1) Can anyone summarize Miss Havisham's story?
2) After nicknaming Pip "Handel" (why Handel?), Herbert relates the story of Miss Havisham all the while correcting Pip's table manners. What is the humour in this?
3) What kind of person does Herbert seem to be? Look at his treatment of Pip, and his explanation of what he does for a living.
4) We are introduced to the Pocket family at the end of this chapter. What impression do you have of Mrs. Pocket and her parenting skills (tumbling up)?
Why do the characters in the novel have a Christian name and a regular name? What is the significance of the Christian name?
ReplyDeleteThe regular name is the name given to the baby by its parents. The christian name is the name given to the baby after it is baptised. The reason the baby is given a new name is because it is representative of its new life. Since the baby is renewed and given a new life in the baptism, it is only fitting that it should have a new name given to it.
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ReplyDelete4.) Personally, it seems that Mrs.Pocket is quite a simple mother, and quite lax with her children. Unfortunately she also seems very scattered brained. She also has too many children to keep track of, and needs help from others (Millers and Flopson) in order to properly care for them. Unlike Pips sister, she seems more gentle (and a bit stern.) The book described the children "like a little flock of sheep" (Dickens, 186) so that would mean she and the nurses are more or less shepards, which would account for the caring, yet stern "tumbling up" of the kids, as shepards must be calm and collected in order to not scare the sheep away, but also to have an iron fist to make sure they behave properly.
ReplyDeleteWhy does Pip let Herbert nickname him, if he has agreed to "always bear the name of Pip"(Dickens, 154)?
ReplyDelete1) Miss Havisham was a spoiled little girl by her father. Her mother had died when she was younger and her father later on privately remarried to the cook. Those two then had a baby boy who was her half-brother. Once her father had pasted away she was left with a good amount of money. She later fell for a man that was a gentleman on the outside but on the inside was a terrible man. Him and her half brother worked together to get Miss Havisham to buy out her brother from the brewery and to give it all to him. However, on the day of Miss Havisham's wedding her groom had wrote her a note and left without saying a word in person. He took the money from the brewery. That is when Miss Havisham had stopped all the clocks at that exact time.
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