Great Expectations (Dickens, 1861)

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"
• 63 P's disquisition on injustice, followed by seeing a ghost

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
• 73 the tattered book for students at Mr Wopsle's great aunt's school

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