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Digvijay Pandya, Lovely Professional University Unit 14: Great Expectations: Detailed Study of Text-III

Unit 14: Great Expectations: Notes

Detailed Study of Text-III

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction
14.1 Part III, Chapters 1–10 (40–49)
14.2 Part III, Chapters 11–20 (50–59)
14.3 Summary

14.4 Keywords
14.5 Review Questions
14.6 Further Readings

Objectives

After studying this unit, you will be able to:
• Explain Great Expectations detailed study of text part III all chapters
• Discuss analysis of part III all chapters.

Introduction

Pip decides that he cannot keep Magwitch in the apartment-his housekeepers will discover
him, especially if he in any way seems to have a secret. He decides to introduce Magwitch as
his uncle from the country. He goes downstairs to summon the watchman, but falls over
someone crouching on the stairs. Pip hurries to the watchman, who cannot imagine who could
have been on the stairs. He asks if Pip saw the man who was looking for him. He is then
confident Pip saw the man with his ‘uncle’, but Pip did not. The watchman cannot give any
better description, except that the other person seemed working class. Pip is excessively worried
that the two events, either of which could be dismissed, are connected.
Pip dozes until daylight. When he awakes he is quite incapable of being able to decide what
to do. He informs his housekeeper of the arrival of his uncle. When Magwitch awakes, Pip
tells him his fabrication to date. Magwitch tells him that he used the name Provis aboard ship,
but his full name is Abel Magwitch.

Did u know? Pip tries to discover who the man was, without awaking Magwitch’s fear,
but he cannot. Magwitch, who was tried in London, might have been known
that way. He refuses to reveal what he was tried for, as he has served his
time.
Even so, he decides to revisit the lot where Satis House stood, for Estella’s sake. She was
treated badly by her husband, who eventually died when a horse turned upon him. Pip has
heard nothing of her since. He walks around the grounds in the moonlight, and sees another
walker, a woman, who cries his name-Estella.

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