GREAT EXPECTATIONS
Chapters 24-31
Chapter 24
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What instruction has Mr. Jaggers’ received about
Pip’s career?
4x5
 Jaggers
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was testing Pip
Tour of Jaggers’ office
 “two
odious casts”
 2 famous criminals
1
male, 1 female
 Casts
made right after they died
Chapter 25, Wemmick’s Home
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Aged Parent
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Deaf and funny
Jaggers has never seen
Wemmick’s home
Wemmick keeps his home
life separate from the
office
Asks Pip to keep it a secret,
as well
Change in Wemmicks’
disposition as he neared
the office
Chapter 26
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Enables us to get a better
perception of Jaggers
Jaggers takes a liking to
Drummle (“the spider”)
Housekeeper, Molly
 Page 213
 Very nervous around
Jaggers
Wrists
Scars seem to be part of a
secret that Jaggers and Molly
Share
Chapter 26
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Pip lives extravagantly
Boasts of his great
prospects
Discussion about
loaning money
 Angers Drummle
 Does Drummle
remind you of
another character?
Chapter 27
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Letter from Biddy
Describe how Pip felt when he learned of Joe’s
upcoming visit to London
What does this show you about Pip’s character? Is
he changing? Is he the same?
Who is “the Avenger?”
Chapter 27
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Who travels with Joe to London?
 How
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has this character “had a drop?”
Joe brings a message from Ms. Havisham
Chapter 27
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Joe refers to Pip as “Sir” throughout his visit and
seems noticeably nervous and uncomfortable.
 WHY??
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“Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many
partings welded together, as I may say, and one
man’s a blacksmith, and one’s a goldsmith…You and
me is not two figures to be together in
London…God bless you, dear old Pip, old chap,
God bless you!”
Chapter 28
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Pip feels badly about how Joe left London the
previous day…BUT…
2 Convicts would be traveling to the dockyards in
the same stage-coach Pip was taking to the
marshes.
A
familiar face
 The man does NOT recognize Pip
 However, we now know who was responsible for the two
one-pound notes.
Chapter 29
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Pip’s return to Satis House
Pip believes Ms. Havisham intended him and Estella
to be together
Pip says this about Estella,
 “I
loved her simply because I found her irresistible…I
loved her against reason, against promise, against
peace, against hope, against happiness…”
 Thoughts?
Chapter 29 Changes at Satis
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Of course Ms. H. remains the same
Pip anxiously awaits for Estella at the gate, when
SURPRISE!!
 It’s
‘ole Orlick!
 He’s able to intimidate others and it’s easier than being
a blacksmith
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“an elegant lady whom I had never seen.”
Estella Returns
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Estella’s eyes
She was even more
beautiful
Under Estella’s gaze,
Pip “slipped
hopelessly back into
the coarse and
common boy again.”
Confessions
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“You must know that I have no heart…
I am serious; if we are going to be thrown much
together, you had better believe it at once.”
 What
can we learn about Estella from this statement?
Look beyond the text.
 Maybe
she’s not at heartless as we all thought.
What is Love?
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According to Ms. Havisham:
 Blind
devotion
 Unquestioning self-humiliation
 Utter submission
 Trust and belief against yourself and against the whole
world
 Giving up your heart and soul.
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Do you agree?
Regrets
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“I never thought there was anything low and small
about me keeping away from Joe, because I knew
she would be contemptuous of him. It was but a
day gone, and Joe had brought tears into my eyes;
they had soon dried—God forgive me!—soon
dried.
 Estella
was the reason behind Pip’s bad decision.
 What does this line reveal about Pip as an adult?
Chapter 30
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Pip voiced his concerns to Jaggers about Orlick
working at Ms. Havisham’s
Pip confesses to Herbert that he loves Estella
 Herbert’s
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Pip yearns to know just what his “expectations” are
and if Estella really is one of them
 Does
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reaction
Herbert believe Pip was “designed” for Estella?
Herbert’s secret
Chapter 31
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“On our arrival in Denmark”
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really; Hamlet is set in Denmark
The play is awful
 The
ghost of Hamlet’s father coughs constantly
 He carried his lines around with him
 One boy changed roles throughout the play
 Coffin was “an empty black box with the lid tumbling
open”
 When the prince asked questions, the audience
answered
Chapter 31
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Pip and Herbert leave immediately after the play,
hoping to avoid Wopsle
Feeling sorry for him, Pip invites Wopsle to supper
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Pip goes to bed miserable
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