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*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 | *43 national debt - Framley mentions it was a big issue in late 1850s | ||
| + | *60 the patterning of clocks: the Dutch clock at the Gargerys', at Satis house "everything in the room had stopped like the watch and the clock, a long time ago" | ||
==Theme Tracking== | ==Theme Tracking== | ||
Revision as of 17:08, 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
- 60 the patterning of clocks: the Dutch clock at the Gargerys', at Satis house "everything in the room had stopped like the watch and the clock, a long time ago"
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
