Monday, January 4, 2010
GE #6
“If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces--and as it gets older and stronger it will tear deeper--love her, love her!” (226). Dickens explores the theme of ambition. The major character who provides ambition for Pip is Miss Havisham--who is continuously telling Pip to love Estella, and asking him how beautiful Estella has grown. In this way Miss Havisham, whose only original motive was to get her revenge on men, provides a stepping stone for Pip--giving him desire for self-improvement. Dickens uses this ambition as a central theme throughout the novel, one that his audience can most likely relate to.
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huge typo in here .. twice
ReplyDeleteand how many times are you going to try to build up the ego of the books we read this year? I feel like I've written that comment a lot -- that last sentence really isn't saying much -- how can just focus on what Dickens is doing here .. and not trying to sell it as a great work of literature?