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CP English I
Great Expectations Part 3 Study Guide
Ch. 30
Quotes:
“What I done is worked out and paid for!” ______Magwitch________________________
“Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence.” __Jaggers_________________________
1. Irony: Provis insists that Herbert take an oath on the Bible which looks as though it has been stolen from court. That he trusts the stolen book to produce honesty, and that he uses the method of oath used by the legal system that imprisoned him are ironic.
2. Jaggers pretends to believe that Magwitch is in New South Wales and that Provis is a separate person who is acting on behalf of Magwitch.
Ch. 31
“In jail and out of jail, in jail and out of jail, in jail and out of jail. There, you’ve got it. That’s my life pretty much.” __Magwitch_______________________
1. When Pip tells Herbert that he cannot accept any more money from Magwitch, Herbert is able to be more optimistic than Pip about their financial futures. Why is this?
Herbert does not know that his job at Clarikker’s house is only because of Pip’s payment to the firm. If
Pip cannot continue to pay, Herbert may lose his position. However, Herbert does not know this.
2. (pg. 784) What were the business activities that Compeyson went into with Magwitch?
Swindling, handwriting forging, stolen bank note passing.
3. Compeyson’s partner’s name was ___Arthur________________.
4. What was Compeyson’s relationship to Miss Havisham? __former fiance_____________________
What was Arthur’s relationship to Miss Havisham? ___half brother_________________________
5. In his delirious dreams just before he died, whom did Arthur see “all in white, with flowers in her hair”?____Miss Havisham__________________________
6. Foreshadowing : What is foreshadowed on pg. 785, column 1, end of Paragraph 4 into beginning of
Paragraph 5? Magwitch has a wife.
7. Magwitch explains how the court saw Compeyson as “well brought up,” and therefore gave him a lighter sentence than Magwitch.
Ch. 32
“Who am I that I should be kind?” ___Miss Havisham_______________________
”It seems that there are sentiments, fancies… which I am not able to comprehend. When you say you love me, I know what you mean, as a form of words, but nothing more. You address nothing in my breast; you touch nothing there.” ____Estella____________________
1. Who is the “young lady” whom Drummle mentions that he will join for dinner? __Estella_________

2. Themes in the novel:
Individuals are shaped by circumstances . Give 3 examples of characters for whom this is true. Be able to explain each.
Pip – shaped by sudden gain of wealth, then by loss of wealth
Magwitch – shaped by poverty and lack of parents in childhood, by kindness of Pip, and by harsh prison system
Estella – shaped by Miss Havisham’s warped ways
Miss Havisham – shaped by fiancé leaving her on wedding day
Herbert – shaped by Pip’s secret financial assistance; earlier in life shaped by kindly father and chaotic mother, but strong family structure
Individuals’ characters are composed of good and evil . Give 3 examples of characters for whom this is true. Be able to explain each.
Pip – instinctively kind to convict as a child; selfish upon meeting Estella and gaining wealth; generous to
Herbert; learns to care for Magwitch
Estella – learns to be cruel from Miss Havisham, but later shows consideration in not wanting to lead Pip on and not wanting to marry a sensitive man whom she might hurt
Magwitch – has most likely committed terrible crimes, but shows consideration and selflessness in giving money to Pip
Jaggers – seems cold and uncaring; does good for Molly; is sensible and helpful in some ways
3. Why does Estella marry Drummle?
She knows he will not really love her, and she prefers to marry someone who does not love her, since she cannot love him either. She does not want to marry a loving, sensitive man who will be hurt that she cannot love him back.
4. How is the ending of this chapter a cliffhanger?
Pip sees the note, “Don’t go home.”
Ch. 33
1. What is Herbert’s plan to keep Provis in hiding?
He keeps Provis in the upstairs room of Clara’s father’s house.
2. Foil Characters: Be able to explain how Clara is a foil character of Estella.
Clara is sweet an loving, while Estella does not know how to love.
Ch. 34
1. What is meant by, “Our friend the Spider has played his cards. He has won the pool”?
Drummle is engaged to Estella.
2. What clues first tell Pip that Molly is Estella’s mother?
Molly’s eyes, and the action of Molly’s fingers, which looks like the knitting that Estella was doing last time Pip saw her.
Ch. 35
“If you can ever write under my name, ‘I forgive her,’ though ever so long after my broken heart is dust— pray do it!” __Miss Havisham________________________
1. Setting detail: The sad cathedral chimes seem to call to Pip that Satis House is changed, since Estella is gone.

2. Epiphany : Miss Havisham realizes she gave Pip the same sadness she herself experienced when her groom left her. “Until you spoke to her the other day… I did not know what I had done.”
3. Metaphor: “I saw in you a looking glass that showed me what I once felt myself.”
4. Irony: Where is Miss Havisham put while the surgeon took care of her burns?
On the dining room table
Ch. 36
1. Why does Pip want his hands to heal quickly?
So he can row Magwitch out of the country
2. Why did Magwitch not learn that his child was indeed alive?
He went into hiding so that no one would question him about his lost child.
3. Why was Pip special to Magwitch?
He reminded Magwitch of the child whom he had lost.
Ch. 37
“If you are not afraid to come to the old marshes tonight or tomorrow night at nine, and t o come to the little sluice house by the limekiln, you had better come.” ____Orlick____________________
“I had never been struck at so keenly for my thanklessness to Joe, as through the brazen imposter
Pumblechook.” ___Pip_________________________
What does the speaker mean by the second quote above?
He realized that Joe has been his best friend during his childhood, although Pumblechook claims to have been so.
Ch. 38
1. Setting detail: What details set the stage for the bad things that happen to Pip later in the chapter? dark night, melancholy wind, marshes being dismal
2. What insulting name for Pip does Orlick use? __wolf__________ This name implies a predator.
3. Recall the story which Orlick once told Pip about the devil who lived in the forge fire and ate boys.
His character has not changed. What does he say he will do with Pip’s body (pg. 806)?
Orlick says he will burn Pip’s body in the forge kiln.
4. Orlick is revealing that there is a conspiracy to capture Provis, involving not only low characters like
Orlick, but also intelligent men of whom Orlick says, “them that writes fifty hands.”
5. Who has led Herbert & Startop to save Pip from Orlick? ____Trabb’s boy___________________
6. To what crime does Orlick confess?
Attacking Mrs. Joe. He left her, thinking she was dead.
Ch. 39
“Dear boy, I’m quite content to take my chance. I’ve seen my boy, and he can be a gentleman without me.” ____Magwitch_________________________
“Please God, I will be as true to you as you have been to me!” ____Pip_______________________

1. Pg. 811 – Who are the “all four together” (column 2, Paragraph 2) that Pip mentions walking?
Herbert, Pip, Startop, and Magwitch
Who is the least anxious of them?
Magwitch
2. What is Compeyson trying to do when he dies? Turn Magwitch in.
How does he die? Goes underwater with Magwitch and never comes back up.
3. Pg. 815 – About whom does Pip say, “I saw in him a better man than I had been to Joe”?
Magwitch
4. What evidence do we see in this chapter that Pip is a dynamic character ?
Pip feels kindly toward Magwitch, whom he had despised before. He also realizes he has been unkind to
Joe.
Ch.40
“Halloa! Here’s Miss Skiffins! Let’s have a wedding.” ____Wemmick__________________________
1. What job does Herbert offer Pip?
A clerk in his company
2. Theme : Friendship in this novel is more redeeming than idealized, illusionary, romantic love.
Give 2 examples of Pip’s good friends.
Wemmick, Herbert, Joe
3. To where does Wemmick take a walk?
Church, to marry Miss Skiffins.
Ch. 41
1. Irony: The court officers seat Magwitch to allow him to breathe enough to “keep life in him” while, ironically, they are condemning him to die.
2. How many people were condemned to death along with Magwitch?
32 (page 818)
3. What does Pip reveal to Magwitch moments before Magwitch dies?
That Estella is alive, that she has found rich and powerful friends, and that Pip loves her.
4. Allusion : What Biblical allusion is at the end of the chapter?
Two men who went up into the Temple to pray
Ch. 42
1. Why was Pip nearly arrested?
Debt
2. What has Joe learned to do?
Read and write
3. What news of Miss Havisham does Joe bring to Pip?
She has died.

4. What literary device is used in the passage: “But whether Joe knew how poor I was, and how my great expectations had all dissolved like our own marsh mists before the sun, I could not understand”?
___simile____________________
5. Who has paid Pip’s debts?
Joe
6. What is Pip’s intent regarding Biddy?
To propose marriage to her
Ch. 43
1. What news do Biddy & Joe have for Pip?
They have just married. “It’s my wedding day, and I am married to Joe!”
2. What secret is revealed to Herbert?
Herbert learns that Pip helped him to be hired at Clarriker’s house.
3. What is meant by the last sentence of the chapter?
Pip realizes how much he has changed, and that his original thought that Herbert would never become great was more a matter of Pip not being able to see Herbert’s greatness.
Ch. 44
1. Where is Pip living now?
With Herbert and Clara
2. Is Estella a static or dynamic character?
Dynamic in the last chapter. Her marriage has changed her.