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115 Cards in this Set
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What day does the novel start on?
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Christmas Eve
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The escaped criminal puts fear into little Pip by telling him his partner will do what to him?
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Rip out his liver and eat it
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What phrase used over and over has a double meaning- his sister raised him and his sister abused him?
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Brought up by hand
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"And, please, what is Hulks?"
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Prison
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When Pip returns with food, what surprises the convict?
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That Pip saw his partner
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Pip gives a specific reason for not telling Joe about what happened. What reason?
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He doesn't want Joe to look down on him
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In the chapter on reading we learn that Joe has composed a rhyming couplet. For what purpose or on what topic?
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To put on his father's grave stone
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What kind of building is right next door to Miss Havisham's house?
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brewery
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Pip says this after his encounter with Estella, "they had never troubled me before, but they troubled me now." What is talking about?
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His dirty hands
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At the end oof chapter eight, Pip has a terror-filled vision. What specifically does he see?
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That Miss Havisham was hanging herself
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What does Pip tell his sister and Pumblechook about Miss Havisham?
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She sat in a carriage, she fed veal to large dogs
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From whom does Pip first pursue his education?
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Biddy
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Who visits Miss Havisham on her birthday?
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Her relatives
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Miss Havisham tells Pip that they will do what with her body when she dies?
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Lay it on the dining room table
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Miss Havisham confirms that Pip willd o what as an adult?
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Be apprenticed to Joe
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Pip learns that Estella has left Satis House- to go where/why?
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To study in France
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Who is Orlick
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Joe's blacksmith partner
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What seems to be the weapon that hurt Mrs. Joe?
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shackles
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Pip takes a walk one Sunday with Bidddy- what does he confide in her?
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That he wants to be a gentleman to win Estella
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The theme of hypocrisy is illustrated when Mr. Trabb all of a sudden treats Pip very differently when he finds out he has money. Who is Mr. Trabb?
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The tailor
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Which best characterizes Pip's initial impression of London?
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Filthy and disgusting
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In London, Pip is taken to stay with Herbert Pocket, He turns out to be...who?
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The pale boy who Pip fought at the Satis House
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Herbert tells Pip the background story of Miss Havisham. What is his explanation of the bad feeling that exists between her and his father?
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He tried to warn her but she didn't listen to him.
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What does Pip find out about Estella?
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She was adopted but from whom is unknown to Herbert
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A stipulation of Pip's benefactor is that he always be called "Pip" who breaks this rule and renames Pip?
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Herbert Pocket
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Which is an image that is repeated to illustrates Matthew Pocket's frustration with his family
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he pulls out his hair
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Why in CH24, does Pip visit Jagger's office?
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To ask for spending money
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Wemmick's house is referred to as...
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the castle
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While visiting Jagger's house, what does Jagger bragginly reveal about his housekeeper?
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That her wrists have been through much indicating that she is strong
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Why does Joe visit Pip in London
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To tell him that Miss Havisham said Estella is home and wishes to see him
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Joe informs Pip that Wopsle has left the church because
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He is now an actor
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Who does Pip see on the coach that he takes on his trip to Miss Havisham's?
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The man from the tavern with the file
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Who is the new gatekeeper at Miss Havisham's?
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Orlick
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Wemmick advises Pip to collect what kind of .... property?
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Portable
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What does the audience do during the Wopsle's play that makes the situation ridculous
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They answer the actors back when they ask questions
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Waiting for Estella to arrive, Pip passes the time in..
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Prison
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Pip is concerned: his great expectations have caused him to accumulate what?
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Debt
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Who are the finches of the grove?
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A group of men who drink a lot- inspiring gentleman like pip that have a weekly dinner
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With whome does Pip make a secret plan to help Herbert?
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Drummle
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Of what does Jagger's inform Pip about the identity of Magwitch?
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He is his benefactor
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When Magwitch meets Herbert, he insists that HErbert...
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Swear on a Bible
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Where did Magwitch get the money that he gave to Pip?
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Shepherding
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In the context of his background story, Magwitch says he is enraged with Compeyson because Compeyson received a lighter sentence for the same crime. Why?
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Because Compeyson looks like more of a gentleman than MAgwitch
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When Pip returns from Satis he gets a note from Wemmick as he is entering the Temple. What does the note say?
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Don't go home
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When they hear they are being watched, where do Pip and Herbert hid Provis?
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With Clara
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Why does Pip start rowing--all the time?
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He wants it to seem like a normal routine when he escapes with MAgwitch
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Pip sees another Wopsle performance, after wich the actor informs Pip that he saw someone odd in the audience. Who?
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The other convict
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Miss Havisham agrees to give Pip the money for what purpose?
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To help Herbert
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It is revealed that Jaggers' servant with the strong wrists is who?
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Estella's mom
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Miss Havisham's prediction that she will be laid out on the dining room table comes true. Why?
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She was burned and Pip laid her on the table
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SEveral times in his conversation with Jaggers and Wemmick there is a reference to Pip's poor dreams. What dreams does this refer to?
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Loving Estella
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Pip receives a strange note that refers to Provis as Pip's
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uncle
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When Pip thinks he is about to die at the hands of Orlick, he says, "The death clsoe before me was terrible than death was the dread of...." What?
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Being misremembered
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A man can't help his.....
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feelings
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Who is the Matriarchal archetype?
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Miss Havisham
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What is the symbol of Earth mother, watery, formless, womb world
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marsh
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What is an offering of the Earth mother?
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cake
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what is a feminine symbol; it stands especially for male fear/anxiety of the earthy
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spider
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Who is the hero archetype
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Pip
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Journey of son to....and ...... with the mother
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separate and reconcile
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Where departure is identified with...
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romance
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And return means the hero comes to understand the implicit..... between woman as mother and woman as beloved
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identity
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Who is the goddess of love archetype?
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Estella
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As the beautiful object, and point of....with the dark, watery world, grotesque and in flux
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contrast
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What is the symbol of passage outside of dark Earth
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the gate
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Estella as...
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gate keeper
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Gate as symbol of..... formation
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metal
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Stars= the.... of beauty as means of separation from the warm maternal
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coldness
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Estella is a....
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star- spiteful and cold
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If Drummel is the spider, then his marriage to Estella represents his ability to do what Pip cannot-...... the opposition between matriarch and the beauty archetypes.
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overcome
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The Hut- domestic and close to earth
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Joe
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The tower- regal, masculine, lording over nature
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Satis House
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Miss Havisham has.... herself for the lord of the manor; she throws herseld on the fire in sacrifice
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sacrificed
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Between tower and hut opposition=....= reminiscent of male bonding work space attached to Satis it represents a masculine domain, and again we are given an image of Miss Havisham as sacrifice
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brewery
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What is the possibility of a feminine element withtin the tower structure discounted
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the ruined garden
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What represents the impossibility of reconciling tower & hut; the senile AGed is the powerless father/lord.
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Wemmick's castle
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What is a kind of male-bonding escape from the conflict
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apartment
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Pip is haunted by what symbol as the only interpretation of what it means to be housed in this world
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Prison
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What kind of archetype is absent in the story?
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Father
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The....or.... Archetype (Joe/Orlick)
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metalurgist or blacksmith
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Joe= the symbol of the .... man, .....the goddess from below, dirty, sooty from working the materials of earth and in distilling objects of .... from the earth, that please the.....
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loyal, serving, beauty, and goddess
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Fire= symbol of.... bonding; male attempts to understand and participate in the feminine
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male
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Joe understands and appreciates .... in a way Pip cannot
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Mrs. Joe
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A repeated symbol throughout is the man.... into the fire place as he thinks
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staring
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Pip unsuccessfully.... over the fire at Wemmicks
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cooks
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Orlick is the metallurgist in his most base form- cut losose from the.... Pip facing being..... = the ultimate moment of reconciling with the feminine
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Feminine and thrown into the fire
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Who represents the old man in the sea archetype?
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Magwitch
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....character who has learned to adapt to the ..../ formlessness
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Shapeshifter and water/womb
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In the beginning Abel comes out of the sea; speaks of being a....
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eel/frog
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Pip must try to ....as he changes form
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hold on
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The....Abel represents one male figure controlling another; from which Pip Releases and goes through a proccess of..... and possible ......
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shackled, guilt, and reconciliation
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Who came out of the marshes
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magwitch
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Water symbolism according to Pip
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Water has many different qualtities as does Pip
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What is this book about?
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identity change
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What do the tombstones represent?
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Death and watery-ness and confusion of Pip's parent's death
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Magwitch is related to what...
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water and the idea of shape shifting
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What does Pip have a choice of doing?
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Going to the lowest or rising to the highest
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Who does Dicken refer to thoroughout the book?
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Shakesphere
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Is Wopsle a commical character?
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yes
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Who's relationship is tied up with guilt?
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Pip and Joe
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Who does Pip try to erase?
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Joeq
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What is Pip's journey about?
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finding himself
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Two opposties of hearth and star are related to whom.
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Joe and Estella
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How is Estella like a star?
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She is pitiless and cold
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What is the rotting garden suppose to remind us of?
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Miss Havisham rotten away in her chair
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Whatdoes Dickens constantly compare Estella to?
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a star
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Who rises above the fire?
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Estella
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What is disrupting Pip's relationship with Joe?
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class
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Pip is running away from whom and running towards whom
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Joe and Estella and Miss Havisham
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Miss havisham is the what and who is taking her away
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cake and relatives
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Is water masculine?
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No, feminine
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Through biddy's eyes Pip can almost see what..?
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His future with biddy
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Who is a witch like character
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Miss Havisham
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What makes fun of Shakesphere?
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The national bard
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What is represented by the sails?
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holding onto something positive
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