Masterpiece in Progress

I've gained some new ideas recently about how to further my progress on my masterpiece. My masterpiece is about music and I wanted to maybe start writing songs and making music with my guitar. A few days ago Joey brought a great idea to me. He said that his masterpiece had to do with going on hikes and making videos about them and posting them to YouTube or other social media. With that being known, he then asked if I wanted to be the music in the background of his videos because YouTube often blocks any copyrighted songs from being used in videos. I quickly thought that it was an awesome idea and a great way to get some of my music heard so I am really looking forward to working on this more with him. I think this will turn out awesome.

Great Expectations Notes

Great Expectations--Dickens

- Bildungsroman is a novel of education. It gives us a lot about the culture in which it was produced. Relies heavily on psychology. Great expectations built around a fantasy 

-embodies a typical childhood fantasy

-fantasy are not necessarily a bad thing

-Pip has been orphaned

-very strong sense of being unwanted 

-he reacts more strongly than other kids might

-he feels apart from the world

-he thinks that he is meant to do greater things

-Pip wonders if he is wicked and is in someway not good enough for his parents

-he is vulnerable with older males because he has no father figure

-he wants to identify with them 

-magwitch=boogie man 

-magwitch is the stranger

-he eats like an animal

-implies selfishness and capacity to self indulge

-he is the threat of abandonment for pip

-pip looks at magwitch as tho he might one day be like him

-ms. Havacham is the witch

-her house is gloomy cuz she left her house the same after she was left at the alter

-her preservation of things represents her loss

-pip plays begged ur neighbor with Estella 

-Estella has been trained to kill men 

-pip ignores it because he is in love with Estella 

-ms. H represents adulthood for pip

-pip has no family but Estella does

-Estella sounds like star in Spanish

-these two characters remind him of his insecurities

-this fantasy world gets interupted when they go to London 

-when pip sees joes and Jagars he wonders if he should adopt their attitudes

-Jagars no secrets

-joes is strong

-joe lives by feeling, doesn't judge people, poetic view of the world

-Jagars lives by the letter of the law, does not trust people but does trust the facts which is often money

-Jagars uses people for personal gain

-Jagars continually says that he is involved with pip for business

-wemick is like joe at home and Jagars at work

-represents the cost and advantages of being two different people

-magwitch is different overtime

-first he is like pip and then he became evil and then good

-pip actually influences magwitch instead of vice versa 

-pip confronts the bad and the good

-pip realizes his fantasy was not true

-he realizes that he was just meat for Estella and pups great expectations were not his own creation

-pip comes to realize that ideas are always being recycled 

-how open r we to accept that these recycled ideas are actually there

-orlik attacks mrs.joe and pip actually enjoys it

-he realizes that life happens to everybody

-without suffering the good stuff wouldn't be so good

-pip wants the good stuff but doesn't want to have to go through the bad stuff

-this story is a reckoning at middle age

-he is reflecting back on his past so that he may not repeat it in the future

-the forge is the central moral reference

-pip is a seed

-it is an unrealized potential