1) Pip convinces Jaggers to get Orlick away from Miss Havisham. How do you think Orlick will react if he finds out Pip is the one who convinced Jaggers to do this?
2) Trabb's boy...again...what do you make of his odd behavior? What about Pip's reaction to his behavior?
3) Herbert seems to have a very good idea of what makes Pip tick. What seems to be Dickens' purpose for including a character like Herbert in this story?
2) Trabb's boy's behaviour makes me think that there is something mentally wrong with him and that he is acting as if he possessed in some sort of way, or is imagining that some things are happening to him tang actually aren't, which is causing him to hallucinate. Also, my initial reaction is that something could be happening in his personal life that could cause him to go insane and be unstable. For example, if his father Mr. Trabb could be abusing him in many different ways, which causes a lot of children to suffer mentally.
ReplyDeletePip's reaction to Trabb's boy's odd behaviour is him saying, "This was a hard thing to bear, but this was nothing." (Dickens, 246) This means that Pip thinks his behaviour was very disturbing and horrifying to witness, but was nothing, because he's seen worse. When Trabb's boy says "Hold me! I'm so frightened!", Pip becomes very aggravated and was thinking of taking his life to put him out of his misery. Later Pip says he didn't do so because, "He was a boy whom no man could hurt," meaning nobody could do anything to him because he was already in a bad state and if anyone tried to do something to him, he would somehow get out of it and go back to yelling.
that* 6th line in first paragraph.
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