CHARLES DICKENS: HERE WE GO!!!

• A novel of education, of maturity: Buildungsroman
• An appropriate fantasy for Pip: feels he is different.
• Normal path of life isn't good enough.
• "Am I wicked?" A repetitive question for Pip.
• Doesn't know what normal is.
• Adopts male role model: fatherless.
• Magwitch - threat to the outside adult world; children needs protection.
• Magwitch - a possibility of what Pip may become.
• Have a sham - Havisham; symbolizes a horrible decay on one hand.
• Memorial to dead hope - since she was left at the alter.
• Estella is trained to be a heartbreaker by Havisham.
• Havisham is hope - she's rich but she's not what she seems, dichotomy.
• A pip is a seed: a character who has not yet become.
• A desire to be something more.
• Fairytale world is interrupted by moral world of give and take.
• Joe Gargery and Jaggers: opposite extremes.
• Is this like I?: J is interchangeable with I; both the names start with J.
• Jagger knows the darkest secret about everyone, which can hurt them
• Joe - rich emotionally, not financially.
• Jagger - cold and objective.
• Jagger - Estella, Molly, Havisham, early Magwitch.
• Wemmick - one guy at home and one guy at office, with former being foil to the latter.
• Magwitch - represents Pip in worse conditions.
• Magwitch - leads different life in childhood and after friends with Pip, negative and positive, respectively.
• Four realizations of Pip: 1) Havisham is not fairy godmother. 2) Estella not intended for Pip but only training process. 3) Magwitch authored Pip's expectations. 4) You can't be told, you have to seek out.
• Characterization and transformation of Pip depends on Joe and Jagger.
• Pip is a fantacist - a major difference between Joe, Jagger and Pip.
• "Pip wants to dance but doesn't want to pay for the band."
• Pip - talks about his imperfections but doesn't understand it; only a confession.
• Many similarities between Pip and Holden, from the Catcher in the Rye.