Great Expectations
Chapters 22 - 26
Annabelle, Daisy and Rafe
Plot Overview…
• Pip enjoys dinner with Herbert and asks him to
tutor him in becoming a gentleman.
• Herbert tells Pip about Miss Havisham: Miss H
fell in love with a man of a lower social class
who persuaded her to buy half of the brewery,
• Pip then goes to the Royal Exchange and then
to Mathew Pocket’s house for tutoring.
• He takes care of his social manners and with
the way he eats.
• Pip goes to dinner with Wemmick and sees the
different way he acts at work and out of work.
• Pip gets to know his fellow students form
Pocket’s and visits Wemmick in his “castle” of
a home.
• Pip then has a fight with another of Jagger’s
students.
Character’s
development…
• Pip: Changes after he meets Miss Havisham and
wants to become a gentle man.
• Mr Jaggers: Guardian to Pip and Miss Haversham’s
lawyer he always wins his cases.
• Herbert Pocket: He becoems great friends with
Pip and helps him to become a gentleman.
• Mr Wemmick: Has a two sided personality and act
very different when at home and when at work.
Literacy Effects…
Dialect
“Why should she wreak revenge on all the male
sex?”
This quote shows dialect of the Dickens era
because it states language like ‘wreak’ which is a
another word for cause.
Metaphors
“As I stood idle by Mr. Jaggers’s fire, its rising
and falling flame made the two casts on the shelf
look as if they were playing a diabolical game at
bo-peep with me; while the pair of coarse fat
office candles that dimly lighted Mr. Jaggers as
he wrote in a corner, were decorated with dirty
winding-sheets, as if in remembrance of a host of
hanged clients”
• This fire seems to be a normal and
commonplace however the use of similes and
metaphors make the place seem quite
gruesome. We can also see words like a flailing
flame and fat office candles being used to
create the effect that this room of Jaggers is
beyond the normal room
Symbols
“at which she afterwards stopped all the clocks”
This stopping of the clocks by Miss Haversham is
a symbol of the stopping of her life and not
wanting to let the past go. She has stopped the
clocks after she got left at the altar. I think that in
Great Expectations symbols are used to great
effect and this is a very good example of it. This
comments on the stopping of her life.
Activity…
•Word search &
Discussion
• “How does the change in Pip’s mind set and aspirations
affect the other characters?”
• “How do the other characters affect pip?”
• “To what extent does the change in setting add to the
progression within the plot?”
Thank you!