Great Expectations (Dickens, 1861)
From Commonplace Book
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
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"
