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Notes “I’ve made a gentleman out of you,” the man exclaims. Pip is horrified. All of his expectations
are demolished. There is no grand design by Miss Havisham to make Pip happy and rich,
living in harmonious marriage to Estella.
The convict tells Pip that he has come back to see him under threat of his life, since the law
will execute him if they find him in England. Pip is disgusted with him, but wants to protect
him and make sure he isn’t found and put to death. Herbert and Pip decide that Pip will try
and convince Magwitch to leave England with him.
Magwitch tells them the story of his life. From a very young age, he was alone and got into
trouble. In one of his brief stints actually out of jail, Magwitch met a young well-to-do gentleman
named Compeyson who had his hand in everything illegal: swindling, forgery, and other
white collar crime. Compeyson recruited Magwitch to do his dirty work and landed Magwitch
into trouble with the law. Magwitch hates the man. Herbert passes a note to Pip telling him
that Compeyson was the name of the man who left Miss Havisham on her wedding day.
Pip goes back to Satis House and finds Miss Havisham and Estella in the same banquet room.
Pip breaks down and confesses his love for Estella. Estella tells him straight that she is incapable
of love — she has warned him of as much before — and she will soon be married to Drummle.
Back in London, Wemmick tells Pip things he has learned from the prisoners at Newgate. Pip
is being watched, he says, and may be in some danger. As well, Compeyson has made his
presence known in London. Wemmick has already warned Herbert as well. Heeding the
warning, Herbert has hidden Magwitch in his fiancé Clara’s house.
Pip has dinner with Jaggers and Wemmick at Jaggers’ home. During the dinner, Pip finally
realizes the similarities between Estella and Jaggers’ servant woman. Jaggers’ servant woman
is Estella’s mother!

On their way home together, Wemmick tells the story of Jaggers’ servant woman. It was
Jaggers’ first big break-through case, the case that made him. He was defending this woman
in a case where she was accused of killing another woman by strangulation. The woman was
also said to have killed her own child, a girl, at about the same time as the murder.

Task Identify the basic plot twist in each of the three stages of Pip’s Great expectations.

Miss. Havisham asks Pip to come visit her. He finds her again sitting by the fire, but this time
she looks very lonely. Pip tells her how he was giving some of his money to help Herbert with
his future, but now must stop since he himself is no longer taking money from his benefactor.
Miss. Havisham wants to help, and she gives Pip nine hundred pounds to help Herbert out.
She then asks Pip for forgiveness. Pip tells her she is already forgiven and that he needs too
much forgiving himself not to be able to forgive others.

Notes Pip goes for a walk around the garden then comes back to find Miss Havisham on
fire! Pip puts the fire out, burning himself badly in the process. The doctors come
and announce that she will live.

Pip goes home and Herbert takes care of his burns. Herbert has been spending some time with
Magwitch at Clara’s and has been told the whole Magwitch story. Magwitch was the husband
of Jaggers’ servant woman, the Tigress. The woman had come to Magwitch on the day she
murdered the other woman and told him she was going to kill their child and that Magwitch

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