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Great Expectations: Context
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GCSE English Literature Mind Map on Great Expectations: Context, created by Gabriella Brittain on 25/04/2017.
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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
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