Characteristics

As part of the directed task this week we were given various characteristics and told to pick out 5 that fit in with our understanding of the text so far. It was pretty difficult to narrow it down but here are my words listed below.

• Gloomy conditions - cold, damp, fog, storms
• Mystery and suspense
• Unrequited love
• Fantasizing, dreaming, reveries
• Suffering

These words seemed to link in best to how i understand the story. I imagine gloomy conditions a lot throughout the book but particularly when Pip first meets Magwitch which sets the scene for the story. There's mystery and suspense from the start and i felt on edge quite a lot of the time when reading the book and watching the remakes. We see a one sided love when Pip meets Estella, even though we get a sense that she returns his feelings they are rejected over and over until the end where they meet again. Pip fantasizes of being a Gentleman and Estella's wife pretty much from the day he met her and when he thinks Miss Havisham has given him a golden ticket into the life he wants to lead he's left disappointed, suffering with the job he doesn't want to be in and with the thoughts of maybe never seeing Estella again.