Great Expecations Marxism Reading Flashcards
(3 cards)
Characters?
LOWER CLASS:
- joe and biddy although poor have good hearts
-mag witch, good/caring for pip
-or lick = murder
HIGHER CLASS:
-Herbet pocket: good best friend with pip and helps him
-havisham: da liberally raised estella for revenge and pretended to be pips benefactor
“Common boy”
MORAL THEME:
-explores class system
-realisation that wealth and class are less important than affection, loyalty and inner worth
-these things are not connected to class, as there are good and bad in each class
-ignored nobility in favour of characters
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IRONIC
-convict been funding his gentleman ways
-dream dismantled expectations crushing down in butterfly effect
-no happy being gentleman than he was when he was a blacksmith
-we sympathies is with pip because we all have high hopes
DESIRES
-shredding ignorant cowboy ways and becoming learned
-moral reform and become a better person
- stem for unattainable love for wateela
•”I want to be a gentleman of her account”
EMBODIES MIDDLE CLASS:
-refers to pip future feeling as representation of middle class
-desires grater things for himself and his future
-superficially wants to be gentleman
Class anxiety
-rejects the determination of social decision in accordance with private profits rather than human needs
-base social decision based on status accorded to them by the capital rather than there human needs
-anxiety over joe coming to London can be seen as a commercial relationship that is opposite of the social relationship
•personal level corrupted by capital
-“I live in chronic uneasiness respecting my behaviour to joe”
•aware he must act the way of his new class
-wealth conceals the relaty of suffering and hardship
-critic of industrial revolution
-mag witch must steal to live
