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38 Cards in this Set
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Pip |
Pip begins the story as a young orphan boy being raised by his sister and brother-in-law in the marsh country of Kent, in the southeast of England. Pip is passionate, romantic, and somewhat unrealistic at heart, and he tends to expect more for himself than is reasonable. Pip also has a powerful conscience, and he deeply wants to improve himself, both morally and socially. |
protagonist; narrator |
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Mrs Joe |
Pip’s sister and Joe’s wife, known only as “Mrs. Joe” throughout the novel. Mrs. Joe is a stern and overbearing figure to both Pip and Joe. She keeps a spotless household and frequently menaces her husband and her brother with her cane, which she calls “Tickler.” She also forces them to drink a foul-tasting concoction called tar-water. Mrs. Joe is petty and ambitious; her fondest wish is to be something more than what she is, the wife of the village blacksmith. |
Wife of Joe |
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Joe |
Pip’s brother-in-law, the village blacksmith, Joe stays with his overbearing, abusive wife—known as Mrs. Joe—solely out of love for Pip. Joe’s quiet goodness makes him one of the few completely sympathetic characters. Although he is uneducated and unrefined, he consistently acts for the benefit of those he loves and suffers in silence when Pip treats him coldly. |
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Uncle Pumblechook |
Pip’s pompous, arrogant uncle. Pip’s “uncle-in-law,”. A merchant obsessed with money, Pumblechook is responsible for arranging Pip’s first meeting with Miss Havisham. Throughout the rest of the novel, he will shamelessly take credit for Pip’s rise in social status, even though he has nothing to do with it, since Magwitch, not Miss Havisham, is Pip’s secret benefactor. |
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Estella |
Miss Havisham’s beautiful young ward, Estella is Pip’s unattainable dream throughout the novel. He loves her passionately, but, though she sometimes seems to consider him a friend, she is usually cold, cruel, and uninterested in him. As they grow up together, she repeatedly warns him that she has no heart. |
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Miss Havisham |
Miss Havisham is the wealthy, eccentric old woman who lives in a manor called Satis House near Pip’s village. She is manic and often seems insane, flitting around her house in a faded wedding dress, keeping a decaying feast on her table, and surrounding herself with clocks stopped at twenty minutes to nine. As a young woman, Miss Havisham was jilted by her fiancé minutes before her wedding, and now she has a vendetta against all men. She deliberately raises Estella to be the tool of her revenge, training her beautiful ward to break men’s hearts. |
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Biddy |
A simple, kindhearted country girl, Biddy first befriends Pip when they attend school together. After Mrs. Joe is attacked and becomes an invalid, Biddy moves into Pip’s home to care for her. Throughout most of the novel, Biddy represents the opposite of Estella; she is plain, kind, moral, and of Pip’s own social class. |
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Mr. Wopsle |
The church clerk in Pip’s country town; Mr. Wopsle’s aunt is the local schoolteacher. Sometime after Pip becomes a gentleman, Mr. Wopsle moves to London and becomes an actor. |
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Orlick |
The day laborer in Joe’s forge, Orlick is a slouching, oafish embodiment of evil. He is malicious and shrewd, hurting people simply because he enjoys it. He is responsible for the attack on Mrs. Joe, and he later almost succeeds in his attempt to murder Pip. |
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Matthew Pocket |
Herbert's father and Pip's tutor. He is intellectual, but ineffectual in controlling his wife or household. He is Miss Havisham's relative but is not interested in her money. |
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2nd Convict (Compeyson) |
A smooth-talking upper-class criminal arrested for forgery with Magwitch. Before that, he jilted Miss Havisham and swindled money from her. He is the second convict on the marshes that Pip sees — Magwitch's sworn enemy. He later betrays Magwitch to the authorities and drowns in a struggle with him. |
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Stranger Three Jolly Bargeman |
A released convict who knows Magwitch from prison and delivers the two one-pound notes to Pip in the Jolly Bargemen on behalf of Magwitch. He has the file that Pip stole for Magwitch years before, and he uses it to identify himself as Magwitch's messenger. |
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Pale Young Gentlemen |
(Herbert Pocket) Pip first meets him at Miss Havisham's when the two have a fistfight. They later live together in London and become best friends. Herbert is kind, unassuming, and loyal to Pip. |
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Pip's Convict |
Fearful man, all in coarse gray, great iron on his leg, broken shoes and no hat. Rag tied around his head and soaked in water and mud. Pip first met him in the graveyard and had to steal food from the old battery |
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Camilla |
Relative of Miss Havisham waiting to inherit her money. See's Pip as a threat. |
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Raymond |
Cousin of Miss Havisham. Waiting to inherit her money. See's Pip as a threat |
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Sarah Pocket |
Relative of Miss Havisham. Waiting to inherit her money. See's Pip as a threat |
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Mr. Hubble |
Friends of Mr. and Mrs. Gargery. He is the town wheelwright, a person who builds and repairs wagon wheels. |
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Mr. Wopsle's great aunt |
The old woman who holds night classes for the village children and sleeps through the classes. Biddy is her granddaughter. |
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Satis House |
Miss Havisham's house, old brick, and dismal, many great iron bars. "Enough House" |
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Clicking in throats |
Pip’s convict makes a clicking sound as he is being taken away by the sergeant |
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tickler |
Mrs. Joe’s cane that she uses to beat Pip and Joe |
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"Seven times nine, boy?" |
Miss Havisham |
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25 Guineas |
(currency) Miss Havisham gives Pip 25 Guineas |
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Old Clem |
Joe use to hum this song as a burden |
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the battery |
the plave where the convict told Pip to go steal the wittles for him. (bank of earth on which large guns are mounted) |
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hulks |
the prison ships where the convicts escaped |
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twenty minutes to nine |
Miss Havisham was left by her groom at the altar minutes before the wedding started |
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tar water |
fine medicine, Mrs. Joe always kept a supply in her cupboard makes Joe and Pip drink it |
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Wittles |
the food the convict wanted Pip to get from the battery |
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Come here! You may kiss me if you like |
Estella |
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shilling wrapped in 2 one-pound note |
the stranger gives Pip a shilling. When they get home, Pip’s sister unwraps the package the shilling is in, expecting it to be counterfeit. Not only is it genuine, it is wrapped in two one pound notes. |
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the Three Jolley Bargeman |
The Bargemen is a bar in Pip's village that serves as a meeting place--important news and characters are often discovered here. |
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I think she is very pretty. I think she is very insulting |
Pip |
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I've been among a many Bolters; but I never see your bolting equal yet, and it's a mercy you ain't Bolted dead |
Joe |
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You're a foul shrew, Mother Gargery |
Orlick |
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break their hearts, my pride and hope, break their hearts and have no mercy! |
Miss Havisham |
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i am afraid I was ashamed of the dear good fellow |
Pip |
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