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Motif Assignment: Find two examples and cite them for the following eleven motifs. Format for paper should be:

List 2 quotes with page number
Analysis

List 2 quotes with page number
Analysis

And so on . . .

¨1. Doubles such as: two convicts on the marsh, two invalids, two young women who interest Pip, two secret benefactors, and two adults who mold children after their own purposes.

¨2. Comparison of Characters to Inanimate Objects: Pumblechook=fish, Mrs. Joe’s face=nutmeg grater, Wemmick=letter box

3. Gothic Setting: Havisham's house

4. The Mists: on the marshes/when Pip leaves for London/when the convicts are around

5. Drummle or A.K.A "Spider:" a recurring annoyance for Pip.

6. Creep Crawlers: the spider community at Havisham's, beetles by the fire, mice behind the walls, etc.

7. Miss Havisham's Garden: symbolic of death, rotting things, hmm?

8. Locks and Keys: secrets/opportunities/control

9. Statues: Estella's cheek

10. Gloomy weather: EVERYWHERE! What does it symbolize?

11. Shadows: Orlick, Estella, mystery, etc.

¨Mist Motif Example

¨“We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me” (822).

¨Pretend there is another Quote Here

¨In the above excerpt from Great Expectations, the “mist motif” recurs yet again as Pip confronts a new beginning in his life. Ironically, it is the life he has fervently yearned for up to this point, yet Dickens astutely reminds the reader that, while Pip has dreampt of this moment—his opportunity to become a gentleman, he feels conflicted about leaving behind a place he can never forget is his true home.¨

Dickens ingeniously ties in the “mist motif” to symbolize the marsh country fading behind Pip, and his soon-to-be new life as a gentleman in London laying before him as evidenced in the following phrase: “the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.” 

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Ironically, while it seems as though Pip has nothing but clarity and success in his new path as the “mists have risen” so-to-speak, Dickens fogs readers’ minds yet again as Pip embarks on another disappointing journey, filled with convoluted mind games and heartache.