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Great Expectations
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A-Level English Literature Mind Map on Great Expectations, created by Jodee Phillips on 30/04/2014.
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Great Expectations
Key themes
Social Class/Hierarchy
Estella makes Pip aware of his working class background - this starts the changes in Pip
Ambition/Hopes
Pip hopes to make the transition from working class to upper class
Wealth
Pip has a desire for wealth - results in him getting Herbert into debt
Pip does not care - selfish
Conflict
Inner turmoil
The difference between doing what he wants and what is right
Steals from his sister to help the convict
Innocence/Corruption
Pip is innocent at the beginning - wants to be like Joe - a blacksmith - he is unaware of life outside of the marshes
When he leaves he is easily influenced by his surroundings - he becomes corrupted - shows his naivety
Other readers
Marxist
Proletariot = Pip
Bourgeois = Estella
Estella looks down on Pip because he is a 'common laboring boy' - Makes Pip aware of the class structure
One of the reasons for Pip's corruption - he tries to make the transition between classes and fails
Freudian
Orlick - ID
He is the dark side of Pip - expresses Pip's repressed feelings
Mrs Joe treats them badly - Only Orlick physically fights back
Herbert - EGO
Repression
Magwitch as Pip's benefactor
The truth was hidden - when it is brought to the surface, Pip becomes aware of his situation for the first time
Estella
Mrs Havisham raised her to get revenge on males
Estella has been groomed to feel no love
Structure
3 parts of the novel represent Pip's stages in his life
Part 1 - Innocent Pip
Part 2 - Corrupted Pip
Part 3 - Pip's redemption
Narrative voice
Retrospective first person narrative - Pip
Makes him unreliable? - He may not be able to remember everything accurately
The reader knows Pip will be okay in the end - he survives all the hardships he faces
At the beginning he is a child - may have over exaggerated what he say
His vivid description of the convict
He is fairly honest - acknowledges his faults
Key Symbols
Pathetic fallacy
Dickens uses a lot of pathetic fallacy to foreshadow bad things to come
Chapter 39 - stormy night - return of the convict
Foggy mist - symbolises Pip losing his former innocent self
Satis House
Pip's realisation of where he is in the world - working class
Symbolises bitter dreams and disappointment
Miss Havisham gets left on her wedding day
Pip hopes to marry Estella one day
Setting
Marshes - forshadows Pip's corrupted self
Page 5-6
'this bleak place overgrown with nettles'
'dark flat wilderness beyond the churchyard'
'distant savage lair'
London
Negative description
Foreshadowing Pip's corrupted self
Barnard's Inn
Satis House
Estella
Is symbolic of the bourgeoisie
Joe Gargery
Is the ultimate symbol
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