Pip is told to return in six days, and is then brought outside to be fed like a dog. Pip is hurt and vents his fury by kicking a wall and pulling at his hair.
As he wanders through a brewery on the grounds, Pip imagines he sees Miss Havisham hanging from a beam and runs in terror. Estella shoves him out the gate and sends him on his way. His sister wants to know everything that happened and when he does not answer, pounds him on the head and shoves his face into the wall.
Pumblechook comes by and adds to the pressure. Pip does not feel they will understand even if he tells them what he saw, and he does not want to expose Miss Havisham to their criticisms. Finally, he makes up lies about black coaches, cake and wine on gold plates, and waving flags and swords. Later, Pip tells Joe the story was all lies and that he feels coarse and common.
Joe tells Pip lies just do not work and to think about that during his night prayers. Instead, Pip thinks about Joe's commonness and on what a memorable day it has been for him. Humor, satire, crisp descriptions, and tension are strong elements in these chapters. Dickens satirizes the educational system with the doddering great-aunt sleeping through her class. He criticizes child labor and the way families use their children to support them, by showing Pip's sister putting him to work and keeping the money, and then sending him to Miss Havisham's in the hope of some financial gain.
Dickens' own mother preferred him to work rather than send him to school. He satirizes the merchant class when Pip observes that Pumblechook conducts business by watching the sadler, who watches the coachmaker, who watches the baker, who watches the grocer, who watches the watchmaker, who is working. Pip concludes that the watchmaker is the only one actually engaged in his trade. Ghofrane Essaied.
Download PDF. A short summary of this paper. He developed a critical vision of his society, and in this regard, his adoption of a comic tone in some of his novels allowed him to unveil social injustices. The parody of the evening school of Mr. In chapter 7, Pip presents a synopsis of the educational scheme established by the great-aunt. His comic description imparts the meaningless and futility of these courses. Likewise, he presents a comic scene in chapter 10 reflecting the chaos pervading in the evening school upon the neglect of the aunt.
This scene is rather a burlesque, as the practices depicted bear no resemblance to any formal educational frame. Indeed, he aims at dramatizing the neglect to which lower-classes are subject in England. As a result of the government turning a blind eye to their needs, this impoverished class resorted to volunteer work.
Thus, the comic account of Mr. Upon realizing the futility of the evening school courses, Pip asks Biddy for help. This description, though seems comic, reflects the bleak prospect of this child having no access to proper educational material.
Indeed, in his eagerness to acquire knowledge, he abandons his critical vision that he has developed with regards to the evening school and hence falls short of questioning the value of these materials. It is only when he moves to London that he fully realises that he had only an illusion of education during his childhood. Indeed, he develops awareness of education as a means of social rise. New User? First Name. Last Name. Email Address. Opt-in to important GradeSaver updates!
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