great expectations quotes

pip’s childhood trauma

• “as i never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them, my first fancies regarding what they were like were unreasonably derived from their tombstones”

• “to five little stone lozenges … were sacred to the memory of five little brothers of mine”

• “small bundle of shivers growing afraid of it all, was Pip”

• “Joe Gargery and I were both brought up by hand”

• “joe and i being fellow-sufferers”

• “my tickled frame”

• “tickler was a waxe-ended piece of cane, worn smooth by collision with my tickled frame”

• “I was in mortal terror of the young man who wanted my heart and liver; I was in mortal terror of my interlocutor with the iron leg; I was in mortal terror of myself, from whom an awful promise had been extracted;”

pip’s childhood in satis house

• “coarse hands”

• “i had never thought of being ashamed of my hands before; but I began to consider them a very indifferent pair”

• “my opinion of those accessories was not favorable”

• “vulgar appendages”

• “her contempt was so strong, that it became infectious, and i caught it”

• “i would feel more shamed of home than ever, in my own ungracious breast”

• “I wished Joe had been rather more genteelly brought up, and then I should have been so too”

• “so bitter were my feelings, and so sharp was the smart without a name, that needed counteraction”

• “i got rid of my injured feelings for the time by kicking them into the brewery wall, and twisting them out of my hair”

• “i saw a figure hanging there by the neck”

pip’s failings in london

• “i soon contracted expensive habits”

• “decorating the chambers in some quite unnecessary and inappropriate way”

• “i even started a boy in boots…in bondage and slavery”

• “i had made the monster”

• “he haunted my existence” “this avenging phantom”

pip’s relationship with other characters in london

• “…not beneficial to Herbert. my lavish habits led his easy nature into expenses that he could not afford, corrupted the simplicity of his life, and disturbed his peace with anxieties and regrets”

• “if agreeable to be allowed to see you” (biddy writes to pip)

• “let me confess exactly with what feelings i looked forward to joe’s coming. not with pleasure.”

• “clumsy manner” “sitff from head to foot” (pip to joe when he visits him)

• “of course i know that” “you began adoring her the first time you saw her, when you were very young indeed” (herbert to pip)

pips moral growth in the novel (reconciling with joe)

• “receive my humble thanks for all you have done for me, and all I have so ill repaid”

• “if i could repay it a thousand times over, i suppose i could cancel a farthing of the debt i owe you, or that i would do so if i could!”

• “Long-suffering and loving Joe, you never complain. Nor you, sweet-tempered Biddy!”

• “I only saw in him (magwitch) a much better man than I had been to joe”

pips moral growth ( newfound concern for magwitch)

• “i reluctantly gave him my hands”

• “while i recoiled from his touch as if he had been a snake”

• “my blood ran cold”

• “i little suppose my heart could ever be as heavy and anxious at parting from him as it was now”

• “my repugnance to him had all melted away, and in the hunted wounded shackled creature who held my hand in his”

• “i am very desirous to serve a friend”

• “now i want somehow to help him to a beginning”

pip and trabb’s boy

“a boy who excited loathinf in every respectable mind”

“sorry ever to have had an ill opinion of him”

jaggers introduction

• “of an exceedingly dark complexion”

• “with an exceedingly large head, and a corresponding large hand”

• “bushy black eyebrows that wouldn’t lie down but stood up bristling”

• “in a bullying, interrogative manner, and he threw his forefinger at Mr. Wopsle”

• “with an an air of authority not to be disputed”

• “a manner expressive of knowing something secret about every one of us”

jaggers habits

• “i embraced this opportunity of remarking that he washed his clients off, as if he were a surgeon or dentist”

• “he had a closet in his room, fitted up for the purpose, which smelt of the scented soap like a perfumer’s shop”

• “we found him with his head butted into this closet, not only washing his hands, but laving his face and gargling his throat.”

• “had gone all round the jack-towel, he took out his penknife and scraped the case out of his nails before he put his coat on”

jaggers work space

• “lighted by skylight only”

• “high-backed chair was of deadly black horsehair, with rows of brass nails round it, like a coffin”

• “being greasy with shoulders”

jaggers as a lawyer

• “was striking her, and the bench, and everybody present, with awe”

• “the magistrates shivered under a single bite of his finger

• “which side he was on i couldn’t make out”

• “grinding the whole place in a mill”

• “thieves and thief-takers hung in dread rapture on his words and shrank when a hair of his eyebrows turned in their direction”

jaggers dinner party

• “she kept her eyes attentively on my guardian”

• “not looking at her, but obstinately looking at the opposite side of the room”

• “i was expressing my tendency to lavish expenditure, and to patronize herbert, and to boast of my great prospects, before i quite knew that i had opened my lips”

• “he clapped his large hand on the housekeeper’s, like a trap, as she streched it across the table”

• “he actually seemed to serve as a zest to Mr Jagger’s wine”

jagger’s last moments

• “memorialise by-and-by, and try at all events for some of it”

• jaggers is quite angry and frustrated at pip for having become sentimental, rather than greedy and money-orientated. jagers is saying we can bring money out of this situation

• this memoralises jaggers in the readers mind as somebody who values money over everything. he only thinks abt work.

miss havisham’s first appearance

• “no glimpse of daylight was to be seen in it”

• “fine-lady’s dressing table” “no fine lady sitting in it”

• “everything within my view which ought to be white, had been white long ago, and had lost its lustre and was faded and yellow

• “no brightness left” “sunken eyes” “shurnk to skin and bone “ghastly waxwork at the Fair”

• “what do i touch” “your heart” “broken!” “she uttered the word with an eager look, and with strong emphasis and with a weird smile that had a kind of boast in it”

• “as if the admission of the natural light of day would have struck her to dust”

miss havisham as a manipulator and a sadist

• “i sometimes have sick fancies

• “bending down” “dropped” “her chest had dropped, so that she stooped; and her voice had dropped, so that she spoke low”

• “it had dropped into a watchful and brooding expression”

• whole section leading pip to believe she is his benefactor - “yes miss h” “no miss h” “so keen was her enjoyment of sarah pocket’s dismay”

• “malignant enjoyment”

• “swell with the vehemence that possessed her”

• “something positively dreadful in the energy of her looks and embraces”

• “we were mere puppets”

miss havisham as a victim/moral growth

“wild cry” “love her, love her, love her” → “it could not have sounded more like a curse”

“It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter—as I did!”

“ashy fire “ “air of utter loneliness”

“shrieking with a whirl of fire blazing all about her”

“to show you that I am not all stone. but perhaps you can never believe, now, that there is anything human in my heart”

mrs. joe’s first appearance

• called mrs joe, showing masculinity

• “she was not a good-looking woman”

• “she must have made joe gargery marry her by hand”

• “black hair and eyes, had such a prevailing redness of skin that I sometimes used to wonder whether it was possible she washed herself with a nutmeg-grater instead of soap”

• “She was tall and bony, and almost always wore a coarse apron”

• “having a square impregnable bib in front, that was stuck full of pins and needles”

miss joe’s abuse

• “throwing the door wide open, and finding an obstruction behind it, immediately divined the cause, and applied Tickler to its further investigation””

• “throwing me - i often served as a connubial missile - at joe”

• “if it warn’t for me you’d have been to the churchyard long ago, and stayed there.”

• “it’s bad enough to be a blacksmith’s wife without being your mother”