Name: _______KEY________________________ Mods: _________ Date: ________ Honors English I
Great Expectations Stage 3 Study Guide
Ch. 40
Quote
Speaker
Significance
“Take nothing on its looks; take
Jaggers
Jaggers implies that Pip should not have
everything on evidence” (334/360).
assumed that Miss Havisham is his benefactor.
1. In the end of the third paragraph of the chapter, Pip trips over a person in the staircase. We find out in Ch. 53
that this person is ______Orlick______________________.
2. Note Dickens’ dry humor on pg. 328/353, as Pip reflects on his future: “As to forming any plan for the future,
I could as soon have formed an __elephant________________.”
3. According to his own report, what was Magwitch brought up to be? ___warmint (varmint)____________
4. What inference can we make from Magwitch’s answer to Pip’s question, “Were you – tried – in London?”
Magwitch was arrested several times.
5. Diction: In the paragraph describing Magwitch as he eats (329/355), what vivid words does Dickens use to
convey an animalistic attribute to Magwitch?
Fangs, ravenously
6. What is the irony of Magwitch’s Bible? (333/358)
It has been stolen. Also, the Bible is used by the criminal justice system which has convicted Magwitch.
Ch. 41 1. Why does Pip refer to Herbert as “Poor fellow!” on pg. 341/368 ?
Herbert does not know that his job depends on Pip’s ability to pay for it.
Ch. 42
Quote
Speaker
Significance
“In jail and out of jail, in jail and out
Magwitch
Magwitch hardly had a chance to be a successful
of jail, in jail and out of jail. There,
man.
you’ve got it. That’s my life pretty
much” (345/371).
1. Diction: What is the effect of the repetition in the quote above?
It illustrates the repetitive nature of Magwitch’s crimes and convictions, and therefore the hopelessness of his
situation.
2. CLUES: Give the exact words of the clues which are given in this chapter:
Clue
page
What it reveals
“Him and Compeyson had been in a bad thing
347/373 Compeyson’s connection with Miss Havisham
with a rich lady some years afore.”
“My missus as I had a hard time wi—“
349/375
Magwitch’s wife
Ch. 43
Quote
Speaker
Significance
“Haven’t you lost enough without that?” Drummle
Pip has lost Estella to Drummle.
357/383
1. Personification: “…the day came creeping on, halting and whimpering and shivering, and wrapped in
patches of cloud and rags of mist, like a beggar.”
Ch. 44
Quote
Speaker
Significance
“It seems that there are sentiments,
Estella
Estella explains her inability to feel for others.
fancies … which I am not able to
comprehend” (362/389).
1. Explain Estella’s rationale for “flinging” herself away on Drummle (364/390).
She would rather marry someone whose feelings will not be hurt by her inability to love.
2. What literary device is present in the following passage? ___epiphany________________________
“Ever afterwards, I remembered…that while Estella looked at me merely with incredulous wonder, the spectral
figure of Miss Havisham, her hand still covering her heart, seemed all resolved into a ghastly stare of pity and
remorse.”
Ch. 45
Quote
Speaker
Significance
“Don’t let anything happen to the
Wemmick
He advises Pip to secure Magwitch’s cash.
portable property” (373/400)
1. Personification: “The closet whispered, the fire-place sighed, the little washing-stand ticked, and one
guitar-string played occasionally in the chest of drawers.”
2. Notice the evasive way in which Wemmick discloses information. Who is “Tom, Jack, or Richard”?
Magwitch
Ch. 46
1. Who is “Gruffandgrim”? ______Clara’s father_______________________________
2. What change in Pip is evident in the paragraph beginning, “We thought it best that he should stay…”?
(380/407)
Pip is genuinely concerned for Magwitch.
Ch . 47
1. Mystery/Suspense: Pip, as narrator, states that, “To think that I should be so unconscious and off my guard
after all my care was as if I had shut an avenue of a hundred doors to keep him out, and then had found him at
my elbow.” Who is the “him” here? ____Compeyson__________________
Ch. 48
1. Jaggers predicts that, as a husband, Drummle will either _beat______ or ____cringe_____________.
2. What 2 physical attributes of Molly reveal to Pip that she is Estella’s mother?
a)__knitting action of her hands____
b)__her eyes____________________
Ch. 49
Quote
“Is it real?” (398/425)
“I saw in you a looking-glass that
showed me what I once felt myself”
(401/428).
“I stole her heart away and put ice in
its place.”(401/429)
Speaker
Miss Havisham
Miss Havisham
Miss Havisham
Significance
She is in a daze, and wonders if she is only
dreaming, or if Pip is really there.
She explains her epiphany.
This is her reflection on what she has done to
Estella.
1. Who is “part of the wrecked fortunes” of Satis House (398/425)? Pip
2. Miss Havisham wishes Pip to write, “_I forgive her__,” under her name.
3. What can we infer of Miss Havisham from her words in the following passage?
“I had first seen him when I sent for him to lay this place waste for me, having read of him in the newspapers
before I and the world parted.”
She does not read the newspapers anymore.
4. Flashback: “The mournfulness of the place and time, and the great terror of this illusion…caused me to feel
an indescribable awe as I came out between the open wooden gates where I had once wrung my hair after
Estella had wrung my heart.”
5. Flashback: “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.”
6. Was it Miss Havisham’s intent to give Estella a heart that could not ever love? __Not at first________ What
was her original intent? To raise a little girl who would not be hurt as she herself had been.
Ch. 50
Quote
Speaker
Significance
“I should think his pegging must be
Herbert
Clara’s father is near death.
nearly over” (407/435)
1. What does the narrator mean when he tells us of his and Herbert’s “agreeing..to make my recovery of the use
of my hands a question of so many hours, not of so many weeks”?
Pip needs to recover in order to row the boat to safety for Magwitch.
2. Note the great care with which Herbert helps to bandage Pip’s hands. Give some words of his concern:
“Makes you shrink at first, my poor fellow, don’t it. But it will be comfortable presently.”
3. Note Herbert’s remark, “You remember his breaking off here about some woman that he had had great
trouble with.” Who is “he”? ____Magwtich_____ Who is the “woman”?__Molly_____________
(407/435)
Ch. 51
1. Social commentary: Describe Jaggers’ experience with children in the legal system of Pip’s society.
(416/445)
Jaggers describes children being “generated in great numbers for certain destruction.”
He says that he has seen them “imprisoned, whipped, transported, neglected, cast out, qualified in all ways for
the hangman, and growing up to be hanged.”
He claims that nearly all of the children he has seen in his daily business life eventually come to be “prosecuted,
defended, forsworn, made orphans, and bedeviled somehow.”
2. What is the farce (pretense) that Wemmick and Jaggers preserve between themselves regarding their lives
outside of the office? –That they have no feelings.
What is the purpose of presenting the man with the tear twinkling in his eye at the end of the chapter?
For Jaggers and Wemmick to preserve the pretense of lack of feelings at the office.
Ch. 52
1. What is the first positive result of Pip’s great expectations?
Herbert’s professional success.
2. What is the advice presented in Wemmick’s letter which Pip receives by post?
Take Magwitch away early in the week.
3. Who will help Herbert & Pip row Magwitch out of England? _Startop______________________
4. Note the aspects of Joe’s and Pumblechook’s personalities which are made more clear through their contrast
with one another on pg. 423/453.
Pumblechook = ___falser_______ Joe = __truer__________________________
____meaner_____
__nobler__________________________
Ch. 53
1. What are Orlick’s reasons to seek revenge from Pip?
Pip stands to inherit the forge.
Orlick blames Pip that Biddy does not like Orlick.
Pip has gotten Orlick fired from his job.
2. Which characters save Pip?
Trabb’s boy, Herbert, Startop
Ch. 54
1. The steamer on which Pip and his friends hope to board turns out to be carrying _Compeyson_______, who
is leading authorities in pursuit of Magwitch.
2. __Magwitch_______ and ___Compeyson______________ go underwater together, fighting and struggling.
Only __Magwtich_________________ swims to the surface of the water.
3. Magwitch has an injury to his __chest___________________.
4. The pocketbook that Magwitch had given to Pip winds up in the officer’s hands. This contained the
“____portable property______________” which Wemmick had warned Pip to keep safe for himself.
5. Re-read the paragraph beginning, “For now my repugnance to him,” on pg. 450/479. Pip narrates, “I only
saw in him a much better man than I had been to Joe.” This shows Pip’s new sensitivity and humility.
6. What does Pip decide in the last sentence of the chapter?
To propose marriage to Biddy.
Ch. 55
Quote
Speaker
Significance
“Halloa! Here’s a church!” “Let’s go in!”
Wemmick
Wemmick is marrying Miss Skiffins.
“Halloa! Here’s a couple of paif of gloves!
Let’s put ‘em on!”
1. From whom does Pip receive an offer of employment in this chapter?
Herbert
2. Wemmick requests that the events of the day not be mentioned where? __The office_________
Ch. 56
Quote
Speaker
Significance
“She lived and found powerful friends. Pip
Pip reveals to Magwitch that his daughter
She is living now. She is a lady and
has lived and prospered.
very beautiful. And I love her!”
1. Irony: “Foremost among the two-and-thirty was he; seated, that he might get breath enough to keep life in
him.” Why is this ironic?
They seat him so that he will not die; they intend to sentence him to death.
2. What were Magwitch’s last words?
“I don’t complain of none, dear boy.”
3. Allusion: “I thought of the two men who went up into the Temple to pray, and I knew there were no better
words that I could say beside his bed than ‘O Lord, be merciful to him a sinner!’ ”
Ch. 57
Quote
Speaker
Significance
“When you’re well enough to go for a ride—what Joe
Joe anticipates Pip’s recovery and the
larks!”468/497
happy times they will have together
afterwards.
“Why, you see, old chap, I wouldn’t go so far as to Joe
Joe is not comfortable directly telling
say that, for that’s a deal to say…” 470/499
Pip that Miss Havisham has died.
1. Pip is arrested for ____debt__________________.
2. Miss Havisham left 4000 pounds to whom? ____Matthew Pocket___________________________.
3.Orlick is in the county jail for ____stealing from Pumblechook____________________________________.
4. Who pays Pip’s expenses? ___Joe__________________________
5. The chapter ends with Pip’s resolve to do what?
Propose marriage to Biddy.
Ch. 58
Quote
“ ‘he knows my total deficiency of common
human gratitoode. He knows it, Joseph, as
none can. You do not know it, Joseph,
having no call to know it.’ ”
1. What was Mrs. Joe’s given name?
Georgiana Maria
Speaker
Pumblechook
Significance
Pumblechook pompously accuses Pip
of lack of gratitude, and infers that Pip
need not feel gratitude toward Joe.
2. What hints are there that a wedding will take place on the day of Pip’s return to the forge?
The forge is closed; it is clearly not a work day.
3. Does Herbert ever find out of Pip’s assistance in his career?
Yes, years later, when Pip is nearly a partner in the firm.
Ch. 59
Has Estella changed in either of Dickens’ endings?
Yes.
Original ending: “Suffering had been stronger than Miss Havisham’s teaching, and had given her a heart to
understand what my heart used to be.”
Second ending: Estella says, “Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to
understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.”