Reflection:
I think the lecture yesterday gave way for the entire book. The lecture gave insight into what I can look for in the rest of the novel and showed points I could find. However the lecture told me what the author meant and what happened in the novel before I could finish the book and interpret the authors intent on my own. I only read the first 60 pages the weekend prior to the lecture, so finding out the end of the book was a bit of a spoiler. During my conversation today I went into detail with some of my fellow students about the parts we had read so far and I feel it helped my understanding.
-pip has imaginings of his life, desires of life, child idealist,
- feels different, am I a good person,
- what is normal?
- has fears, fatherless; adopts men as father figures
magwhich- represents boogy man, convict, in the church graveyard, tells him to steal, not a moral character, brutality. Threat of abandonment if he doesn't do what he says, what pip might become
Haveasham - witch like figure, represents decay, and shining promise, what could be a fairy godmother, sacrificed, her house is very still nothing has moved since she was left at the altar, trained to be a heart breaker Estella, she is rich and adopted an orphan (positive pip takes).
Pip doesn't talk truthfully about either character
-pip male desire to rule the world, wanting to be something more
- pip it's not just about disire, these people disappear.
- meets joe gragary, jaggars j in Greek alphabet means I, he is identifying with both. Joe can beat someone but doesn't use it,goes with his heart, a romanic, poetic view if people/world, not a wealthy man, is content
- biddy, whemic,
jaggars knows the shameful secrets and can use them over people to keep honest, he is cold, doesn't use emotion, knows about people can hurt them, not successful emotionally but has a lot of money
- Estella, Molly, havasham, magwhich
- both come across a mother and child joe accepts, jaggar puts kid in adoption and has mother work as a slave,
-they are foils to each other not a pure example
- jaggar is acting as a business man, sometimes he finds a jewel.
- whemic- is a clerk is two different people business at work home loving
- magwhich- evil life of childhood,
- pip has an influence, following a life,
- multiple conflicts, less action more progression,
His relevation
1. pip isn't son of dynasty leader
2. Estella isn't for him, not a pure spirit, origins worse than her
3. magwhich- his own thoughts were not his own
4. He has to seek out what he wants, not an intellectual, they aren't worth one thing one day, they can change
5.
- joe and jaggar ready to accept consequences of life, pip wants the benefits but doesn't want to pay the price
- becomes a snob because he wants to stay aloof, pip writing biography is him coming together and a cautionary tale or what he is,
-novel ends, doesn't want Estella anymore
- forge for black smith,
- child named pip born from biddile
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