Punishment
- Police
- Prisons
- Early C19th
- Disorder
- Overcrowding
- Hulks and transportation
- Mid C19th
- Prison reform (separate system)
- Crime Levels
- The legal profession
- Jaggers
- Hand washing
- Socio-economic: Industrial Revolution