Great Expectations - Themes / Motifs / Symbols


Affection / Loyalty / Conscience
are more important than
Social Advancement / Wealth / Class

THEMES

  • Ambition and Self-Improvement - Education / Morally / Socially
  • Social Class -Wretched criminals ( Magwitch)
  •                                 Poor Peasants in marsh (Joe and Biddy)
  •                                 Middle class ( Pumblechook)
  •                                Very rich ( Miss Havishaw)
  • Crime, Guilt, Innocence


MOTIFS (Recurring structures, contrasts and literary devices that can help to develop and                                    inform the text's major themes)
  • Doubles
  • Comparison of Characters to Inanimate objects.

SYMBOLS ( Symbols are objects, characters, figures and colours that used to represent                                             abstract ideas or concepts)

  • Satis House - Miss Havisham's wedding dress ------- Death/ Degeneration
  •                                   Wedding ---------------------------------- Past
  •                                   Clock-freezed -----------------------------Refusal to Change
  •                                   Brewery next to house -------------------Commerce and Wealth

  • Mists in the marsh - Danger
  • Bently Drummle -  Class distinctions



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