Great Expectations Literary Criticism Quotes

GE - second ending " " but " much more than the original" - George (1937)

GE - novel "is too a book to be a one. Its beginning is unhappy; its middle is unhappy; and the is an on it." - George

GE - "begins with him as a of 's , and ends with him as the of it" - P. Rawlins (1983)

GE - "the older Pip's [...] is and oddly to his own " - Jack P. (1983)

GE - "expressing the underlying both his own and his generation's with the idea of a " - Robin (1999)

GE - "where the idea of , however in principle, is one based on " - Jolyon (20)

GE - ", the novel suggests, involves and " - Connell (20)

GE - "he to a growing of that destroys his and " - Hardy

GE - "the of and self- for the life" - Gold

GE - "psychologically '' women" - Lucy (19)

GE - "because their is and associated with their to inflict pain on men they must be '' before they can " - Frost (19)

GE - "he is a boy : he is looking to " - Hilary (19)

GE - Estella - "a opposed to the of and the " - Gold

GE - Pip's has the effect of "reducing the of his " -

GE - Pip's disapproval of Joe - " him off from the of the forge and him still further in his own " - Robin (19)

GE - "Pip is in having flowing in different directions" - F.R. and Q.D. (19)

GE - "the of oneself by the with the and one's own is essential to being fully and in the present" -

GE - "the of Pip's given the in which he finds " - F.R. and Q.D. (19)

GE - Pip grows up in " society depending almost exclusively on and not at all on the of and " - Jolyon (20)

GE - Dickens' Inspiration for GE comes from a " in Dickens' " - Claire Tomalin (2012)

GE - audience - " and " - James (2007)

GE - "Estella can only to [Pip] when he exhibits of and which, in order to her, he is at pains to out of himself" - (1999)

GE - "Pip's to himself gets caught up in and " - Robin Gilmour ()

GE - Pip's have a ", " - Robin (1999)

GE - "Pip's urge upon him the of " - Alan Lulchuk (1970)

GE - "Pip's towards Estella's '' relates to his to enjoy being " - A.L. French (2012)

GE - "as he [Pip] moves up the , he lower on the " - Alan (1970)

GE - Dickens writes of "a in which all are therefore " - and Leavis (1970)

GE - "Dickens shows a that first and then " - F.R. and Q.D. Leavis ()

GE - Meeting Miss H and Estella the " of a new of the " - Michal (1984)

GE - "For him [Pip], she [Estella] is , the , the , 's Daughter, all myths of and love" - Gwen Watkins (1987)