Difference between revisions of "Great Expectations (Dickens, 1861)"
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*33 the sergeant recites a jingle for Musical Glasses as a toast - advertising | *33 the sergeant recites a jingle for Musical Glasses as a toast - advertising | ||
*amazing sentence about all the material things tending toward the fugitives | *amazing sentence about all the material things tending toward the fugitives | ||
| − | *36-7 perception fuddled by atmosphere as they pursue the convicts to the Marshes, again reminiscent of Bleak House | + | *36-7 perception fuddled by atmosphere as they pursue the convicts to the Marshes, again reminiscent of Bleak House (though pitched differently since its through Pip's eyes vs the disembodied narrator, perhaps a little closer to Esther) |
==Theme Tracking== | ==Theme Tracking== | ||
Revision as of 12:38, 3 May 2017
Contents
General Notes
- 17 interchangeability of people within clothes, as in Bleak House
- 33 the sergeant recites a jingle for Musical Glasses as a toast - advertising
- amazing sentence about all the material things tending toward the fugitives
- 36-7 perception fuddled by atmosphere as they pursue the convicts to the Marshes, again reminiscent of Bleak House (though pitched differently since its through Pip's eyes vs the disembodied narrator, perhaps a little closer to Esther)
Theme Tracking
Reading/Writing
- 3 Pip imagining his dead parents from the writing on their tombstones
Materiality
Shakespeare References
- 25 Wopsle says Grace like "a religious cross of the Ghost in Hamlet with Richard the Third"
