- Pip dines with Jaggers; Estella is married; Pip understands Molly because the the woman mom; Wemmick informs regarding Molly’s demo
- Skip Havisham’s confession and you will repentance; Estella’s use; new flame; “I forgive their”
- Herbert informs out of Magwitch’s child; Pip knows Estella try their; Magwitch has said Pip. reminded your regarding their
- Pip gets currency to own Herbert; Jaggers shows you Estella’s use and advises he ensure that it stays wonders
- Herbert to go East; Startop so you’re able to line: Orlick’s mention (in Compeyson’s hands); Pip accused away from “ingratitude” to Pumblechook
- Orlick’s confession and attempted payback; Pip saved by Trabb’s kid and you may Herbert
- Magwitch’s eliminate thwarted; Compeyson drowned; Pip resigned to help you his benefactor, Magwitch
- Pip’s riches forfeit toward crown; Herbert offers employment; Old Barley perishing; Wemmick marries Miss Skiffins
- Magwitch convicted and you can sentenced; Pip tells him, just before his dying, of Estella
Layouts and you will themes
Pip is designed to become responsible if you are a young child, yet , provides genuine reason for guilt in the dealings having Magwitch. Pip seems shame during the their lowly origin and you will pride within his sudden boost in luck; he constantly contrasts the fresh new feminine females, Estella, to your disgusting felon (criminal), Magwitch, when you’re opportunity events (the two convicts towards the advisor, say) reinforce such as for example view. It is main so you can his comprehension of Magwitch’s very important god, along with his reconciliation having your, one Pip observes the typical humanity off Estella and her convict father. So you’re able to idealize Estella and you will demonize Magwitch can be regarded as an error from which Pip need repent. His welcome out-of Magwitch age in the their origins fuels their appeal to be an excellent “gentleman”, additionally the unique is very much on which tends to make a gentleman. Almost every other motifs (repeating images) arise outside of the novel’s means: the fresh river because the a good metaphor having peoples sense, together with mists and that come or was ascending in the certain things inside Pip’s tale.
Pip’s guilt
Dickens convincingly illustrates this new oppressive sense that shame is sit with the more youthful notice. Pip is many times told by his elders he lacks appreciation (for them that “lead him upwards manually”) and therefore the students try “naterally wicious”. The child senses the brand new injustice of such opinions it is refused possibility to conflict it, as well as Joe, just who truthfully notices (Chapter 57) you to definitely safeguarding Pip contributes to their rougher cures. When Magwitch forces Pip to steal about forge, Pip believes he’s guilty of a significant crime, it is incapable of confide in Joe, as he concerns (wrongly) that he loses Joe’s like. Magwitch’s “confession” with the thieves and you may Pumblechook’s ridiculous “explanation” of it next material Pip’s trouble. From the novel’s third part Pip, regarding mist, notices accusers throughout the phantom little finger-post while the clerical ox, throughout second chapter the guy notices how comments about the general wickedness off youth is actually geared towards your; while you are keenly aware, so far, his sister and you will Pumblechook do not have reasoning to accuse him out positivesingles of vice, he’s the amount of time a crime hence need at any moment be receive.
At this stage throughout the novel, the new reader’s disapproval of smug dining try healthy up against sympathy towards “worst wretches” toward marshes articulated from the Pip’s “pitying younger admiration” at the very least by Joe’s generosity to help you good “bad unhappy other-creatur”. Into a chilled evening (Chapter 7) Pip believes how terrible it will be to have men “sleeping from the fresh marshes” and viewing “zero let otherwise shame” regarding the famous people. Whenever Mrs. Joe prepares Pip having his stop by at city, the guy likens themselves to help you an effective “penitent from inside the sackcloth”, “trussed right up” and you will “introduced over” to Pumblechook, that is as compared to an effective sheriff.