Great Expectations - created from Mind Map

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Key themes

Structure

Narrative voice

Key Symbols

Quotes

Social Class/Hierarchy

Ambition/Hopes

Wealth

Conflict

Innocence/Corruption

Estella makes Pip aware of his working class background - this starts the changes in Pip

Pip hopes to make the transition from working class to upper class

Pip has a desire for wealth - results in him getting Herbert into debt

Pip does not care - selfish

Inner turmoil

The difference between doing what he wants and what is right

Steals from his sister to help the convict

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

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

Retrospective first person narrative - Pip

At the beginning he is a child - may have over exaggerated what he say

He is fairly honest - acknowledges his faults

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

His vivid description of the convict

Pathetic fallacy

Satis House

Setting

Estella

Joe Gargery

Dickens uses a lot of pathetic fallacy to foreshadow bad things to come

Foggy mist - symbolises Pip losing his former innocent self

Chapter 39 - stormy night - return of the convict

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

Marshes - forshadows Pip's corrupted self

London

Barnard's Inn

Satis House

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'this bleak place overgrown with nettles'

'dark flat wilderness beyond the churchyard'

'distant savage lair'

Negative description

Foreshadowing Pip's corrupted self

Is symbolic of the bourgeoisie

Is the ultimate symbol

"I had heard of Miss Havisham up town—everybody for miles round, had heard of Miss Havisham up town—as an immensely rich and grim lady who lived in a large and dismal house barricaded against robbers, and who led a life of seclusion. (7.80)"