- 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
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