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Great Expectations
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Great Expectations (1861) is a novel by Charles Dickens.It is one of his most famous works (along with A Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist, and A Tale of Two Cities), as the multitude of high school students assigned this 450+ page book will attest. Ironically, it is his most unconventional work; Dickens deconstructed many of his trademark plots and characters in it, including the Mysterious Benefactor and Rags to Riches tale. The main character Pip is also far from the simple minded innocents of David Copperfield and Oliver Twist, and arguably has undergone the most Character Development as a result.Pip starts the book as a guileless orphan who lives under the thumb of his shrewish older sister Mrs. Joe, only marginally mollified by her simple-minded but good-hearted husband Joe. The most eventful incident in his childhood is helping a convict on the marshes escape. But after being invited to play at the home of Miss Havisham, an eccentric spinster who's never recovered from being jilted at the altar long ago, and meeting her beautiful, but haughty ward Estella there, Pip's mindset changes. He begins to resent his simplistic upbringing and the middling blacksmith career and working-class life that seem inevitable for him.Then, out of nowhere, a lawyer named Mr. Jaggers shows up at Pip's doorstep and tells his stunned family that he has had "great expectations" bestowed upon him by a Mysterious Benefactor. Pip will spend the next couple of years training to become a proper gentleman. His benefactor's identity is a secret, but Pip is convinced that it is Miss Havisham. He meets the upper-class members of London society including friendly Herbert and loathsome Drummle, forgets about his old life, and courts Estella with limited success. But it is not until Pip finally discovers who his benefactor is that the plot really begins to thicken and Pip is forced to confront a variety of surprises, disappointments, and unexpected revelations.Can be read here. | |
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Anonymous Benefactor | |
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Anonymous Benefactor: Pip assumes that the wealthy, eccentric Miss Havisham, guardian of Estella, is his benefactor. To his dismay, he learns that it's really Abel Magwitch, the escaped convict who had intimidated him years ago into stealing food for him. He's much nicer now. Raising sheep in Australia will do that apparently. | |
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Lessons in Sophistication | |
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Lessons in Sophistication: Pip finds himself receiving a large sum of money from a mysterious benefactor so he can become a gentleman in London. | |
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Shrine to Self | |
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Shrine to Self: Miss Havisham's decaying mansion. All the clocks are stopped at the moment that her would-be groom betrayed her, she still wears her wedding dress as a grim reminder, and the dining room table remains set with the rotten wedding feast and cake. She proposes to have her body laid out there when she dies. | |
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Tall, Dark, and Handsome: Several adaptations make Pip this, especially the 1999 version. (And in fact the original illustrations of the Dickens novel do suggest this.) | |
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Title Drop | |
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Title Drop: When Jaggers informs Pip of his Mysterious Benefactor. | |
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Defeat Means Friendship | |
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Defeat Means Friendship: When Pip and Herbert first met they get into a fistfight from which Pip emerges victorious. | |
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Gone Horribly Right | |
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Gone Horribly Right: Estella is raised by Miss Havisham to be the perfect seductress from the time she's young as part of a revenge-by-proxy against all men. By the time she's an adult she is indeed the perfect seductress: a beautiful Manipulative Bitch who "has no heart" and can't feel or give love either to good guy Pip or Miss Havisham. | |
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Remake Cameo: Jean Simmons (Young Estella in the 1946 adaptation) would later play Miss Havisham in Great Expectations (1989). | |
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Nouveau Riche | |
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Nouveau Riche: Though Pip was discontent with his lower-class upbringing even before he came into money, his newfound fortune just makes this worse. He has to learn how to navigate wealthy society once he receives his inheritance. | |
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Screw the Rules, I Have Money! | |
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Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Magwitch's illegal return from Australia, which prompts Pip to have a Screw the Money, I Have Rules! epiphany. | |
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Genre Deconstruction | |
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Genre Deconstruction: The novel is a rare case of a writer deconstructing all of his previous work. All the normal tropes of Dickens novels (the Changeling Fantasy, saintly dying women, mysterious benefactors, long-lost relatives, etc.) happen like clockwork. Then these tropes are revealed to be a malevolent lie created to manipulate the hero - who has been so morally ruined that he's more like an Anti-Hero. | |
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Spiritual Successor | |
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Spiritual Successor: To David Copperfield. They both trace the psychological and moral development of a young boy to maturity, his transition from a rural environment to the London metropolis, the vicissitudes of his emotional development, and the exhibition of his hopes and youthful dreams and their metamorphosis, through a rich and complex first person narrative. Dickens was conscious of this similarity and, before undertaking his new manuscript, reread David Copperfield to avoid repetition. | |
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Oblivious to Love: Right at the start, though he realizes it later. For goodness' sake, Pip, Biddy is right there! | |
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Defrosting Ice Queen | |
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Defrosting Ice Queen: Estella has thawed by the final chapter. | |
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Stopped Clock | |
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Stopped Clock: Miss Havisham has all the clocks in her house stopped at twenty minutes to nine — the moment she learned she had been jilted on her wedding day. | |
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Could Say It, But... | |
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Could Say It, But...: Jaggers refuses to confirm or deny his actions involving a certain foundling child, but he puts it to Pip as a purely hypothetical case, which allows him to go into detail without technically admitting anything. | |
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Break the Haughty | |
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Break the Haughty: Both Pip and Estella. | |
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She Is All Grown Up | |
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She Is All Grown Up: When Pip returns to Miss Havisham's after an absence of many years, he completely fails to recognize the beautiful young woman attending Miss Havisham, until the woman looks directly at him and he recognizes Estella's eyes. | |
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Hidden Depths | |
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Jaggers is unpleasant to be around and is certainly a grey-morality type of guy, but reveals Hidden Depths by the end. | |
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Narrative Profanity Filter: A character's repeated uses of the word "damn" are printed as "bless". It's unclear whether this is censored or whether it's what he's actually saying. | |
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Older Than They Look | |
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Older Than They Look: Although Miss Havisham has often been portrayed in film versions as very elderly, Dickens's own notes indicate that she is only in her mid-thirties at the start of the novel. However, it is indicated in the novel that her long life away from the sunlight has aged her. | |
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Self-Fulfilling Prophecy | |
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Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Compeyson is terrified that Magwitch will kill him. His very actions to dispose of Magwitch by getting him arrested not only alert Magwitch to his presence (as Magwitch didn't even know he was still alive), but gives him the opening to actually kill Compeyson. | |
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Age-Appropriate Angst: The book comments specifically on this in its opening chapters as Pip deals with the burden of living as a largely ignored and undervalued orphan: | |
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Waking Up Elsewhere | |
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Waking Up Elsewhere: After the death of the old convict, Pip runs home and falls into his bed in a fever, only to discover on his waking that he is now at Joe's house. | |
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Distant Finale | |
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Distant Finale: The last chapter is set 11 years after the story has been wrapped up. | |
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Fast-Forward to Reunion: The ending, where Pip and Estella meet again. The circumstances of their reunion depends on which version of the ending you read: there's one where Estella is happily married, and one where she isn't, implying that she and Pip may have a future together. | |
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Teasing from Behind the Language Barrier | |
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Teasing from Behind the Language Barrier: In the 1998 movie, after spending a night with Pip, Estella tells him in French "Je vais aller en France demain" ("I have to go to France tomorrow"), assuming he wouldn't understand. He doesn't, and is really surprised the next day when he finds out that she left him. | |
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Anguished Declaration of Love | |
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Anguished Declaration of Love: Pip to Estella. It has no effect on Estella, but does bring on Miss Havisham's one of the most literal and redundant cases ever of What Have I Done ("and again, ten, twenty, fifty times, what had she done?") | |
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Gentle Giant | |
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Joe Gargery is a Gentle Giant, respected by everyone, and the only person (along with Biddy) to be genuinely kind to Pip during his childhood. | |
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Meaningful Appearance | |
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Meaningful Appearance: Miss Havisham's backstory and refusal to move on are conveyed through the aged wedding dress she refuses to take off. She wears it in all of her scenes, which motivates Pippin to discover the circumstances behind her abandonment at the altar. | |
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Face Death with Dignity: Magwitch goes peacefully, knowing that he's had revenge on Compeyson and believing (thanks to Pip's judicious lie) that Estella grew up to be happy. | |
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Runaway Groom: Easily the most famous case of this is Miss Havisham's runaway groom Compeyson. He only got close to her to defraud her of her money and once he completed this, he sent her a letter informing her of the truth just short of the wedding and then beat town. Miss Havisham goes crazy and hates men for the rest of her life. | |
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"Pip" has several meanings. One is a seed, and given that the book is all about his Character Development, growing from a child into a mature adult, this meaning is very appropriate. The word can also refer to the symbols on playing cards (hearts and spades and so on), signifying how Pip is used as a pawn or a symbol, with little agency of his own. | |
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Took a Level in Kindness: Estella at the ending; her misery in her abusive relationship with Drummle has made her into a person with feelings for the first time. | |
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Captain Obvious | |
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Captain Obvious: Estella introducing Pip. "Whom have we here?" "A boy". Knowing her, she does it on purpose. | |
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Staggered Zoom | |
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Staggered Zoom: The 1999 miniseries ends with a Staggered Zoom out from Pip and Estella as they play cards in Satis House. | |
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Balcony Wooing Scene | |
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Balcony Wooing Scene: In one of the movies, Ethan Hawke yells "Everything I have ever does has been for you!" from the street-level. The receiving Estella is aloof to his affection. | |
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IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy | |
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I Just Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Even after he learns he was never meant for Estella, Pip still begs her to reject the abusive Drummle and marry someone who actually loves her. | |
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Pre-Insanity Reveal | |
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Pre-Insanity Reveal: Miss Havisham used to be sane, but went mad after discovering that her fiancé had swindled her out of her fortune and run off on what was supposed to be their wedding day. She shut herself off from the rest of the world, never leaving her house or even changing out of her wedding dress, and eventually conceived of a plan to adopt a girl so that she could raise her to break men's hearts the way that her fiancé broke hers. | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Jaggers is unpleasant to be around and is certainly a grey-morality type of guy, but reveals Hidden Depths by the end. Wemmick, who is a hard-edged clerk at the office and dotes on his Aged Parent at home. | |
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Intergenerational Friendship | |
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Intergenerational Friendship: Pip and Joe, his older sister's husband. | |
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Big Fancy House | |
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Big Fancy House: Subverted. Satis House used to be one of these. | |
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Funetik Aksent | |
| Great Expectations / int_48d9e12d | comment |
Funetik Aksent: A minor Jewish character speaks with a lithp, which was considered a stereotypically Jewish trait at the time. | |
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| Great Expectations / int_4b316d47 | type |
Break the Cutie | |
| Great Expectations / int_4b316d47 | comment |
Break the Cutie: Compeyson did this to Miss Havisham, who does the same with Estella. | |
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| Great Expectations / int_4c961994 | type |
Acquired Situational Narcissism | |
| Great Expectations / int_4c961994 | comment |
Acquired Situational Narcissism: When Pip becomes a gentleman he also becomes a snob and distances himself from Joe; he ignores Joe's letters unless they mention Estella, and he thinks Joe makes an absolute disaster of himself in London. He doesn't reconcile with Joe and Biddy until he loses the money. | |
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| Great Expectations / int_4d0372b | type |
Everybody Knew Already | |
| Great Expectations / int_4d0372b | comment |
Everybody Knew Already: Pip confides in Herbert about his love for Estella, to which Herbert replies, "Exactly. Well?" When Pip asks him how he knew, Herbert exclaims, "Told me! You have never told me when you have got your hair cut, but I have had senses to perceive it. You have always adored her, ever since I have known you. You brought your adoration and your portmanteau here, together. Told me! Why, you have always told me all day long." Unlike most other examples on this page, Pip feels relieved instead of annoyed that his secret was known all along. | |
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| Great Expectations / int_4f10672d | type |
Wrong Guy First | |
| Great Expectations / int_4f10672d | comment |
Wrong Guy First: Assuming that the Maybe Ever After ending pays off, that is. But Estella is certainly better off with Pip than with the abusive Drummle. | |
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Great Expectations / int_4f10672d | |
| Great Expectations / int_5028baf2 | type |
What Is This Thing You Call "Love"? | |
| Great Expectations / int_5028baf2 | comment |
What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: The beautiful but icy Estella claims to Pip that she has no heart, implicitly as a result of Miss Havisham's raising of her as a breaker of men's hearts. When Miss Havisham entreats for her love and affection in return for hers, she coolly replies that she cannot give her back what she has never been given. She is later defrosted by Pip, if you follow the revised ending or movie adaptations. | |
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Great Expectations / int_5028baf2 | |
| Great Expectations / int_52196c03 | type |
Age-Gap Romance | |
| Great Expectations / int_52196c03 | comment |
Age-Gap Romance: Joe and Biddy marry, long after the death of Mrs. Joe. Biddy is much younger than her husband. | |
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Great Expectations / int_52196c03 | |
| Great Expectations / int_53136954 | type |
Book Dumb | |
| Great Expectations / int_53136954 | comment |
Book Dumb: Joe Gargery. Illiterate, but generous of spirit. | |
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| Great Expectations / int_54367e5d | type |
Mathematician's Answer | |
| Great Expectations / int_54367e5d | comment |
Mathematician's Answer: Pip is asking Herbert about Herbert's prospective father-in-law. | |
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Great Expectations / int_54367e5d | |
| Great Expectations / int_590eb583 | type |
Domestic Abuse | |
| Great Expectations / int_590eb583 | comment |
Domestic Abuse: Pip's sister is physically and emotionally abusive toward her husband Joe, and to Pip himself. Ironically, Joe's mother was abused when he was younger and because of that he fears he will put his own wife (Pip's sister) through the same thing. So, he is rather passive towards her, with the irony being that he is now the abused one and puts up with his wife's abuse of himself and Pip. He does his best to protect him in his own way, though. Once she marries Drummle -much to Pip's utter horror, Estella suffers so badly from this that her marriage ends in separation. | |
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| Great Expectations / int_5bb60a3c | type |
The Presents Were Never from Santa | |
| Great Expectations / int_5bb60a3c | comment |
The Presents Were Never from Santa: Pip believes his sudden endowment to be from Miss Havisham to groom him into a proper husband for her ward, Estella. He's quite shocked to find otherwise. Played With because he knows for a fact that he does have an anonymous benefactor, it's just his guess is incorrect; it's actually the convict he helped at the beginning of the book. | |
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Great Expectations / int_5bb60a3c | |
| Great Expectations / int_5bdcc85a | type |
Disney Villain Death | |
| Great Expectations / int_5bdcc85a | comment |
Disney Villain Death: Subverted with Compeyson, who meets his end when he falls into a river and drowns after Magwitch attacks him. | |
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Great Expectations / int_5bdcc85a | |
| Great Expectations / int_5ce7dbb9 | type |
Central Theme | |
| Great Expectations / int_5ce7dbb9 | comment |
Central Theme: The title's "Expectations" refers to "a legacy to come" and thus immediately announces that money, or more specifically wealth plays an important part in the novel. Some other major themes are crime, social class, including both gentility, and social alienation, imperialism and ambition. The novel is also concerned with questions relating to conscience and moral regeneration, as well as redemption through love. | |
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Great Expectations / int_5ce7dbb9 | |
| Great Expectations / int_5f173ee4 | type |
I Kiss Your Hand | |
| Great Expectations / int_5f173ee4 | comment |
I Kiss Your Hand: Pip does this to Miss Havisham twice, before going to London and after returning. | |
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Great Expectations / int_5f173ee4 | |
| Great Expectations / int_5f49ac76 | type |
Single-Target Sexuality | |
| Great Expectations / int_5f49ac76 | comment |
Single-Target Sexuality: From the time he's a child, Pip has eyes only for Estella. | |
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| Great Expectations / int_60547993 | type |
I Want My Beloved to Be Happy | |
| Great Expectations / int_60547993 | comment |
Once she marries Drummle -much to Pip's utter horror, Estella suffers so badly from this that her marriage ends in separation. | |
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| Great Expectations / int_61356a74 | type |
Almost Dead Guy | |
| Great Expectations / int_61356a74 | comment |
Almost Dead Guy: Magwitch. Pip visits him for a last time to tell him about his daughter, upon which the old man passes on peacefully. In the 1946 adaptation his head nods melodramatically to one side. | |
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| Great Expectations / int_61b8f9e2 | type |
Bunny-Ears Lawyer | |
| Great Expectations / int_61b8f9e2 | comment |
Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Wemmick is the no-nonsense assistant of Jaggers who spends time with his father ("The Aged Parent") at a whimsical, out-of-the-way cottage in his spare time. | |
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Great Expectations / int_61b8f9e2 | |
| Great Expectations / int_648fe274 | type |
But for Me, It Was Tuesday | |
| Great Expectations / int_648fe274 | comment |
But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Pip is rattled when he reminds Estella of how she made him cry the day they first met, and she replies that she doesn't remember. | |
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Great Expectations / int_648fe274 | |
| Great Expectations / int_66dfe36a | type |
Missing Mom | |
| Great Expectations / int_66dfe36a | comment |
Missing Mom: Pip lost his mother and was left to be raised by his older sister and her husband. | |
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Great Expectations / int_66dfe36a | |
| Great Expectations / int_6977c45e | type |
Purple Prose | |
| Great Expectations / int_6977c45e | comment |
Purple Prose: Pip describes how beautiful Estella is pretty much every time she appears, which goes dangerously into Purple Prose territory. Justified in that Pip was a child who had fallen in love, and since the story is told from his perspective it makes sense that he would think like this. It's also quite possible that Dickens intended the descriptions to be somewhat silly, considering how much emphasis the book places on Pip outgrowing his childishness. | |
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Great Expectations / int_6977c45e | |
| Great Expectations / int_69cc2a27 | type |
Hilariously Abusive Childhood | |
| Great Expectations / int_69cc2a27 | comment |
Hilariously Abusive Childhood: The scenes detailing Pip's childhood (being "brought up by hand" by his volatile sister) are treated comically in his narration, probably because he's laughing at it all in retrospect. | |
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| Great Expectations / int_6b2b3b59 | type |
The Reveal | |
| Great Expectations / int_6b2b3b59 | comment |
The Reveal: The story is pretty straightforward, up until you get to the end of Part II, in which Pip's benefactor turns out to be none other than Abel Magwitch, the convict he helped early in the first chapter, who just so happens to be a very rich felon. From there, almost every chapter in the book contains its own plot twist (which makes sense, as the book was orignally released as a serial). | |
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Great Expectations / int_6b2b3b59 | |
| Great Expectations / int_6bda9a30 | type |
Meaningful Name | |
| Great Expectations / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Meaningful Name: Satis (Enough) House. Estella is as beautiful, remote and lonely as her name suggests. Miss Havisham's (Have is sham) name foreshadows the deceptive nature of material wealth. "Pip" has several meanings. One is a seed, and given that the book is all about his Character Development, growing from a child into a mature adult, this meaning is very appropriate. The word can also refer to the symbols on playing cards (hearts and spades and so on), signifying how Pip is used as a pawn or a symbol, with little agency of his own. | |
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Great Expectations / int_6bda9a30 | |
| Great Expectations / int_6ceb0471 | type |
UnrequitedLove | |
| Great Expectations / int_6ceb0471 | comment |
Unrequited Love: Poor Pip spends most of his life pining for Estella, even though everyone (including Estella herself) tells him he has absolutely no chance. | |
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Great Expectations / int_6ceb0471 | |
| Great Expectations / int_6d0a1b85 | type |
The Shut-In | |
| Great Expectations / int_6d0a1b85 | comment |
The Shut-In: Miss Havisham was jilted on her wedding day and spent the rest of her life shut up in her mansion, still wearing her wedding dress, as the house decays around her. | |
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Great Expectations / int_6d0a1b85 | |
| Great Expectations / int_6fb59931 | type |
Being Personal Isn't Professional | |
| Great Expectations / int_6fb59931 | comment |
Being Personal Isn't Professional: John Wemmick is like this. At the office of Mr. Jaggers, he's a humorless, slightly unpleasant man who is devoted to the acquisition of 'portable property', while at home he is a joyful, caring, and generally amiable fellow who lived with his ancient father in a whimsical house built like a tiny castle. He's very insistent that his personal and professional lives don't cross. | |
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Great Expectations / int_6fb59931 | |
| Great Expectations / int_72852a93 | type |
Henpecked Husband | |
| Great Expectations / int_72852a93 | comment |
Henpecked Husband: Joe. He's quite content with life, though, and never lets his wife's temper get to him. Joe's traumatic childhood meant he and his mother were frequently abused and when he grew up, because of that, he would never raise his hand to a woman. | |
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| Great Expectations / int_73733868 | type |
Awesomeness by Analysis | |
| Great Expectations / int_73733868 | comment |
Awesomeness by Analysis: Biddy spends so much time watching Pip that he pronounces her, "In theory...as good a blacksmith as I was." | |
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| Great Expectations / int_738d1a0f | type |
Because You Were Nice to Me | |
| Great Expectations / int_738d1a0f | comment |
Because You Were Nice to Me: Magwitch spends years trying to enrich Pip because Pip delivered food to him when he was on the run and starving. Of course, he didn't give the boy much choice in the matter. | |
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| Great Expectations / int_754df088 | type |
Put on a Bus | |
| Great Expectations / int_754df088 | comment |
Put on a Bus: After Pip is apprenticed to Joe, Estella goes off to study abroad. | |
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Great Expectations / int_754df088 | |
| Great Expectations / int_758cbe0c | type |
Prison Ship | |
| Great Expectations / int_758cbe0c | comment |
Prison Ship: Magwitch has escaped from a prison ship, and is transported to Australia on one. | |
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Great Expectations / int_758cbe0c | |
| Great Expectations / int_767f84ea | type |
Does Not Like Men | |
| Great Expectations / int_767f84ea | comment |
Does Not Like Men: An understatement regarding Miss Havisham. | |
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| Great Expectations / int_76cbbc0b | type |
George Lucas Altered Version | |
| Great Expectations / int_76cbbc0b | comment |
George Lucas Altered Version: Dickens famously altered his original draft with its Did Not Get the Girl ending to a Maybe Ever After ending prior to publication. However, he wasn't done tweaking. The original published version ends with the sentence "I could see the shadow of no parting from her." When a new edition was published in 1868, Dickens changed the last sentence to "I could see no shadow of another parting from her." Critics have suggested that the tweak was done to make the Maybe Ever After ending a little more uncertain. | |
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| Great Expectations / int_77552932 | type |
Character Shilling | |
| Great Expectations / int_77552932 | comment |
Character Shilling: In-universe, Miss Haversham constantly describes Estella's beauty and allure to Pip. | |
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| Great Expectations / int_77b03c0a | type |
Remember the New Guy? | |
| Great Expectations / int_77b03c0a | comment |
Remember the New Guy?: It isn't until chapter 15 that we learn that Joe has had another apprentice all along; apparently Pip just never thought to mention Orlick before. (In reality, this was because the novel was originaly published serially, meaning Dickens couldn't go back to add the new character to earlier chapters.) | |
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Great Expectations / int_77b03c0a | |
| Great Expectations / int_78be795b | type |
Changeling Fantasy | |
| Great Expectations / int_78be795b | comment |
Changeling Fantasy: Subverted — Pip gains a mysterious, wealthy benefactor and believes that it is Miss Havisham's plan to pair him up with Estella, the young woman he loves, but it turns out that his actual benefactor is the escaped convict he helped at the beginning of the story — Miss Havisham had nothing to do with it. | |
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Great Expectations / int_78be795b | |
| Great Expectations / int_796a7bfc | type |
Twice-Told Tale | |
| Great Expectations / int_796a7bfc | comment |
Twice-Told Tale: Peter Carey's Jack Maggs and Ronald Frame's Havisham (both of which also qualify as a Start of Darkness). | |
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| Great Expectations / int_7a82c3d2 | type |
All Love Is Unrequited | |
| Great Expectations / int_7a82c3d2 | comment |
All Love Is Unrequited: Pip has unrequited feelings for Estella, who was raised by Miss Havisham to be an unfeeling Ice Queen who breaks boys' hearts. When so many men fall in love with her, Estella elects to marry the absolute worst of all her suitors, just to spite and hurt the others (including Pip). She suffers in an abusive marriage for years. Pip, after realizing his feelings for his childhood friend Biddy, tries to start a relationship with her, only to learn that she was already in relationship with Joe. | |
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Great Expectations / int_7a82c3d2 | |
| Great Expectations / int_7cf2f728 | type |
Boomerang Bigot | |
| Great Expectations / int_7cf2f728 | comment |
Boomerang Bigot: A young and suggestible Pip turns on everything he considers "common" after Estella disparages him for being common. This comes back to bite him. | |
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| Great Expectations / int_7cfeef98 | type |
Narrative Filigree | |
| Great Expectations / int_7cfeef98 | comment |
Narrative Filigree: Dickens did this throughout his career, filling his story with asides and meanderings. One entire chapter stops the plot dead, as Pip and Herbert go to see Mr. Wopsle's disastrous production of Hamlet. | |
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Great Expectations / int_7cfeef98 | |
| Great Expectations / int_7d93efb | type |
Stellar Name | |
| Great Expectations / int_7d93efb | comment |
Estella is as beautiful, remote and lonely as her name suggests. | |
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| Great Expectations / int_7f0f19e5 | type |
I Coulda Been a Contender! | |
| Great Expectations / int_7f0f19e5 | comment |
I Coulda Been a Contender!: Subverted—Pip learns to resign himself to being, at best, a mildly successful businessman. | |
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Great Expectations / int_7f0f19e5 | |
| Great Expectations / int_7f8fd503 | type |
Lonely at the Top | |
| Great Expectations / int_7f8fd503 | comment |
Lonely at the Top: Pip becomes a wealthy gentleman, abandoning his poor but decent friends back home and becoming as shallow as the Rich Bitches he's surrounded with to do so. And he doesn't even get the girl. (He only gets her in the revised ending, depending which one.) | |
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Great Expectations / int_7f8fd503 | |
| Great Expectations / int_823c6e3e | type |
Large Ham | |
| Great Expectations / int_823c6e3e | comment |
Large Ham: Mr. Wopsle, the clerk at the village church, is described as having "a deep voice which he was uncommonly proud of", and delivers both his contributions to church services and the grace at Christmas dinner as if he were acting in a Shakespeare tragedy. Since he lacks the formal education to join the clergy, he decides to put the oratorical gifts he believes he possesses to better use as a professional actor, with limited success at best. | |
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Great Expectations / int_823c6e3e | |
| Great Expectations / int_82af0940 | type |
Jacob Marley Warning | |
| Great Expectations / int_82af0940 | comment |
Jacob Marley Warning: Pip can become either Jaggers (the bad choice) or Herbert (the good choice). | |
| Great Expectations / int_82af0940 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Great Expectations / int_82af0940 | |
| Great Expectations / int_831b0a18 | type |
Intentional Heartbreaker | |
| Great Expectations / int_831b0a18 | comment |
Intentional Heartbreaker: Estella Havisham is Pip's love interest, whom he thinks he's being groomed to wed because he's under the mistaken belief that her adopted mother, Miss Havisham, is his secret benefactor helping to advance him in society. In reality, Miss Havisham has been grooming Estella to be her weapon to take revenge on men in general by making them fall in love with her then breaking their hearts. Estella herself claims she has no real affections for anyone due to her training. | |
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Great Expectations / int_831b0a18 | |
| Great Expectations / int_85ca9dab | type |
Second Love | |
| Great Expectations / int_85ca9dab | comment |
Second Love: Subverted. Pip returns to Biddy with the intention of proposing only for her to have already accepted Joe's. Poor kid can't get a break. | |
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Great Expectations / int_85ca9dab | |
| Great Expectations / int_8c608864 | type |
Digging to China | |
| Great Expectations / int_8c608864 | comment |
Digging to China: "Without remarking that man-traps were not among the amenities of life, I said I supposed he was very skilful? 'Deep,' said Wemmick, 'as Australia.' Pointing with his pen at the office floor, to express that Australia was understood, for the purposes of the figure, to be symmetrically on the opposite spot of the globe." | |
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Great Expectations / int_8c608864 | |
| Great Expectations / int_8cb1a369 | type |
Took a Level in Jerkass | |
| Great Expectations / int_8cb1a369 | comment |
Took a Level in Jerkass: Pip, due to his exposure to Miss Havisham and Estella. | |
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Great Expectations / int_8cb1a369 | |
| Great Expectations / int_8d463bfd | type |
Parenthetical Swearing | |
| Great Expectations / int_8d463bfd | comment |
Parenthetical Swearing: One scene has Pip's sister say "Lord bless the boy!" in a way that makes it sound quite the opposite. | |
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1.0 | |
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Great Expectations / int_8d463bfd | |
| Great Expectations / int_8e0075dc | type |
I Would Say If I Could Say | |
| Great Expectations / int_8e0075dc | comment |
I Would Say If I Could Say: Jaggers is fond of this. Wemmick at one point too. | |
| Great Expectations / int_8e0075dc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Great Expectations / int_8e0075dc | |
| Great Expectations / int_8e7ada2c | type |
Technically a Smile | |
| Great Expectations / int_8e7ada2c | comment |
Technically a Smile: When Wemmick smiles at Pip, Pip notes it to be a hollow and somewhat unsettling gesture. It's especially odd because otherwise, Wemmick is a pleasant and kind man. | |
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Great Expectations / int_8e7ada2c | |
| Great Expectations / int_8ed5c6e4 | type |
Asshole Victim | |
| Great Expectations / int_8ed5c6e4 | comment |
Asshole Victim: Pip's sister and Compeyson. | |
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1.0 | |
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Great Expectations / int_8ed5c6e4 | |
| Great Expectations / int_90b66e22 | type |
Femme Fatale | |
| Great Expectations / int_90b66e22 | comment |
Femme Fatale: Estella was bred to become this by Miss Havisham. | |
| Great Expectations / int_90b66e22 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Great Expectations / int_90b66e22 | |
| Great Expectations / int_90d44f44 | type |
Karmic Death | |
| Great Expectations / int_90d44f44 | comment |
Karmic Death: Drummle, after abusing Estella for their entire marriage, is killed by a horse he'd mistreated. | |
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Great Expectations / int_90d44f44 | |
| Great Expectations / int_9591377d | type |
Heel Realization | |
| Great Expectations / int_9591377d | comment |
Heel Realization: When Miss Havisham finally tells Pip that he will not be allowed to marry Estella, and sees the pain in him that she had been waiting for, she is ultimately not satisfied at all and is only left feeling that she did the exact same thing to him that her fiancé did to her (as well as ruining Estella's chances at a normal life in the name of petty Revenge by Proxy). By the time Pip next meets her, she's gone from sadistic old woman to a suicidal wreck willing to part with vast amounts of her fortune to try to make it up to him. | |
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Great Expectations / int_9591377d | |
| Great Expectations / int_959cb9aa | type |
One Degree of Separation | |
| Great Expectations / int_959cb9aa | comment |
One Degree of Separation: Not only is Magwitch Estella's father, but Compeyson, who was on the run with Magwitch, was Miss Havisham's former lover. | |
| Great Expectations / int_959cb9aa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Great Expectations / int_959cb9aa | |
| Great Expectations / int_970c790a | type |
Big Bad | |
| Great Expectations / int_970c790a | comment |
Big Bad: The deceptive and equally cruel Compeyson. He ruins Miss Havisham by pretending to love her, inheriting a lot of money from her (which was his goal the entire time) and then abandoning her before their supposed marriage and running away with the money. He is also a dangerous criminal, but meets his ultimate doom when Magwitch (whose life he also ruined by using him as a scapegoat to avoid being convicted of his crimes) drowns him. | |
| Great Expectations / int_970c790a | featureApplicability |
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Great Expectations / int_970c790a | |
| Great Expectations / int_973d220f | type |
Never My Fault | |
| Great Expectations / int_973d220f | comment |
Never My Fault: Orlick, who, as Pip points out, is responsible for his own misfortune and reputation due to his bad attitude, but still blames Pip for all of it. This leads to him crippling Pip's sister and trying to kill Pip himself later on. | |
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Great Expectations / int_973d220f | |
| Great Expectations / int_98591d23 | type |
Speech Impediment | |
| Great Expectations / int_98591d23 | comment |
Speech Impediment: Abraham Lazarus, the Jewish man who accosts Jaggers, has a prominent lisp, and adds H's in front of vowels at the beginnings of words. One of the Pockets' children is too young to enunciate properly, despite being mature enough to make sure her idiot mother doesn't negligently let the baby hurt itself, and keep doing so even after she's been rebuked for her impertinence. | |
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Great Expectations / int_98591d23 | |
| Great Expectations / int_9b34ee31 | type |
Marriage of Convenience | |
| Great Expectations / int_9b34ee31 | comment |
Marriage of Convenience: Miss Havisham raises Estella to be a heartless man-eater who woos men only to completely deny them, and then marries the most boring, rich man she can find so that she can continue doing so but with money. She then grows a heart by being cold when a horse kills her husband and questionably finally gets together with Pip. Miss Havisham trains Estella to want these things because she (Miss H) was left at the altar by the man she wanted to Marry for Love, because he is a criminal. | |
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Great Expectations / int_9b34ee31 | |
| Great Expectations / int_9c73b5b2 | type |
Let Them Die Happy | |
| Great Expectations / int_9c73b5b2 | comment |
Let Them Die Happy: While he knows she's unlikely happy with Drummle, Pip tells Magwitch that his daughter lived and has become a beautiful young lady so the man can die happy. | |
| Great Expectations / int_9c73b5b2 | featureApplicability |
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Great Expectations / int_9c73b5b2 | |
| Great Expectations / int_9d12bbc1 | type |
Foreshadowing | |
| Great Expectations / int_9d12bbc1 | comment |
Foreshadowing: Pip has brief visions of Miss Havisham's death. | |
| Great Expectations / int_9d12bbc1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Great Expectations / int_9d12bbc1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Great Expectations / int_9d12bbc1 | |
| Great Expectations / int_9e1e14ea | type |
Ambition Is Evil | |
| Great Expectations / int_9e1e14ea | comment |
Ambition Is Evil: Pip's infatuation with Estella. Because of her, he wants to be richer and have a better social status, causing him to become ashamed of his perfectly respectable origins, become ungrateful to his hard-working older sister who raised him (even if she was abusive), patronize his childhood friend Biddy and try to "improve" Joe, the nicest character in the book, so that he can meet Estella's standards. | |
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Great Expectations / int_9e1e14ea | |
| Great Expectations / int_a00edcf2 | type |
Extremely Dusty Home | |
| Great Expectations / int_a00edcf2 | comment |
Extremely Dusty Home: Miss Havisham's home has not been cleaned or dusted since her aborted wedding twenty-odd years before. Two decades of cobwebs and dust cover everything. | |
| Great Expectations / int_a00edcf2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Great Expectations / int_a00edcf2 | |
| Great Expectations / int_a1b141f4 | type |
My God, What Have I Done? | |
| Great Expectations / int_a1b141f4 | comment |
My God, What Have I Done?: Miss Havisham's lament when she realizes how she's warped Estella's ability to feel. Averted in another instance; upon discovering how warped Estella has become, Mr. Jaggers acknowledges that it is very unfortunate that she ended up that way, but (quite rightly) doesn't feel responsible for it, since he deliberately went out of his way to do the right thing based on the information he had at the time and had no way of knowing how it would turn out. | |
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Great Expectations / int_a1b141f4 | |
| Great Expectations / int_a2492aff | type |
Dogged Nice Guy | |
| Great Expectations / int_a2492aff | comment |
Dogged Nice Guy: The Ur-Example with Pip towards Estella. She tells him many times that she can't love anyone, but Pip simply cannot break free. | |
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1.0 | |
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Great Expectations / int_a2492aff | |
| Great Expectations / int_a8dcb1d7 | type |
Love at First Sight | |
| Great Expectations / int_a8dcb1d7 | comment |
Love at First Sight: The moment Pip sees Estella for the first time, he's essentially dooming himself to years of pain. | |
| Great Expectations / int_a8dcb1d7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Great Expectations / int_a8dcb1d7 | |
| Great Expectations / int_aacc7ea6 | type |
Tyke-Bomb | |
| Great Expectations / int_aacc7ea6 | comment |
Tyke-Bomb: Miss Havisham was left at the altar and swore revenge against all men, so she adopted a baby girl named Estella and raised her to be a sociopathic heart-breaker. | |
| Great Expectations / int_aacc7ea6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Great Expectations / int_aacc7ea6 | |
| Great Expectations / int_ae3d6438 | type |
Deadpan Snarker | |
| Great Expectations / int_ae3d6438 | comment |
Deadpan Snarker: Estella. | |
| Great Expectations / int_ae3d6438 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Great Expectations / int_ae3d6438 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Great Expectations / int_ae3d6438 | |
| Great Expectations / int_af4d6174 | type |
Setting Update | |
| Great Expectations / int_af4d6174 | comment |
Setting Update: The 1998 movie moves the story to the present day. | |
| Great Expectations / int_af4d6174 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Great Expectations / int_af4d6174 | |
| Great Expectations / int_b11ac9f5 | type |
Abusive Parents | |
| Great Expectations / int_b11ac9f5 | comment |
Abusive Parents: Joe recalls how his father would "hammer" his mother and him, and when they tried to flee, he united their neighbors to shame them into coming home where he would hammer them again. | |
| Great Expectations / int_b11ac9f5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Great Expectations / int_b11ac9f5 | |
| Great Expectations / int_b26cc887 | type |
Just Between You and Me | |
| Great Expectations / int_b26cc887 | comment |
Just Between You and Me: Orlick confesses to attacking Mrs. Joe and spying on Pip. | |
| Great Expectations / int_b26cc887 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Great Expectations / int_b26cc887 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Great Expectations | hasFeature |
Great Expectations / int_b26cc887 | |
| Great Expectations / int_b707726f | type |
Hypocritical Humor | |
| Great Expectations / int_b707726f | comment |
Hypocritical Humor: Pip attends a very bad amateur production of Hamlet. At the point where the actor playing Hamlet speaks the line "Don't saw the air thus", a heckler points out that the actor is doing exactly the same thing. | |
| Great Expectations / int_b707726f | featureApplicability |
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Great Expectations / int_b707726f | |
| Great Expectations / int_b97c2cfb | type |
Maybe Ever After | |
| Great Expectations / int_b97c2cfb | comment |
Maybe Ever After: The (revised) ending suggests that Pip and Estella shall never part. | |
| Great Expectations / int_b97c2cfb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Great Expectations / int_b97c2cfb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Great Expectations | hasFeature |
Great Expectations / int_b97c2cfb | |
| Great Expectations / int_b9db28ab | type |
Emotionless Girl | |
| Great Expectations / int_b9db28ab | comment |
Estella's suffering in her miserable, abusive marriage to the awful Drummle causes the former Emotionless Girl to develop a new ability for empathy. She says "I have been bent and broken, but—I hope—into a better shape." | |
| Great Expectations / int_b9db28ab | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Great Expectations / int_b9db28ab | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Great Expectations / int_b9db28ab | |
| Great Expectations / int_bbdf5f31 | type |
Everyone Is Related | |
| Great Expectations / int_bbdf5f31 | comment |
Everyone Is Related: Estella turns out to be the child of two characters Pip has had random encounters with: Abel Magwitch and Molly. In addition, the man who left Mrs. Havisham at the altar turns out to be the second escaped criminal that Pip saw when he first met Magwitch. | |
| Great Expectations / int_bbdf5f31 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Great Expectations / int_bbdf5f31 | |
| Great Expectations / int_bd9beaf4 | type |
Unexpected Inheritance | |
| Great Expectations / int_bd9beaf4 | comment |
Unexpected Inheritance: Pip receives inheritance completely out of left field, becomes rich and arrogant, finds out who his benefactor is, squanders money, gets the girl (it is implied at least), and becomes less arrogant. | |
| Great Expectations / int_bd9beaf4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Great Expectations / int_bd9beaf4 | |
| Great Expectations / int_bec0417c | type |
Happily Married | |
| Great Expectations / int_bec0417c | comment |
Happily Married: Joe and Biddy find true happiness with each other when Pip turns his back on both of them for different reasons (Joe because he reminds him of the humble origins he wants to rise above, Biddy because she is not Estella), and by the book's final chapter they have two children together (one named for Pip) for whom they are both adoring parents. | |
| Great Expectations / int_bec0417c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Great Expectations / int_bec0417c | |
| Great Expectations / int_c197275d | type |
Ethereal White Dress | |
| Great Expectations / int_c197275d | comment |
Ethereal White Dress: Miss Havisham is an old woman who always wears her white, tattered wedding dress, and she rarely leaves her room. Her character is utterly defined by her obsession with the man who left her at the altar, and she metaphorically died that day, becoming old, bitter, and refusing to grow. | |
| Great Expectations / int_c197275d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Great Expectations / int_c197275d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Great Expectations / int_c197275d | |
| Great Expectations / int_c1e6c92c | type |
UnluckyChildhoodFriend | |
| Great Expectations / int_c1e6c92c | comment |
Unlucky Childhood Friend: Biddy, who can't make any headway with Pip. Subverted when she is lucky enough to find true love with Joe. | |
| Great Expectations / int_c1e6c92c | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Great Expectations / int_c1e6c92c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Great Expectations | hasFeature |
Great Expectations / int_c1e6c92c | |
| Great Expectations / int_c2c30ef6 | type |
Angst | |
| Great Expectations / int_c2c30ef6 | comment |
Angst: A truckload, mostly by Pip, as a result of Estella's actions. | |
| Great Expectations / int_c2c30ef6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Great Expectations / int_c2c30ef6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Great Expectations | hasFeature |
Great Expectations / int_c2c30ef6 | |
| Great Expectations / int_c335b9ec | type |
Irony | |
| Great Expectations / int_c335b9ec | comment |
Pip's sister is physically and emotionally abusive toward her husband Joe, and to Pip himself. Ironically, Joe's mother was abused when he was younger and because of that he fears he will put his own wife (Pip's sister) through the same thing. So, he is rather passive towards her, with the irony being that he is now the abused one and puts up with his wife's abuse of himself and Pip. He does his best to protect him in his own way, though. | |
| Great Expectations / int_c335b9ec | featureApplicability |
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| Great Expectations / int_c335b9ec | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Great Expectations / int_c335b9ec | |
| Great Expectations / int_c5249b29 | type |
Nice Guy | |
| Great Expectations / int_c5249b29 | comment |
Nice Guy: Joe Gargery is a Gentle Giant, respected by everyone, and the only person (along with Biddy) to be genuinely kind to Pip during his childhood. Herbert Pocket, Pip's roommate, is a pleasant and happy fellow who strikes up a friendship with Pip immediately and provides a nice foil to Pip's melancholic temperament. Although he's less developed than the other two, Startop is a nice guy, who helps Pip in many ways. | |
| Great Expectations / int_c5249b29 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Great Expectations / int_c5249b29 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Great Expectations / int_c5249b29 | |
| Great Expectations / int_c772e7c5 | type |
Rags to Riches | |
| Great Expectations / int_c772e7c5 | comment |
Rags to Riches: A mysterious benefactor provides for Pip to be elevated from a lower-class lifestyle to live in London as a wealthy gentleman. Naturally, this doesn't quite turn out as well for Pip as he had hoped. | |
| Great Expectations / int_c772e7c5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Great Expectations / int_c772e7c5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Great Expectations / int_c772e7c5 | |
| Great Expectations / int_c83a589c | type |
Luke, I Am Your Father | |
| Great Expectations / int_c83a589c | comment |
Luke, I Am Your Father: Magwitch, a convict on the run, is revealed to be not just Estella's father, but also Pip's mysterious benefactor. | |
| Great Expectations / int_c83a589c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Great Expectations / int_c83a589c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Great Expectations | hasFeature |
Great Expectations / int_c83a589c | |
| Great Expectations / int_ca87e3ec | type |
No Name Given | |
| Great Expectations / int_ca87e3ec | comment |
No Name Given: Wemmick's father, who is referred to as "the Aged" by everyone, even his own son. | |
| Great Expectations / int_ca87e3ec | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Great Expectations / int_ca87e3ec | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Great Expectations | hasFeature |
Great Expectations / int_ca87e3ec | |
| Great Expectations / int_caa05cf | type |
Breach of Promise of Marriage | |
| Great Expectations / int_caa05cf | comment |
Breach of Promise of Marriage: Miss Havisham's fiancé abandoned her at the altar. She never got over it. | |
| Great Expectations / int_caa05cf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Great Expectations / int_caa05cf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Great Expectations | hasFeature |
Great Expectations / int_caa05cf | |
| Great Expectations / int_caf89e54 | type |
Taking You with Me | |
| Great Expectations / int_caf89e54 | comment |
Taking You with Me: Magwitch is captured, meaning he'll be executed for returning to England, but realizes Compeyson is within arm's reach. Even though he knows it'll ruin any chances of him not getting the death sentence, he grabs Compeyson and pulls him into the water where he drowns him. He also ultimately dies due to the injuries he sustained in the process. | |
| Great Expectations / int_caf89e54 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Great Expectations / int_caf89e54 | featureConfidence |
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Genre Mashup | |
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Genre Mashup: The book contains a variety of literary genres, including the bildungsroman, gothic novel, crime novel, as well as comedy, melodrama and satire; and it belongs—like Wuthering Heights and the novels of Walter Scott—to the romance rather than realist tradition of the novel. | |
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Misery Builds Character | |
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Misery Builds Character: The suffering and pain Pip goes through in the third act of the novel leaves him sadder but wiser, accounting for the mournful tone of his narration as he remembers what a jerkass he was. Estella's suffering in her miserable, abusive marriage to the awful Drummle causes the former Emotionless Girl to develop a new ability for empathy. She says "I have been bent and broken, but—I hope—into a better shape." | |
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Broken Bird | |
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Broken Bird: Estella, either when she lashes out at Miss Havisham or by the ending, when she's had to live with an abusive husband. | |
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Connected All Along: Dickens is famous for having a disproportionate number of characters find out that they're related to each other or met previously, and Great Expectations is no exception: Pip meets the convict more than once, Jaggers serves as the lawyer of at least three key characters, both of the escaped convicts turn out to be entwined in the other characters' stories, and Estella's parents are both sprinkled throughout the cast. In more detail: When we first meet them, Magwitch is an escaped convict who runs into Pip while the latter is visiting his parents' graves, and Compeyson is a fellow escapee. Miss Havisham is landlady to Joe's uncle, Pumblechook, while Estella is her ward and Jaggers is a guest at her birthday party. Molly is a maid in Jaggers' house in London. By the end of the novel, we have learned that Compeyson conspired with Miss Havisham's brother to leave her at the altar and abscond with her dowry. He and Magwitch were later arrested and convicted of circulating stolen money; Jaggers was Magwitch's lawyer in the trial. Magwitch and Molly had a daughter together, though Molly told Magwitch she had destroyed the child. When Jaggers represented Molly in a murder trial and got her acquitted, he resolved to spare her daughter a life of poverty and suffering that he believed would end in her early death, and agreed to the request of another of his clients to adopt her; that client was Miss Havisham, and the girl was Estella. | |
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Revised Ending: The book originally had a Bittersweet / Did Not Get the Girl ending in which Pip meets Estella one last time and finds out she has Happily Remarried, after which they part as friends. Dickens' friend and colleague Edward Bulwer-Lytton—that's right, the It Was a Dark and Stormy Night guy—got a sneak preview of the original ending, and recommended Dickens write a different ending which wasn't so downbeat. Dickens then wrote a more hopeful Maybe Ever After which was published. Dickens himself seemed content with the result. The original draft ending was not published until 1937; modern printings of the novel commonly include the original ending as an appendix (see Deleted Scene in the Trivia section). | |
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No Doubt the Years Have Changed Me | |
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No Doubt the Years Have Changed Me: When Estella and Pip meet at the ending after many years apart (Pip has been living abroad for 11 years), she says "I am greatly changed. I wonder you know me." | |
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Unusual Euphemism: "Tickler" is the nickname of the stick Pip's sister uses to beat him. | |
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The Blacksmith | |
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The Blacksmith: Humble Joe Gargery, working at his forge. Pip often wonders if he'd have been better off if he'd never heard of Estella, which would have left him content to be Joe's apprentice. | |
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Big Sister Bully: Pip's older sister is his guardian and verbally and physically thrashes him. | |
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Aloof Dark-Haired Girl | |
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Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: Estella, thanks to Miss Havisham's "training" of her. | |
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Red Herring | |
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Red Herring: Miss Havisham is constantly built up as Pip's mysterious benefactor, with large paragraphs devoted entirely to Pip revolving her possible motives and hidden mind games, until the end of the second volume, where it turns out to have been Abel Magwitch. | |
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Contrived Coincidence: The ending only comes about because Estella and Pip, neither of whom have been to Satis House in many years, both chance to visit it at the exact same time. | |
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Chekhov's Gunman | |
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Chekhov's Gunman: The escaped convict. | |
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Affectionate Nickname | |
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Affectionate Nickname: Herbert nicknames Pip "Handel," after the composer of the piece "The Harmonious Blacksmith" (reasoning that Pip was originally a blacksmith, and they get along harmoniously). For that matter, "Pip" is already a nickname for Philip. | |
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Unfortunate Names: Orlick claims his first name is Dolge, although Pip says this is "a clear impossibility" since he would never have been christened that in a church. | |
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Sentenced to Down Under: Happens to Magwitch. | |
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Social Climber: One reason why the book is regarded as highly mature is that Dickens finally critiques his use of the trope in showing the social-climbing hero Pip to be a bit of a snob in his yearning for social respectability, only to discover that the Mysterious Backer of his rise up the social ladder was not the rich Mrs. Haversham as he had assumed but the poor convict Magwitch. This starts his Character Development. | |
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Alone with the Psycho: Pip is captured and imprisoned by the violently insane Orlick. | |
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Fetishized Abuser: Estella is molded into becoming one by Miss Havisham. | |
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The Show Must Go Wrong: Mr. Wopsle stars in a production of Hamlet that is a complete disaster, with nonstop heckling from the crowd. Fortunately (?) he’s so Giftedly Bad that he doesn’t care. | |
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Mysterious Benefactor: An unknown person for unknown reasons suddenly bestows on Pip a large sum of money, and a place in London where he can learn to be a gentleman. | |
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Hate Sink: From the narration and flashbacks we are given, we learn that Compeyson's an absolutely cruel crook who regularly kicks his wife around, proposed to marry Miss Havisham just to emotionally ruin her and run off with her money, felt relief at his partner-in-crime Arthur dying of shame and over-drinking and pinned it all on poor Magwitch, whom he had forced under his thumb in the first place, condemning him to fourteen years in jail while he got off easy. In the two scenes he appears in, he proves to be nothing but a spineless coward whose ultimate demise is something satisfying indeed. | |
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Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder: Pip ignores Biddy's obvious love for him as he fruitlessly pursues Estella. After he realizes the error of his life choices, he returns to claim Biddy as his bride, only to find out she has married Joe instead. | |
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The Heckler | |
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The Heckler: After Mr. Wopsle moves to London to pursue his dream of professional acting, Pip and Herbert go to see him as the title character in a terrible production of Hamlet. The rest of the audience — particularly "a sulky man" in the front row of the gallery — heckles the players mercilessly, to Pip's embarrassment. | |
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No Full Name Given: Pip is raised by his sister and her husband Joe, but the sister's given name is never mentioned. She is only referred to as "Mrs. Joe" (even by her brother and husband) or "my sister" till near the end of the book, when Pumblechook states she “was Georgiana M'ria from her own mother." | |
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Big Damn Heroes: Herbert, Startop, and even Trabb's boy come to Pip's rescue in the last act. | |
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Jerkass: Estella, Drummle, Miss Havisham, Pip's sister, Pumblechook, sometimes Jaggers, and, once he becomes a gentleman, Pip himself. | |
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Human Head on the Wall | |
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Human Head on the Wall: A variation: Jaggers has masks of the petrified faces of criminals that he represented but who were hanged decorating his office. | |
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Love Martyr | |
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Love Martyr: Pip suffers for Estalla, poor chap. | |
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Self-Made Man | |
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Self-Made Man: The benefactor is a ringing example. From escaped convict to Wealthy Australian. | |
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One-Steve Limit: There is Georgiana, as in Pip's mother who he calls "Also Georgiana" early on, and a different Georgiana in the Pocket family. Of course, neither of them have much of an important role, so it's easily overlooked. Pip's sister is also named Georgiana after her mother, but her full name is only mentioned near the end of the book (most of the time she's just "my sister" or "Mrs. Joe"), so that's easy to overlook as well. | |
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Pick on Someone Your Own Size: Miss Havisham uses Pip as a proxy for the man who left her at the altar. Only at the point of death does she realize just how unfair she has been to both Pip and Estella. Not only age and gender but also social class factor into the power disparity: Havisham is a very wealthy dowager; Pip an orphan apprenticed to a blacksmith. | |
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Promotion to Parent: Pip was brought up by his (much older) sister and her husband after their parents died. | |
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Law of Inverse Fertility: The Pockets have been producing children at a rate that far outstrips Mr. Pocket's desire for them (or, for that matter, Mrs. Pocket's interest in them). | |
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Never Say "Die" | |
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Never Say "Die": Joe is reluctant to tell Pip that Miss Havisham has died as such, but his attempt at being delicate about it comes out to, "She ain't living." | |
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The Mourning After | |
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The Mourning After: Miss Havisham became a hermit in her own home after being betrayed and jilted by Compeyson, remaining dressed in her wedding dress with the clocks stopped at the time she was betrayed, and the rotten wedding feast in place. | |
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Love Makes You Evil | |
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Love Makes You Evil: Not so with anyone but Miss Havisham, so maybe it's more of a Freudian Excuse for her madness and obsessiveness. | |
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Have a Gay Old Time | |
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Have a Gay Old Time: Pops up a couple of times in conversation. | |
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Comically Missing the Point | |
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Comically Missing the Point: Herbert tells Pip about his fiance's elderly father. When Pip asks, "What does he live on?" Herbert replies, "The first floor." Pip was actually inquiring after the source of his income. | |
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Diving Save | |
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Diving Save: A variant in the waters where Pip saves the old convict from the wheels of the paddle steamer. | |
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Pet the Dog | |
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Pet the Dog: Despite cultivating the image of an Amoral Attorney, Jaggers' revelation of how he deliberately prevented the infant Estella from growing up among the "spawn" that he sees go to the gallows on a daily basis shows that he does have a heart. Also, Estella herself shows some compassion to Pip by telling him he needs to love elsewhere, as she is heartless (which actually means she's not entirely heartless). | |
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