Great Expectations Quotes Flashcards
(45 cards)
Magwitch 1
“I could ha’ got clear of these death-cold flats likewise… if I hadn’t made the discovery that he was here”
Language technique: Anaphora
Theme: Crime, Guilt, and Innocence
Magwitch is ethically honourable
Magwitch 2
“And then, dear boy, it was a recompense to me, look’ee here, to know in a secret that I was making a gentleman”
Language technique: using multiple Interrupters
Theme: Sophistication
Magwitch’s joy came from Pip being a gentleman
Magwitch 3
“They always went on agen me about the Devil. But what the devil was I to do?”
Language technique: Anadiplosis
Theme: Crime, Guilt, and Innocence
Magwitch became a criminal by necessity, rather than choice
Pip 1
“The abhorrence in which I held the man… could not have been exceeded if he had been some terrible beast”
Language technique: Metaphor
Theme: Crime, guilt, and innocene
Pip 2
“What I suffered outside was nothing to what I underwent within”
Language technique: Anaphora
Them: Crime, guilt, and innocence
Pip 3
“I was haunted by the fear that she would… exult over me and despise me”
Language technique: synonyms
Theme: Social Class
Pip 4
“I had believed in the forge as the glowing road to manhood and independence”
Language technique: simile
Them: Ambition and Self-Improvement
Pip 5
“I want to be a gentleman on her account”
Language technique: None
Theme: Social Class
Pip 6
“I am not at all happy as I am. I am disgusted with my calling and with my life”
Language technique: Anaphora, Anadiplosis
Theme: Ambition and Self-Improvement
Joe Gargery 1
“I wish it was only me that got put out, Pip… I wish I could take it all on myself”
Language technique: Anaphora
Theme: Relationships
Joe Gargery 2
“Lies is lies… that ain’t the way to get out of being common”
Language technique: Repetition
Theme: Crime, Guilt and Innocence
Joe Gargery 3
“It ain’t that I am proud, but that I want to be right”
Language technique: Anaphora
Theme: Social Class
Estella 1
“It’s other name was Satis; which is… for enough”
People must have been “easily satisfied” back then
Language technique: Metaphor
Theme: Social Class
Estella 2
“Who taught me to be proud? Who praised me when I learned my lesson?”
Language technique: Anaphora, Rhetorical question
Theme: Relationships
Estella 3
“I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape”
Language technique: Metaphor
Theme: Ambition and Self-Improvement
Miss Havisham 1
“You cold, cold heart!”
Language technique: Irony, Metaphor
Theme: Relationships
Miss Havisham 2
“Did I never give her love… Did I never give her a burning love”
Language technique: Anaphora
Theme: Relationships
Miss Havisham 3
“I stole her heart away, and put ice in its place”
Language technique: Metaphor
Theme: Relationships
Herbert Pocket 1
“What a degraded and vile sight it is!”
Herbert Pocket 2
he had “A natural incapacity to do anything secret and mean”
Herbert Pocket 3
“I sadly missed the cheerful face and ready response of my friend”
Jaggers 1
“Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence.”
Jaggers 2
“You’ll go wrong somehow, but that’s no fault of mine”
Jaggers 3
“The office is paid for, the house is paid for, the business is paid for.”
