https://padlet.com/156284249/Bookmarks Ch. 1 - 15 Character/motif Analysis en-us 2022-04-15 03:42:31 UTC 2022-05-05 02:16:52 UTC hello@padlet.com 156284249 https://padlet.com/156284249/Bookmarks/wish/2154149949 PIP:
"Pitying his desolation, and watching him as he gradually settled down upon the pie, I made bold to say, "I am glad you enjoy it" (Dickens 674)

Pip is a very kind and sympathetic kid. Usually, kids, when seeing a convict or someone who looks like Pip's convict would run away, scream, and tell their parents. But Pip stayed true to his promise, despite being horrified and terrified, he treats the convict with compassion. He even tells the convict that he's glad he enjoys the food he brought him. If I was in his shoe, I wouldn't even have the courage to talk, to say the least.


JOE:
"He was a mild, good-natured, sweet-tempered, easygoing, foolish, dear fellow __ a sort of Hercules in strength, and also in weakness" (Dickens 671)

Joe is compared to Hercules; a Greek mythological demi-god who is famous and known for his strength. Joe, being a blacksmith, is strong and hard-working. Pip also describes Joe as Hercules in weakness. Hercules' weakness was that he lacked intelligence. He was not smart. It was said that he once threatened to shoot the sun with an arrow because it was too hot. In chapter 6 we learn that Joe didn't go to school and that when Pip tried to teach him what he learned, he would simply forget it the next Sunday.


CONVICT:
"Now, I ain't alone, as you may think I am. There's a young man hid with me. That young man hears the words I speak. That young man has a secret way of getting at a body, and at his heart, and at his liver. It is in wain for a boy to attempt to hide himself from that young man" (Dickens 670)

The convict is being dramatic and intimidating Pip into getting him what he wants. When he found out that pip is related to a blacksmith, he immediately uses that opportunity to break his leg iron. Obviously, Pip could've refused, but he had no choice when the convict clearly told him that he has a friend who eats the livers and hearts of little boys like him. We as the readers clearly know the "young man" doesn't exist, but Pip has no clue.

]]> 2022-04-22 21:30:37 UTC https://padlet.com/156284249/Bookmarks/wish/2154149949 156284249 https://padlet.com/156284249/Bookmarks/wish/2154150175 CONVICT:
"I know, but this is another matter. A man can't starve; at least I can't. I took some wittles, up at the village over yonder. You mean stole, said the sergeant. And I'll tell you where from. From the blacksmith's" (Dickens 682).

In this part of the convict's life, we see that he's not who we expect him to be. Instead of ratting out Pip and blaming him for stealing food, he takes the blame upon himself and says he did it. The convict is a criminal with dignity. The convict probably did this to repay Pip for his kindness and for helping him. Not many criminals like him would do what the convict just did.]]> 2022-04-22 21:31:02 UTC https://padlet.com/156284249/Bookmarks/wish/2154150175 156284249 https://padlet.com/156284249/Bookmarks/wish/2154150250 MISS HAVISHAM:
"I thought I overheard Miss Havisham answer - only it seemed so unlikely  - "well? You can break his heart" (Dickens 690).

Miss Havisham is such a cruel and deceptive woman. She tells Pip to have affection for Estella one minute ago and then tells Estella to break Pip's heart. Miss Havisham is using Estella as her vessel to get her revenge on men. And she's letting Estella practice on poor Pip first. Miss Havisham doesn't know that she is causing Pip pain intentionally, but she obviously doesn't care.


ESTELLA:
"He calls the knaves jacks, this boy! said Estella with disdain, before our first game was out. And what coarse hands he has! And what thick boots...she denounced me for a stupid, clumsy, laboring boy" (Dickens 690, 691).

Estella is constantly mean to Pip. She's proud and constantly calls Pip a common laboring boy. Pip claims that although Estella is pretty, she is proud and insulting. I don't know why Pip still likes her. He's blinded by love. Estella is the way she is probably because Miss Havisham taught her to be like that. It's like Estella is the mini figure of Miss Havisham.


PIP:
"I took the opportunity of being alone to look at my coarse hands and my common boots. They had never troubled me before, but they troubled me now...that I was a common laboring boy...and generally that I was in a low-lived, bad way" (Dickens 692, 693).

Pip feels ashamed and inferior for being common. He says that this is the first time he felt that way. Not only is he embarrassed of himself, but Joe, his family, and his house. Pip feels embarrassed for being brought up in a poor social class. Pip values Estella's opinion about him more than the values Joe has taught him. He doesn't want Estella's derision.]]> 2022-04-22 21:31:09 UTC https://padlet.com/156284249/Bookmarks/wish/2154150250 156284249 https://padlet.com/156284249/Bookmarks/wish/2154150331 MISS HAVISHAM:
"I don't suffer it to be spoken of. I don't suffer those who were here just now, or anyone, to speak of it. They come here on the day, but they dare not refer to it" (Dickens 701).

Miss Havisham, at some point is kind of smart. She knows that her relatives don't really care for her, seeing that she's getting old. All they care about is being included in her will, since she is filthy rich. In other words, they are after her money not her.]]> 2022-04-22 21:31:20 UTC https://padlet.com/156284249/Bookmarks/wish/2154150331 156284249 https://padlet.com/156284249/Bookmarks/wish/2154150402 JOE:
"I could barely have imagined dear old Joe looking so unlike himself or so like some extraordinary bird, standing, as he did, speechless, with his tuft of feathers ruffled, and his mouth open as if he wanted a worm" (Dickens 706). 

Pip sees that Joe is quite uncomfortable at Miss Havisham's.
Joe knows he doesn't fit in, seeing how he's stiff and doesn't know how to answer when asked. And because of this, Pip is embarrassed and mortified by Joe's awkwardness and uneducated speech. He criticizes Joe for not knowing. Joe must've felt sad, and despondent at the fact that he's different from everyone else no matter how hard he tries.]]> 2022-04-22 21:31:28 UTC https://padlet.com/156284249/Bookmarks/wish/2154150402 156284249 https://padlet.com/156284249/Bookmarks/wish/2154150464 BIDDY:
"Biddy became part of our establishment. Biddy came to us with a small speckled box containing the whole of her worldly effects and became a blessing to the household" (Dickens 714).

Biddy is indeed a blessing to the Gargerys. Ever since Mrs. Joe was attacked, she couldn't really do anything. So, Biddy is taking Mrs. Joe's place as the head of the household. She's nursing Mrs. Joe to health, taking care of the house, and comforting Joe. ]]> 2022-04-22 21:31:34 UTC https://padlet.com/156284249/Bookmarks/wish/2154150464 156284249 https://padlet.com/156284249/Bookmarks/wish/2154150508 MR. JAGGERS:
"Mr. Jaggers had looked on at this, as one who recognized in Joe the village idiot, and in me his keeper...Well, Mr. Pip, I think the sooner you leave here, the better" (Dickens 720).

Mr. Jaggers is an intimidating, hard-headed person who bullies and looks down on the people that are lower than him. Although Joe keeps refusing his request, Mr. Jaggers keeps on demanding him. Joe becomes ferocious. He insults Joe twice in this sentence. Calling him a village idiot and telling Pip it would be better the sooner they leave. ]]> 2022-04-22 21:31:38 UTC https://padlet.com/156284249/Bookmarks/wish/2154150508 156284249 https://padlet.com/156284249/Bookmarks/wish/2154379804 LOVE:
"But afterward, at quiet times when I sat looking at Joe and thinking about him, I had a new sensation of feeling conscious that I was looking up to Joe in my heart" (Dickens 686).

Earlier in the chapter, we see that Joe tells Pip that he was the reason Mrs. Joe took him in to live with them. Pip ends up crying and hugging Joe. The love Joe and Pip share is admirable. Pip, that night and on had a new admiration towards Joe. He's beginning to think that he'll start looking up to Joe probably because he's the only one who actually cares, adores, and protects him.]]> 2022-04-23 05:16:07 UTC https://padlet.com/156284249/Bookmarks/wish/2154379804 156284249 https://padlet.com/156284249/Bookmarks/wish/2154379935 THE PAST:
"He did this so that nobody but I saw the file; and when he had done it, he wiped the file and put it in a breast pocket. I knew it to be Joe's file, and I knew that he knew my convict, the moment I saw the instrument" (Dickens 697).

When the strange man stirred his drink with a file, Pip instantly knew that was the file he had stole from the forge and had given to the convict. The strange man's action takes Pip back to the guilt he experienced in the beginning when he helped the convict. He was haunted by the file and couldn't sleep for days due to some weird dreams.]]> 2022-04-23 05:16:35 UTC https://padlet.com/156284249/Bookmarks/wish/2154379935 156284249 https://padlet.com/156284249/Bookmarks/wish/2154380033 LOVE:
"She manifested the greatest anxiety to be on good terms with him, was evidently much pleased by his being at length produced, and motioned that she would have him given something to drink" (Dickens 714).

Mrs. Joe, ever since she was attacked, she wasn't the same anymore. Her behavior has changed drastically. Pip claims that he was disappointed by the different result his sister proposed towards Orlick. I chose this as an example of the motif love, because Mrs. Joe although she was attacked by possibly Orlick, she still treats him kindly and becomes on good terms with him. Weird huh.]]> 2022-04-23 05:16:50 UTC https://padlet.com/156284249/Bookmarks/wish/2154380033 156284249 https://padlet.com/156284249/Bookmarks/wish/2154380467 DREAMS/GOALS:
"He, be immediately removed from his present sphere of life and from this place and brought up as a gentleman - in a word, as a young fellow of great expectations" (Dickens 719).

Pip's dream of becoming a gentleman is finally coming true for him. A guy named Mr. Jagger suddenly comes unannounced and tells Pip that someone expects him to be a gentleman and will provide him with whatever he needs to meet that expectation. This obviously makes Pip happy seeing how he couldn't bring himself to say a word.]]> 2022-04-23 05:18:25 UTC https://padlet.com/156284249/Bookmarks/wish/2154380467