LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY (18TH 19TH) CENTURIES
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inheriting his father’s fortune.
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hard work as a blacksmith.
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saving the life of a rich heiress.
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through the wealth of a convict he once helped.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Jaggers tells Pip it’s a lost cause. Once a witness is found who can confirm that Magwitch is in fact Magwitch, he will be sentenced to death. Jaggers scolds Pip for not hanging onto his fortune. Now, Magwitch’s money will go directly to the government.
Detailed explanation-2: -His road back to grace starts when Magwitch reveals himself as the source of Pip’s rise in social stature.
Detailed explanation-3: -Pip is immature, kind, and ambitious throughout parts of Great Expectations. After Pip is orphaned as a child, he grows up with his sister and her husband. Pip never feels comfortable with himself and when he mingles among the wealthy, he decides that a life of privilege would be more beneficial to him.
Detailed explanation-4: -Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations tells the story of Pip, an English orphan who rises to wealth, deserts his true friends, and becomes humbled by his own arrogance. It also introduces one of the more colorful characters in literature: Miss Havisham.