TEXTS IN TIME

TEXTS IN TIME

1. Great Expectations - Dickens 1861

   • Social Mobility
     • Industrial Revolution
       • Led to shift in work in major cities led to overcrowding and poverty
       • Symbol "I took the time alone to look at my coarse hands and course boots
         • Although Estella is wealthy her life is depressing which contrasts the poorer who without wealth still find happiness
       • Ironic Motif - Gentleman. It is ironic than Pip loses his inner gentleman qualities as he paperers wealthier
     • Sattire "To think, that i should have been the proud instrument that led up to this proud reward
       • Dickens satires Pumblechook as a representative of the rising merchant class
   • Corruption of the Justice system
     • COMPEYSON LIGHTER SENTANCE THAN MAGWITCH FOR SAME CRIME
       • Juxtaposition " What a gentleman Compeyson looked" "...What a common wretch i looked
     • JAGGERS
       • Metaphor "...an exceedingly dirty and partially drunk minister of Justice '
   • Motif, appearance through clothing
   • Social inequity created by the upper class
     • Miss Havisham you must know was a spoilt child
       • Decline in morals from a young age
     • Brevity "You made your own snares i never made them
       • Despises Pip and all the values and morals he represents
     • As we got more and more into debt, breakfast became a hollower and hollower form
       • Great expectations is a cautionary novel as it shows the corruption of Pip as a result of his shift in focus from his interactions with others to himself. This confirms as Pip begins to spend money recklessly as he experiences a sense if entitlement

2. The Talented Mr Ripley - Mingella 1980's

   • Social Mobility
     • Reinventing yourself through cosmetic surgery
       • Assuming Dickie's idenity < the ring and clothing. Irony "i'm not pretending to be somebody that i'm not
       • Irony "Better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody
     • 1980's economic boom GREED DECADE
       • Hedonistic lifestyle leads to decline in morals
       • My Father Build's boats, I'd rather just sail them
   • Social inequity created by the rich and wealthy
     • Post WWII economic boom
       • Metaphor "the green leaf name opens a lot of doors
     • 1950's patriarchal society
       • hedonistic lifestyle of the rich leading to the economic boom
         • Tom reinvents himself through clothing and wealth
         • 'Can't write or spell that the privilege of a first class education'
       • Failure of American Dream, Increased wealth through immoral means
         • Similie/pathetic fallacy "It's like the sun shines on you.. and then he forgets you and its cold. And that's only the boys
       • Pip and Ripley morals decline as they desire wealth

3. PIP LEARNS FROM HIS MISTAKES < TOM DOES NOT

4. BOTH CHOOSE UNWORTHY PEOPLE TO ASPIRE TO < Dickie + Estella

5. PIP AND RIPLEY'S MORALS DECLINE AS WEALTH INCREASES

6. Juxtaposition - Pip achieves goals of higher wealth from his "common working status" - Ripley moves up when he assumes Dickies identity