1) When out at the old battery with Joe one day, Pip describes the sea and the ships (124). Why do they remind him of Miss Havisham? What's the connection? What does the sea seem to represent to Pip?
2) What do you think of the Orlick character? What stands out about this man? We also get to see another side of Joe due to the resulting fight. Any opinions on this?
3) When Pip meets up with Mr. Wopsle in town, he has a copy of "the affecting tragedy of George Barnwell. This is an allusion. To make any sense out of the next two pages you'll need to do a quick search. Why is Dickens' choice of this piece of literature appropriate for our story? Oh.....speaking of Mr. Wopsle....what do we think of him? What is his occupation? What does he want to be?
Pip's visit to Miss Havisham only results in more frustration, but we are left again with a mystery that keeps us reading...Mrs. Joe bonked on the head!
2) In my opinion, even though Orlick is a devilish character that sickens me, he brings excitement to the setting and plot. This is because of how he portrays himself and how he acts around Pip and his family. Orlick is the disgusting character that the reader hates because he has such brutality and ruins everybody's life. This brings flavour to the novel and brings the reader in to see what sick things Orlick will do next.
ReplyDeleteIn the novel, Orlick is portrayed as the antagonist and is very different from the other characters. He is an evil person and this leads to attacking and hurting others because he simply enjoys it.
Orlick shows a consistency of slouching in an evil kind of way which also symbolizes how cold hearted he is. An example of literary text is when Pip explains, "he wiped his brow with his arm, took another wipe at it with his apron, and came slouching out." (Dickens, 124)
Orlick's evilness makes the lives of others worse in novel by his his sick actions, but at the same time, even though the reader knows how cruel he is, it makes the plot line a lot more interesting.
1) Pip sees Miss Havisham and Estella as part of a more interesting world. He is intrigued by their more proper lifestyle, becoming ashamed of his own home and work. He craves to be in their world and dreads the thought of Estella finding him "doing the coarsest part of [his] work"(Dickens, 121).
ReplyDeleteThe "sails on the river passing beyond the earthwork"(124) is in relation to Miss Havisham and how her world-her sails-move farther beyond Pip's reach. As his life becomes solely the "road of apprenticeship to Joe"(121), Pip might feel as if he's stuck in this part of life-stuck on land. He watches the sea's waves and see's something beautiful and to him "Miss Havisham and Estella... appeared to have something to do with everything that was picturesque"(124).