Day: 20 June 2016

Great expectation quotes arbaz

June 20, 2016 / / 0 Comments

Quote 1

I had heard of Miss Havisham up town—everybody for miles round, had heard of Miss Havisham up town—as an immensely rich and grim lady who lived in a large and dismal house barricaded against robbers, and who led a life of seclusion. (7.80)

Pip’s hometown is socially stratified. He lives in the “village,” and Miss Havisham lives “up town.” Apart from reminding us of a certain Billy Joel song, this delineation between the wealthy and working class in Kent is palpable and is reinforced by the gate that guards Miss Havisham’s decaying riches. Also, notice that great privilege is closely linked to loneliness?

Quote 2

“I wished Joe had been rather more genteelly brought up, and then I should have been so too. Chapter 8”

Pip is saying that Joe  should have been brought up with manners and that why he was brought up in a rough way and due to this pip has had a hard up bringing and does not  understand the finer things in life

 

Quote 3

“I had heard of Miss Havisham up town—everybody for miles round, had heard of Miss Havisham up town—as an immensely rich and grim lady who lived in a large and dismal house barricaded against robbers, and who led a life of seclusion.”  Chapter 7 ”

means that pip lives in the villiage and miss havisham lives up town which means that she lives in the posh part .dickens describes her house as very large and is set up to protect her from any robbers

Quote from Great Expectations for revision

June 20, 2016 / / 0 Comments

“I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the arguments of my best friends.” Chapter 4

This shows that Pip has a sense of guilt on having been born. As if his presence is an affront to nature itself. An interesting way also for saying that the world despises his very existence….

“There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose as in most lives) when I have felt for a time as if a thick curtain had fallen on all its interest and romance, to shut me out from anything save dull endurance any more. Never has that curtain dropped so heavy and blank, as when my way in life lay stretched out straight before me through the newly-entered road of apprenticeship to Joe.” Chapter 14