‘‘Hold your noise’’ I think this also shows how Magwitch is giving him orders and demands respect. I also think that Magwitch has the power in the relationship
‘‘Give it mouth’
‘Pip. Pip, sir.’’ Pip saying his name twice is showing how Magwitch is forceful and is the control.
Charles dickens describes the place in which miss Havisham is living as ‘‘Satis house’’ (Enough House) I think this could mean that whosoever built it thought it they had done enough. I think also Miss Havisham has had enough of the house. Miss Havisham demands for things
‘‘I sometimes have sick fancies… I want to see some play… play, Play, Play!’’ this shows how miss Havisham is demanding also she is controlling Pip. Miss Havisham makes Pip say something he doesn’t want to.
‘‘What do you think of her?’
‘I don’t like to say’ I stammered
‘tell me in my ear’ said miss Havisham bending down
‘I think she is very proud’’ I think miss Havisham uses her status to squeeze that out of Pip also I think this shows miss Havisham has all the power in the relationship.
Miss Havisham was rich and Pip was not, in the nineteenth century life for the poor was hard, if you was rich u was as higher class. So Pip thought as Estella and Miss Havisham as superior.
Pip meets Magwitch in a churchyard on the marshes, a dark and ominous place, ‘‘this bleak overgrown with nettles’’ I think this shows how dark and dangerous the marshes is and also how it has been left to over grow no one has tried to maintain the marshes. The atmosphere became tense ‘‘the distant savage lair from which the wind was rushing’’ I think this indicated something would happen.
Pip meets Miss Havisham in a grand house with similar properties to the marshes ‘‘passages were all dark’’ just like the marshes it was dark but on the other hand Pip meets Magwitch on the marshes and meets miss Havisham in a grand house they are the total opposites.
Magwitch is thankful to pip ‘‘thankee my boy, thank’ee. God bless you! You’ve never deserted me. Magwitch doesn’t know that pip had once meant to deserted him this is when Charles dickens uses irony well.
When Magwitch came to tell Pip that he was his benefactor pip was unhappy ‘‘will you drink before you go’’ I think this shows how disgusted and ashamed Pip was of Magwitch and he didn’t want to be around him. Than Pip attitude changes and he cant wait to see Magwitch ‘‘you always wait at the gate, don’t you, dear boy?’’
‘‘Yes. Not to lose a moment of time’’ I think Pip’s attitude because he is grateful for all the money that Magwitch gave him.
Pip wants Magwitch’s mind to be at rest ‘‘you had a child once, whom you loved and lost’’… ‘‘She lived and found powerful friends. She is living now’’. I think pip wants to know that his only child alive and that he know her.
Pip feels that miss Havisham has been thinking about her own pain without realising how she has made pip feels. ‘‘I think hating the endurance of her own trial, she forgot mine’’ I think this shows miss Havisham was too caught up in her own sorrow trying to get rid of her pain by inflicting pain to a male (pip) through Estella.
Miss Havisham doesn’t think she needs to be kind. ‘‘Who am I, for God’s sake that I should be kind’’ think Charles Dickens uses miss Havisham to symbolise the arrogant rich that thinks they are better than everyone else below them.
Miss Havisham felt bad for what she had done to Pip ‘‘Miss Havisham put her hand on her heart’’ her hardened her has now turned soft as she notices how much she is hurting Pip.
I think a moral purpose of this novel is to show money can change people in ways you could ever imagine. Also I think dickens also wants us to know that money can come from the most unexpected places. If you’re kind, loyal and giving, it will come back to you. The final purpose is that we should not concentrate on the richest wallet but the kindest heart.
Charles dickens used social attitude to create a twist in this novel. At the time of the novel people who understand writing (mostly higher class people, poor people couldn’t go to school due to having no money) looked down on convicted criminals because they was portrayed as malicious, cruel, heartless and vindictive people. Charles dickens knows this and uses this to create a surprise in this novel. He uses this with miss Havisham also because when pip gets the money some people would have thought that miss Havisham is the benefactor.
After analysing the first meeting and the last meeting Pip had with Magwitch I have become aware of how their relationship has changed for the better. From the time when Magwitch stayed at Pip home in London their relationship grew stronger and stronger until Magwitch died.
I also examined the first meeting and the last meetings Pip had with Miss Havisham. I think since Pip first met miss Havisham to the last I think pip lost respect for her. I think he lost respect first when he realised that miss Havisham wasn’t the benefactor because she was acting as if she was. I think he also lost respect for her because he was also rich miss Havisham wasn’t that woman he looked up to when he was a child. I think their relationship grew strong until he was told whom the real benefactor was than their relationship become insubstantial.
