Great Expectations Lecture

Bildungsroman: 
- novel of education and maturity from childhood to adulthood
Pip: 
- has imaginings of what his life could be like, but he doesn't see that these desires don't come without effort because he's a child. 
- He's an orphan and acts with my sensitivity. 
- He has a strong sense of being unwanted and is conscience of getting the short end of the stick. 
- Questions if he deserved what he's gotten or if it's unfair. 
- He doesn't know what normal is. 
- He has grand expectations and fears. Vulnerable. 
- Adopts males as role models because he's fatherless.
- He's a seed (he hasn't yet become)
Magwitch: 
- He represents the outside adult world that parents try to protect their kids from. 
- Eats like an animal. 
- Not government by civilization. 
- Has capacity for wickedness and brutality. 
- He represents a threat of abandonment, greed, evil, etc.
- He sends a message to pip: if he's with Magwitch what does it say about him (Pip)
Havisham: 
- Witch like figure. 
- Has duel meaning: horrible decay and dream unfulfilled & shining promise, potential of fairy godmother character. 
- Sacrificed her life for betrayal. 
- Everything since the day she was left at the alter is untouched (represents dead hopes) 
- Duel possibility of adulthood. 
- She's rich but not what she seems (either is Estella)
Estella 
- Trained to be a heartbreaker by Havisham
- Pip is smitten with Estella. 
- They remind pip of himself
Fairy tale part: 
- Male desire to dominate the world and wanting to be something more
- Fairy tale world is interrupted by reality of give and take
- Pip has to take active steps to see what will happen in his life
- Pip meets more father figures (Joe and Jaggers) 
- Uses these characters to embody the moral universe. 
- Is pip like Joe (physical work where he derives power but he doesn't use it) or Jaggers (knows things about people which gives him power and uses it to keep others loyal)
Joe:
- Lives by feeling. 
- Looks at situations as a whole and goes with gut. 
- Doesn't judge on appearances. Romantic. 
- He isn't successful financially but has rich emotional life. He's content.
Jaggers
- Lives by letter of the law. 
- Cold objective. 
- Doesn't deal with emotions. 
- Makes others spell things out. He makes things hard on people. 
- Only thing that can be trusted are facts (difference between joe). Has a lot of money but isn't emotional.
- Joe keeps mother and child together and adopts child
- Jagger sends child away and uses the mother as his servant. Jagger is purely a business man and tells pip that
Wemick: 
- Plays off of Jagger. 
- Clerk. 
- Works with Jagger's. 
- Two different Guys at work and home (Joe-like privately and Jagger at work). 
- Represents old nostalgic world. 
- People are worth more than money. 
- Has both philosophies throughout his day. 
- Thinks as money as an advantage at work
- Pip tries different personalities and traits some he likes some he does.
Magwitch 
- Represents Pip in bad circumstances. 
- He identifies with pip as an orphan. 
- Has a double life. Evil life of childhood. Better life as he grows and is influenced by Pip
- Less action and more mindset of protagonist
1- Havisham is not fairy godmother
2- Estella isn't intended for Pip but part of her training process
3- Magwwitch has created Pips expectations and thoughts.
- It's not about adult telling a child how to live his life but the child figuring it out on his own
- Joe has accepted moral compromise (lower than where pip sees himself)
- Pip wants to be practical like Jagger but also emotional like Joe. He differs from both he's a fantasist. He doesn't make compromises yet. He's a realist.
- Joe married Miss Joe. 
- Magwitch stays alone. 
- Pip cuts himself off from his past. He becomes a snob because he can't commit to who he is. Distant and judgmental and unwilling to be vulnerable. 
- Pip doesn't get it yet. 
- His autobiography is a confession. Dealing at middle age with the problem of his youth. It's catching up to him. It's a self cautionary tale.
- Estella isn't worth pursuing. Pip doesn't want to have fantasies. They aren't the same couple. They're a middle aged couple that has failed
- Joe has married Bitty and has a child named Pip