This week, we continue our discussion of Great Expectations by looking at different kinds of life in London, the death of Pip’s sister, and the ease of making choices when you have no choice at all.

Next week, chapters 36 to 50 of Great Expectations!

Footnotes:

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• Great Expectations
  
  
• Charles Dickens
  
  
• The Dying Gaul
  
  
• Semayne’s Case
  
  
• Castle Doctrine
  
  
• Severance
  
  
• The Factory Acts
  
  
• The Life Of Charles Dickens (John Forster)
  
  
• “A Word, Please: What, exactly, is a declarative question?”
  
  
• Great Expectations (1998)
  
  
• Great Expectations (2012)
  

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