Monday, January 26, 2015

Great Expectations Notes

- Novel of maturity
- Coming from childhood to adulthood
- Pip has these imagining about what his life can be like
- What he is going to do to manifest those
- Pip believes that his aspirations are just going to happen
- Idealism is from a child
- Appropriate fantasy fro pip
- He thinks he is unwanted 
- Doesn't have a solid family background 
- He doesn't have a normal 
- He has grand expectations and then had these fears
- Adopts adult males as role models
- Magwhich threat of the outside adult world that all parents protect their children from 
- He has a capacity for wickedness
- Animal mentality of a need to survive scarfs down food
- Selfishness abandonment brutality 
- Magwhich presents the possibility of what pip might become
- Play on words
- Havasham she symbolizes horrible decay on one hand and shining promise on the other like a fairy grandmother
- She left everything untouched since she was left at the alter
- Her preservation of these items signifies her loss
- Astella adopted daughter of havasham
Pip?
- We are conditioned to the things wanted 
- Joe Gargerry and Jagger's j is interchangeable with I
- Pip is identifying with each one
- Joe is the blacksmith trying power
- Joe lives by feeling goes with his heart doesn't judge people by appearances 
- Romantic
- Not a wealthy man
- Rich emotional life
- Jaggers know things about people and uses that over people to control them 
- Lives by the law
- Breaks everything down by evidence and logic
- Makes it hard on people
- Has a lot of money
- Astella Molly Havasham are like Jaggers
- J and j both come across a mother and a baby that needs help joe adopts them
- Jaggers puts the baby in a adoption and blackmails the mother into working for him
- J and J are foils
- Jaggers a pecimist only a business deal when pip is trying to form an emotional connection 
- Wemick at work is foil at Wemick at home
Joe at home Jaggers at work
- Connections to other people is more important than money 
1. Havasham not a fairy godmother
2. Astella part of pips training process
3. Magwhich setting out pips life
- Joe is not an intellectual
- Pip responds differently as the book goes on from Joe and Jaggers 
- Pip still lives in his fantasy 
- Fantasist vs realist
- Pip wants to dance but doesn't want to pay the band
-Devotes himself to the women who doesn't want him 
- Pip becomes selfish and unwilling to engage
- He's not living in the fantasyland he wants to live in 
- Pip doesn't get it yet and is still in need of education 
- Coming to terms with that story by writing an autobiography 
- He writes it so he won't repeat it
- Pip is disillusioned that he doesn't want to have fantasies 
- Child pip
-Reflection towards  the book

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