Great Expectations Skit

For the skit I think that I would want the fight scene where the pale young gentleman challenges Pip. This part shows Herbert and Pip's first meeting and ties well with the other parts of the story. It would also be an entertaining part of the book to watch. The second skit I would like to see done would be when Mr Jaggers first meets Pip and Joe in the bar and tell him of the great property he is going to come into. It is the real beginning of all his changes and foreshadows the rest of the book. the third scene I would like to see done would be at Mr. Jagger's house with all of Pip's friends all having dinner. It has a lot of characters in it, and would fun to do and watch because of the dialogue between them.

Great Expectaions question 2

""so," said Estella, "I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me."

I understood that she was talking about how Miss Havisham had made her a mean cold person but I do not understand what was meant about the success and failure. Is it the success and failure of Estella or is it how Miss Havisham wants her to break hearts as the success and the failure of the Estella's coldness towards Miss Havisham?

Great Expectations Quote

On page 225 chapter 28 part of Pip's thinking had me confused.

"That i should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make as good money!"

I don't understand the language that is used here and what the meaning of it is.

Great Expectations Photo

This photo represents the two path ways Pip has to choose from. He can either fight the up hill battle to become a gentleman to impress Estella and follow that dream of his or go through with being a blacksmith with Joe. Choosing to be a gentleman would be going against everything in society that says he is a common boy and will not be easy for him. This is shown from the arrow pointing the down when all Pip wants is to be up with the higher classes people. On the other hand if he goes through with being a blacksmith he will have the hard ship of being common and not having Estella's attention or approval that he so desperately wants. The tumbling rocks sign represents Pips own personal conflict of not being able to be with Estella.