Difference between revisions of "Great Expectations (Dickens, 1861)"

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===Materiality===
 
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===Shakespeare References===
 
===Shakespeare References===
 
*25 Wopsle says Grace like "a religious cross of the Ghost in Hamlet with Richard the Third"
 
*25 Wopsle says Grace like "a religious cross of the Ghost in Hamlet with Richard the Third"
 
*44 again Wopsle reciting Mark Anthony's funeral oration from Julius Caesar to the children
 
*44 again Wopsle reciting Mark Anthony's funeral oration from Julius Caesar to the children

Revision as of 17:04, 3 May 2017

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
  • 45 Pip's slate and chalk letter to Joe

Materiality

  • 57 Miss Havisham's dress

Shakespeare References

  • 25 Wopsle says Grace like "a religious cross of the Ghost in Hamlet with Richard the Third"
  • 44 again Wopsle reciting Mark Anthony's funeral oration from Julius Caesar to the children