Friday, March 26, 2010

Great Expectations Skit Ideas

  • In Chapter 49 when Miss Havisham is sitting by the fire and catches her old wedding dress on fire and Pip uses his greatcoat to try to put the fire out and ends up burning his hands.
  • I personally liked the scene in Chapter 54 when Compeyson and Abel are thrown overboard together but Abel ends up getting away. I'm not sure how this would be acted out, I just thought it would be interesting to see what ideas people came up with.
  • I also thought the scene when Pip is being held captive by Old Orlick in the dark and empty sluice house when Orlick is threatening to kill him for revenge and to burn him in the limekiln so that there would be no evadence or remains of Pip's body so no one would suspect a thing of Orlick.

Friday, March 19, 2010

Another Question

So after finding out that Abel Magwitch is Pip's benefactor I became confused as to why Abel decided to help Pip out and what specifically he was trying to do for Pip in Ch. 40. I'm pretty sure I understand why he's trying to help Pip, because he's trying to repay Pip for helping him when Pip was a lot younger. But what I don't get is whether he's just trying to provide money for Pip or if his intentions for Pip's benefits are bigger and having a wider meaning behind them. Like if he also wants Pip to grow in maturity or if he just wants to provide support financially so that he can be moved to a higher class in his social status.

Friday, March 12, 2010

Great Expectations: Question

Okay, so I'm not sure if I misinterpreted what was going on in this passage but i really have no clue what's going on. On page 262 through page 263 in chapter 30 Pip continues to see Trabb's boy wherever he goes. "I had not advanced another two hundred yards, when, to my inexpressible terror, amazement, and indignation, I again beheld Trabb's boy approaching... With a shock he became aware of me, and was severely visited as before; but this time his motion was rotatory, and he staggered round and round me with knees more afflicted, and with uplifted hands as if beseeching my mercy."

This passage really confused me. I'm not sure really what happened or whether I just missed something important that happened while reading. My question is why Trabb's boy is acting so strange and if this is actually happening or is Pip just imaging things like he did earlier in the book when he saw Miss Havisham hanging?

Friday, March 5, 2010

Great Expectations Picture Representation


This picture represents how Pip is leaving his home to go live in London where he will recieve his new fortune and will become more gentleman like. but with leaving his home comes leaving everything else behind as well. the swings represent Pip's childhood and him leaving means him loosing and leaving his childish ways behind. As he moves on to become a different, more educated, and mature man everything else fades as the new doors to a whole new world are opened for Pip to explore.