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Great Expectations — Quotes

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1
PROGRESS

“I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place... I saw no shadow …”

AMBIGUOUS CLOSURE / LITOTESSPATIAL SYMBOLISM — 'THE RUINED PLACE'

Pip (narrator) · Chapter 59 (Final Chapter)

2
REGRESS

“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, agains…”

ANAPHORA / CUMULATIVE NEGATIONFIRST-PERSON RETROSPECTIVE IRONY

Pip (narrator) · Chapter 29

3
PROGRESS

“In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too c…”

CHIASMUS / SELF-ACCUSATIONMORAL PARALYSIS — KNOWING BUT NOT DOING

Pip (narrator) · Chapter 6

4
PROGRESS

“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching... I have been bent and brok…”

PARADOX / METAMORPHIC IMAGERYPASSIVE CONSTRUCTION — SUFFERED UPON

Estella · Chapter 59

5
REGRESS

“I have been informed by a person named Abel Magwitch, that he is the benefactor”

PERIPETEIA / NARRATIVE REVERSALIRONIC INVERSION — CONVICT AS CREATOR

Mr Jaggers (via Pip's narration) · Chapter 39

6
STAGNATE

“Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies”

PROVERBIAL AUTHORITY / SHUTTING DOWN ENQUIRYMICROCOSMIC TEXT — THE NOVEL IN MINIATURE

Mrs Joe / Joe Gargery · Chapter 2

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