Narrative Voice and Pip’s Development (HSC SSCE English Advanced): Flashcards
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Retrospective first-person narration in Great Expectations
Retrospective first-person narration in Great Expectations
Adult Pip looks back and recounts his childhood and youth
Dual perspective in the narrative
Dual perspective in the narrative
Young Pip's experience + adult Pip's reflective understanding
Dramatic irony created by narrative structure
Dramatic irony created by narrative structure
Reader/narrator understand what young Pip misinterprets
Free indirect discourse
Free indirect discourse
Technique blurring narrator's voice and character's thoughts
Bildungsroman structure
Bildungsroman structure
Coming-of-age narrative tracing moral/psychological development
Three stages of Pip's development
Three stages of Pip's development
Childhood innocence, London corruption, redemption/maturity
When Pip develops class shame
When Pip develops class shame
After visiting Satis House and meeting Estella
Victorian individualism critiqued in novel
Victorian individualism critiqued in novel
Belief that personal ambition should be paramount
Relational mirrors
Relational mirrors
Characters reflecting different aspects of Pip's character
Novel's central moral vision
Novel's central moral vision
True fulfilment from communal bonds & self-knowledge, not wealth