Cards (7)

    • “wisest of girls”
      superlative - Biddy acts as a didactic moral guide to Pip
    • “do you want to be a gentleman to spite her or to win her over?”

      thoughtful interrogative - Biddy acts as Pip’s moral compass
    • “O, I wouldn’t if i was you!”

      exclamation - Biddy’s antithetical approach to social mobility, she is aware of the lack of correlation between wealth and moral compass
    • “don’t you think you are happier as you are?”

      interrogative foreshadows Pip’s renouncement of his family post social mobility
    • “comfortable hand, roughened by work”
      Dickens uses a motif of hands to indicate social class
    • “her hair always wanted brushing, her hands always wanted washing”
      Biddy acts as a foil to Estella’s pristine beauty
    • “very pretty and very good” vs “very pretty and very proud”

      Biddy parallels Estella, mirroring how Pip constantly compares the two because he is unsatisfied with Biddy