Great Expectations
What are the subplots of Great Expectations?
For my English homework, I am trying to figure out all of the subplots of Great Expectations (by Charles Dickens) and to see if I’ve missed any. If you can list all of the ones you can think of, it would be greatly appreciated.
This novel is one huge web in which one plot is related to another. The subplots:
1. Herbert’s success as a businessman in shipping/Pip is Herbert’s fairy godfather and eventually Herbert must bail Pip out and make him a clerk.
2. Provis (or Magwitch) connection not just as Pip’s benefactor but how Magwitch relates to Molly and to Estella.
3. Jagger’s connections to Miss Havisham and Estella
4. Molly’s little murder of the big girl in the barn because of the two women’s jealous rage over Magwitch.
5. Miss Havisham’s connection to the other convict Compeyson; Compeyson’s connection to Havisham’s brother Arthur; Compeyson connection to Magwitch and how he set Magwitch up for all the blame in the conartist game they had going on.
6. Orlick’s little mysteries of injuring Mrs. Joe, gossiping about Pip with Drummel, kidnapping Pip and trying to murder him; befriending Compeyson to help Compeyson get Provis; and earlier trying to attract Biddy’s affections and working at Miss Havisham’s.
7. Dumb old Drummel’s bullying to the point of marrying Estella and beating her.
8. The Pockets-Georgianna, Raymond, Sarah, all trying to get Havisham’s money, being jealous of Pip because they add to the inference that Pip’s benefactor is Miss Havisham (she’s not). They are all vulchars and get very little in the end.
9. The plot back home in the marshes- Mrs. Joe’s funeral with the Trabb funeral production; Big Mouth Pumblechook’s bragging about being Pip’s benefactor, his being robbed by Orlick, his drinking at the Christmas party, his showing off at the Blue Boar; Biddy becoming a teacher and she and Joe marrying and having two children; Trabb’s boy turning nicer than Orlick-especially if he’s paid; the wonderful humorous church clerk who drops security and lives his expectations of an actor- a poor actor but an actor and cleans up the mystery of who is following Pip-stage name was Waldengraver (I think).Magwitch’s escape-
11. Herbert’s courting of Clara, the direct opposite of his mother Belinda Pocket.
12. The Fairy Land of Wemmick’s castle-how Wemmick leaves work with Jaggers in Little Briton and lives in the whimsical castle with The Aged, has wild inventions for the Aged, courts and eventually marries Miss Skiffins;
13. The Other Wemmick who suffers through dinner at Jaggers; visits his “plants” in his “garden” (Newgate Prison); learns information at Newgate to help Pip; always looking for portable property.
14. Miss Havisham’s Life of Decay and Revenge-how she got jilted at the alter; why she created Estellla to have no heart; how she was connected to Jaggers; the fire in which she and Pip are injured; how she gives money to Pip for Herbert and how she honors Pip by helping Matthew Pocket.
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