PIP

ESTELLA

MAGWITCH

MISS HAVISHAM

MINOR CHARACTERS

THEME OF SOCIETY AND CLASS

"Her contempt was so strong, that it became infectious, and I caught it"
PIP CHAPTER 8

"I wished Joe had been rather more genteelly brought up, and then I should have been so too."
PIP CHAPTER 8

"I took the opportunity ... to look at my coarse hands and my common boots."
PIP CHAPTER 8

" ...deeply revolving that I was a common labouring-boy; that my hands were coarse; that my boots were thick"
" ... I was in a low-lived bad way."
PIP CHAPTER 8

"I wanted to make Joe less ignorant and common, that he might be worthier of my society and less open to Estella's reproach."
PIP CHAPTER 15

" ... far out of reach ... Do you feel that you have lost her?"
MISS HAVISHAM (about Estella) CHAPTER 15

" ... after binding her to secrecy, "I want to be a gentleman." "
PIP (to Biddy) CHAPTER 17

THEME OF DREAMS AND AMBITION

"Miss Havisham and Estella and the strange house and the strange life appeared to have something to do with everything that was picturesque"
PIP CHAPTER 15

"She reserved it for me to ... do all the shining deeds of the young Knight of romance, and marry the Princess"
PIP ( about Miss Havisham adopting Estella) CHAPTER 29

"O the sense of distance and disparity that came upon me, and the inaccessibility that came about her!"
PIP (about Estella) CHAPTER 29

"I was a blacksmith's boy but yesterday; I am—what shall I say I am—to-day?"
PIP CHAPTER 30

"I thought with absolute abhorrence of the contrast between the jail and her"
PIP (about Estella) CHAPTER 33

"...report how I go on—I and the jewels..."
ESTELLA CHAPTER 33

"...how the ship in which I had sailed was gone to pieces."
PIP CHAPTER 39

"...all a mere dream...I only suffered in Satis House as a convenience"
PIP CHAPTER 39

"went out to the memorable old house that it would have been so much the better for me never to have entered"
PIP CHAPTER 43

"I think that in the endurance of her own trial, she forgot mine, Estella."
PIP CHAPTER 44

THEME OF FRIENDSHIP

"I said to her, 'And bring the poor little child. God bless the poor little child,'"
JOE CHAPTER 7

"O dear good Joe, whom I was so ready to leave and so unthankful to...I feel the loving tremble of your hand...as if it had been the rustle of an angel's wing!"
PIP CHAPTER 18

"You may be sure, dear Joe," I went on, after we had shaken hands, "that I shall never forget you."
PIP CHAPTER 19

"As soon as I could recover myself sufficiently, I hurried out after him...but he was gone"
PIP CHAPTER 27

"others walking in the sunshine should be softened as they thought of me"
PIP CHAPTER 35

"he took both my hands and put them to his lips, while my blood ran cold within me"
PIP CHAPTER 39

"Herbert received me with open arms, and I had never felt before, so blessedly, what it is to have a friend."
PIP CHAPTER 41

"you've been more comfortable alonger me, since I was under a dark cloud, than when the sun shone. That's best of all."
MAGWITCH (to Pip) CHAPTER 56

""you and me was ever friends. And when you're well enough to go out for a ride—what larks!"
JOE CHAPTER 57

THEME OF LOVE

"her light came along the dark passage like a star."
PIP CHAPTER 8

"I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness"
PIP CHAPTER 29

"Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her."
MISS HAVISHAM CHAPTER 29

"if the often repeated word had been hate instead of love—despair—revenge—dire death—it could not have sounded from her lips more like a curse."
PIP CHAPTER 29

"You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every prospect I have ever seen ... in the light, in the darkness, in the wind, in the woods, in the sea, in the streets."
PIP CHAPTER 44 (to Estella)

THEME OF CRIMINALITY