Lauren, Josh, Hye Lynn, Julia, Jenn
Lauren:
Doubling
Great Expectations: Both of the women figures in his life become invalids.
Ex) Chapter 15 page 95
Mrs. Joe - “her hearing was greatly impaired; her memory also; snd her speech
was unintelligible… she came around so far to be helped down-stairs, it was still
necessary to keep my slate always by her”
Ex) Chapter 49 page 315
Miss Havisham – “the danger lay in the nervous shock. By surgeon’s directions,
her bed was carried into that room and laid upon the great table: which happened to be
well suited to the dressing of her injuries. When I saw her again, an hour afterwards, she
lay indeed where I had seen her strike her stick, and had heard her say she would lie one
day”
Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. Dover Thrift Editions ed. N.p.: Dover
Publications, 2001. Print.
Wuthering Heights: Both Hareton and Heathcliff are treated inferiorly and are deprived
from basic rights from their masters.
Ex) Chapter 6 page 32
Heathcliff- “He drove him from their company to the servants, deprived him of
the instructions of the curate, and insisted that he should labour out of doors instead”
Ex) Chapter 18 page 139
Hareton- “In that manner, Hareton, who should now be the first gentleman in the
neighborhood, was reduced to a state of complete dependence on his father’s inveterate
enemy; and lives in his own house as a servant deprived of the advantage of wages, and
quite unable to right himself, because of his friendlessness, and his ignorance that he has
been wronged”.
Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights. Dover Thrift Editions ed. N.p.: Dover Publications,
1996. Print.
Josh:
Estella is the most direct double to Pip in so many ways. Although they appear to be from
very different social classes at the beginning of Great Expectations, Estella is revealed to
be Magwitch's daughter, just as Pip is essentially his (unwillingly and unknowingly)
adopted son. Estella is also adopted by a wealthy person whom she ultimately rejects
(Miss Havisham), and chases money and high society through marriage, while Pip does
so through Magwitch's patronage.
1. My sister, Mrs. Joe Gargery, was more than twenty years older than i, and had
established a great reputation with herself and the neighbours because she had
brought me up "by hand."
2. O, look at her, look at her!" cried Miss Havisham, bitterly; "Look at her, so hard
and thankless, on the hearth where she was reared! Where I took her into this
wretched breast when it was first bleeding from its stabs, and where I have
lavished years of tenderness upon her!"
...
"Mother by adoption," retorted Estella, never departing from the easy grace of her
attitude, never raising her voice as the other did, never yielding either to anger or
tenderness, "Mother by adoption, I have said that I owe everything to you. All I possess is
freely yours. All that you have given me, is at your command to have again. Beyond that,
I have nothing. And if you ask me to give you what you never gave me, my gratitude and
duty cannot do impossibilities."Both Pip and Estella are patronized by their guardians as
Mrs. Joe would accuse Pip of being ungrateful and Miss Havisham does the same to
Estella. Also, both Pip and Estella don't consider them motherly figures.
Hye Lynn:
 Catherine and Heathcliff: They are two halves of the same person.
“He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the
same.” (Chapter 9)
And “My great thought in living is [Heathcliff]. He’s always, always in my mind […] as
my own being. […] Nelly, I am Heathcliff!" (Chapter 9)
 Edgar Linton and Linton Heathcliff: Bronte makes this pair very obvious by saying that
Edgar and Linton look extremely alike. They have analogous marriages; Edgar marries
Catherine Earnshaw, and Linton marries her daughter, young Catherine. Also, Heathcliff
treats them both very cruelly, but neither of them does anything to retaliate.
Julia Hageman:
1. Pip and Miss Havisham are parallels because they face rejection.
 Chapter 22 Page 183
“`It's not that,' said he [Herbert], `but she charged him, in the presence of her intended
husband, with being disappointed in the hope of fawning upon her for his own
advancement, and, if he were to go to her now, it would look true -- even to him -- and
even to her. To return to the man and make an end of him. The marriage day was fixed,
the wedding dresses were bought, the wedding tour was planned out, the wedding guests
were invited. The day came, but not the bridegroom. He wrote her a letter -- '” (183).
 Chapter 38 Page 311
“Now, if I could have believed that she favoured Drummle with any idea of making me -me -- wretched, I should have been in better heart about it; but in that habitual way of
hers, she put me so entirely out of the question, that I could believe nothing of the kind”
(311).
2. It is apparent that Pip and Estella both seek affluence and class. Estella seeks it through
marriage while Pip uses Magwitch’s funds to become part of “high society”.
 Chapter 38 Page 311
“`You know he has nothing to recommend him but money, and a ridiculous roll of addleheaded predecessors; now, don't you?'
`Well?' said she again; and each time she said it, she opened her lovely eyes the wider”
(311).
 Chapter 22 Page 178
“As he was so communicative, I felt that reserve on my part would be a bad return
unsuited to our years. I therefore told him my small story, and laid stress on my being
forbidden to inquire who my benefactor was. I further mentioned that as I had been
brought up a blacksmith in a country place, and knew very little of the ways of politeness,
I would take it as a great kindness in him if he would give me a hint whenever he saw me
at a loss or going wrong” (178).
Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. New York, New York: Penguin Putnam Inc., 2003.
Jenn Pacicco:
Wuthering Heights: Catherine Earnshaw and Young Catherine
Catherine Earnshaw: Chapter 8, Page 61
"No . . . not yet, Edgar Linton – sit down; you shall not leave me in that temper. I should
be miserable all night, and I won't be miserable for you!"
Young Catherine: Chapter 23, Page 200
"Don't let me go home thinking I've done you harm!"
Both Catherines treat their Linton spouses the same way. Both physically harm and
wrongly find fault in them. When Edgar and Linton both try to leave, both Catherines
become master manipulators to force them to stay.
Great Expectations: Biddy and Estella
Biddy: Chapter 17, Page 101
"If I could only get myself to fall in love with you – you don't mind my speaking so
openly to such an old acquaintance?"
"Oh dear, not at all!" said Biddy. "Don't mind
me."
"If I could only get myself to do it, that would be the thing for me."
"But you
never will, you see," said Biddy
Estella: Chapter 21, Page 181
The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her
simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and
often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace,
against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. Once for all; I
loved her nonetheless because I knew it, and it had no more influence in restraining me,
than if I had devoutly believed her to be human perfection.
Biddy and Estella are both the women of interest in Pip’s life. Even though Biddy treats
Pip a lot better, Pip ultimately only wants her when he can’t have Estella.