Great Expectations Symbolism, Imagery & Allegory

You will need a flashlight when visiting the world of Great Expectations. The novel is pretty much glued together by darkness. Even Pip’s apartment in London looks like it is weeping soot whe...

Mists, mists, mists. There is a lot of mist in this novel, namely on the marshes of Pip’s hometown. Mists are good for 1) getting things wet and 2) making it very difficult to see things. The...

So, we know that there is a lot of criminality in our novel (Check out the "Themes" section), and wherever there are crimes, there are criminals; and wherever there are criminals, there are jails;...

How to describe Miss Havisham’s garden in ten words or less? How about DEAD? Everything in it is either dead or deformed. The trees, vegetables, flowers, and pathways are all decaying. Whenev...

There are lots of creepy crawlies throughout Great Expectations. You may have noticed the spider community that lives in the twenty-five year old wedding cake in Miss Havisham’s dining room....

Whenever Pip kisses Estella’s cheek (and there are two occasions by our calculations), said cheek feels like that of statue. What are statues? They are representations of humans, animals, or...

Great Expectations Forecast: Monday – rainy and dark. Tuesday – rainy and windy. Wednesday – rainy and rainy. Thursday – stormy. Friday – misty (thick fog warning). Sa...

Shadows always abound when Estella is around. Whoa. We’re poets, and we didn’t know it. Pip often notices a shadow passing across Estella’s face. When she arrives in London for th...