How does the character of Magwitch change in the novel Great Expectations? Compare and contrast him with Macbeth

In your introduction paragraph, CONTRAST Great Expectations to Macbeth by stating the following

• When the novel was written• A brief summary of the story (max 2 sentences)• How a typical 19th Century reader would have reacted to the story• What was Dickens’ social purpose in writing the story?

1. Foreshadowing - when something hints at a later event in the novel

2. Pathetic Fallacy- When the weather reflects the character or their mood

3. Narrator- The person telling the story

4. Bildungsroman- a coming-of-age novel

5. Pathos- when the reader sympathises with a character-

6. Gentleman

7. Dramatic irony- when the reader knows more than one or more of the characters

8. Irony- when something has a hidden meaning opposite to the surface meaning/ an oddly contradictory situation

In your main paragraphs, include the following:

• Link to the previous paragraph (use connectives from the list in your planner to help you by saying how Magwitch is similar or different to before

• Make a point- briefly state how Macbeth behaves/ feels in the quotation and why

• Give evidence – this should be a quotation, normally about 2 lines long (one or two shorter ones are acceptable)

• Analyse the evidence (more details on next slide)

The analysis should be very detailed, as it is the section that gets you most marks.

You could include some of the following: • How is Magwich portrayed at this point? • How does the setting/ the weather etc reflect his

personality or the events in his life?• How Pip (the child/ the young man) reacts to

Magwich• How Pip (the narrator) sees Magwich • How the reader sees Magwich

• Magwich’s similarities or differences to other characters

• The way the themes/ motifs are presented

More stuff you COULD include in your analysis:

-Find examples of the following devices and comment on their effect(s):

MetaphorPathetic FallacyFairy story languageDramatic Irony

- Discuss how Magwitch as a character compares and contrasts with other ‘parent’ figures in the novel

- Discuss how Magwitch is an ambivalent influence on Pip

In your CONCLUSION:

1. Summarise the way in which Magwitch changes during the novel (do NOT simply say ‘he starts bad and ends good’: the characterisation of Magwich is FAR more subtle and nuanced than this)

2. What is Dickens telling the reader about Social Class? Parents and Children? Money? Human Nature? Life and Death? Does the reader learn anything

3. Summarise the way in which Macbeth changes during the play (again ‘he changes from ‘good’ to ‘bad’ is not deep enough)

4. What is Shakespeare telling the audience about Power? Ambition? Society? Human Nature? Life and Death? Does the audience learn anything?

5. How does Shakespeare’s portrayal of Macbeth compare/ contrast with Dickens’ portrayal of Magwitch? Are there any similarities/ differences?