General
1) The protagonist of this novel,
Pip, is a young boy that is full of expectations but faces unexpected
challenges in life. He was taken in by his sister and her husband. This novel expresses
the maturity of Pip and shows how he grows throughout the story with people
that were both good or bad but were both influential.
2) Pip is determined to live life
adventurously but he is held back by his child like mind.
3) Dickens uses detailed
information as he describes different scenarios and uses strong imagery while
doing so. For example: "His age was about sixty. That he was a muscular
man, strong on his legs, and that he was browned and hardened by exposure to
kind of amazement, that he was holding out of both hands to me"
4 Imagery: "stretching up
cautiously out of their graves, to get a twist around his ankle and pull him
in.”
Point of view: "I had never
felt before, so blessedly, what it is to have a friend.”
Metaphor: "when I first left
the forge, so, the evening mists were rising now.”
Syntax: "become
constitutionally green and yellow by reason of me"
Foreshadowing: “Magwitch returned
with a complete change of character. It was as if though he wanted the audience
to be against him.
Foil: “Joe loves Pip and Orlick
is one selfish and unlikeable person
Motifs: “The connection between
the world of Pip with the other characters.
Allusion: "through his
struggle with Laertes on the brink of the orchestra and the grave"
Aphorism: "one's
white-smith, and one's goldsmith, and one's a copper-smith. Divisions among
such must come.
Characterization:
1) Direct: "I found him to
be a dry man, rather short of stature, with a square wooden face"
"He rubbed, first of them,
and then the other, in a most uncongenial and uncomfortable matter.
Indirect: "is he changed?” “Very much"
"That girls’ hard and
haughty and capriciouse to the last degree.”
2) The author uses qualities
which makes Pip as a character change throughout the novel. The diction and
syntax show the characterizations of each individual.
3) The protagonist is dynamic
because Pip's character shows the improvement of growing throughout the novel.
4) I felt as if though Pip was a
strong character as I was able to see his improvement throughout the novel. He
matured throughout the text and became a whole new character.
