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*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) | *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) | ||
*41 Pip's "cowardice" (that is his guilt and self-recrimination) - does this go through? | *41 Pip's "cowardice" (that is his guilt and self-recrimination) - does this go through? | ||
| + | *43 national debt - Framley mentions it was a big issue in late 1850s | ||
==Theme Tracking== | ==Theme Tracking== | ||
Revision as of 12:48, 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)
- 41 Pip's "cowardice" (that is his guilt and self-recrimination) - does this go through?
- 43 national debt - Framley mentions it was a big issue in late 1850s
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"
