Great Expectations

By the end you’ll be able to

• Trace Pip’s development through the novel’s three stages and analyse his ambition, snobbery, guilt and moral growth
• Analyse Miss Havisham, Estella, Joe, Magwitch, Jaggers and Herbert, and the novel’s ideas of gentility and social class
• Explore Dickens’s methods: first-person retrospective narration, the Gothic Satis House, symbolism (the stopped clocks and the wedding dress), and coincidence