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 (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
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
