Great Expectations Skit Post

I think that the dialogue and proceeding action of Miss Havisham throwing herself in a fire (404) would be excellent to act out because it is not too boring and involves things that would be fun to act out. Another scene that would be fun to act out would be the beginning where Pip first meets the convict, this scene has a lot of action and I think would be entertaining to watch. A final scene

i would like to perform would be when Trabb's boy ridicules Pip, I like the scene and think it would be fun while it, like all of them, is important to the story and compares Pip to

Wopsle.

Another Great Expectation Question

The Question I have right now is: why is the other convict, Compeyson, trying to find Magwitch? Is he trying to seek revenge? This doesn't make sense because it was Magwitch who tried to stop him and he had tried to flee him, Magwitch even sacrificing his freedom to stop him from profiting. Maybe something happened in between theses time periods but it seems unlikely as he was sheep farming. If he is free again why would he want to find Magwitch?

Question about a passage

The question I have was brought up by this passage on page 270, "I should have been chary of discussing my guardian too freely, even with her, but I should have gone on with the subject so far as to describe the dinner in Gerrard Street, if she had not then come into a sudden glare of gas. It seemed, while it lasted, to be all alight and alive with that inexplicable feeling I had had before; and when we were out of it, i was as much dazed for a few moments as if i had been in lightning." Firstly, I don't understand what is going on, it seems as though she farted but that seems against her character and Pip's reaction "as if i had been in lightning" doesn't seem like a reaction to a fart. More importantly though I don't understand if this was supposed to have relevance on their relationship, Pip being caught before he said too much of his guardian and realizing how he is unable to control himself in front of her. It seems very out of place.

Great Expectations: Photo Post

I chose a picture of a wooden signpost because the signpost in the story is the object that Pip touches as he leaves his home and all that he's ever known. He never cried before about his coming trip to London or his leaving of Joe and Biddy, but as he's walking alone and he finally realizes all that he's giving up he stops by a wooden signpost and finally cries and feels his emotions about going somewhere new with a possibility of never returning. He may have always wanted to leave but he realizes the good things about his life just as he loses it all. The signpost represents his leaving and his accepting of that fact. The signpost is the place and the thing to which he reveals his true emotions.