Great Expectations

Pip to Magwitch - Pip is kind-hearted and looks past the fact that this man is a convict. He cares for him because he needs help

'I'm glad you enjoyed it'

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Pip about Magwitch - Pip understands that he was a bad person to Joe and not sufficiently grateful towards him

I only saw in him a much better man than I had been to Joe

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Pip - Estella has made Pip feel ashamed of himself and very insecure

I had never thought of being ashamed of my hands before

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Pip - Pip embarrassment of his home only grows throughout the book until the end when he realsies he needs his family and close friends

It is the most miserable thing to be ashamed of home

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Pip about Estella - with hindsight, Pip can see his actions towards Estella are foolish and will only cause him torment

I know of the pain she cost me afterwards

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Pip after kissing Estella - kissing her makes him feel worse, he feels as if he's a charity case

I felt that the kiss was given to the coarse common boy as a piece of money

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Pip to Biddy - Pip admits he wants to become a gentleman for Estella and because of what she's said to him

'I admire her dreadfully and want to become a gentleman on her account'

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Havisham - Havisham uses Estella as her revenge puppet

'I sometimes have sick fancies'

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Havisham about Estella - Havisham raised Estella to have a cold, cruel heart

'I stole her heart away and put ice in its place'

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Pip about Havisham - Havisham got malicious pleasure from the way she controlled Estella to 'break' men's hearts

Malignant enjoyment

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Havisham to Estella - Havisham wants Estella to make men feel as heartbroken as she did when she was jilted at the altar by Compeyson

'Break his heart!'

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Havisham about Estella - she realsies on her deathbed that she's been an awful parent to Estella. She sees that it's an unrepairable thing - she's shaped Estella into a cold hearted woman who cannot love.

She cried despairingly. 'What have I done?'

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Pip about Joe - Estella has not only made Pip self-conscious but also conscious about his family, this is the beginning of his embarrassment of Joe

Estella would consider Joe a mere blacksmith

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Joe to Pip - Dickens shows Joe's rural accent and dialect through the spelling of things Joe says

'Your elth's your elth'

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Pip about Joe - Joe is used as a reminder of what Pip could've become if he hadn't followed his dream of becoming a gentleman. This creates a strong contrast between the two characters.

He was a mild, good-natured, sweet-tempered, easy-going, foolish, dear fellow

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Joe to Pip - they are companions for the first section of the novel which emphasises how much Pip changes in the middle half of the play because he is so embarrassed of his old friend he can't face visiting him.

'Ever the best if friends, ain't us Pip'

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Joe to Pip - Joe is keen for Pip to make his way in the world, this shows how kind Joe is as in becoming a gentleman Joe knows Pip will have to leave the forge but he still supports Pip's decisions

'If you can't get to being oncommon through going straight, you'll never get it through going crooked'

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Estella to Pip - she knows she cannot love as she has been raised to hate. Dickens does this so that the reader doesn't despise Estella for being cruel, they understand her actions of malevolence and feel bad for her.

'I have no heart... no sympathy - sentiment - nonsense'

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Estella to Havisham - she is the product of Miss Havisham's pain and need for revenge

'I am what you have made me'

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Estella to Pip when he professes his love for her - she understands the words but not the emotion of love.

'as a form of words'

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Estella to Pip - Havisham has taught Estella to be this way - irresistible but out of reach

'Come here! You may kiss me if you like' 'Am I pretty'

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Estella to Pip - she understands she has been controlled by Miss H for the majority of her life and is trying to become her own woman.

'I have been bent and broke but -I hope- into a better shape'

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Estella to Havisham - she calls Pip 'boy' continually even though they are similar in age, this belittles Pip and makes him feel worthless. She is contemptuous to Pip throughout the novel.

'Why he is a common labouring boy!'

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Pip about Estella - the more Pip fantasises about Estella, the more unattainable she becomes because she 'cannot love' however this does not stop Pip's growing love for her

'She was so much more beautiful'

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Havisham to Estella - the 'no mercy' reffers to the way Compeyson carelessly and coldly jilted Havisham years ago.

'Break their hearts and have no mercy'

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