Key quotations — Great Expectations — OCR GCSE English Literature J352
OCR GCSE English Literature · J352
Key quotations
Key quotations
What you need to know
The essential quotations from Great Expectations, grouped by character and by theme, each with what it means and how to analyse it.
A table of 30 to 40 key quotations by character and theme, each with its speaker, place and a one-line note, for testing yourself.
Including 'the small bundle of shivers growing afraid of it all and beginning to cry, was Pip', 'And what coarse hands he has! And what thick boots!', 'It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home', 'no man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world began, a true gentleman in manner', 'Love her, love her, love her!', 'I am what you have made me', 'I've made a gentleman on you!', 'You are part of my existence, part of myself', 'What have I done! What have I done!', 'I only saw in him a much better man than I had been to Joe', 'O Lord, be merciful to him a sinner!' and 'I have been bent and broken, but—I hope—into a better shape'.
OCR's question on this novel is one essay, from a choice of two, for 40 marks: an extract-based question on the printed extract and the novel elsewhere, or a discursive question on a view of the novel, using at least two moments. Response (AO1) and language, form and structure (AO2) carry the most weight and equal weight, context (AO3) counts when it is relevant to the question, and 4 marks are for vocabulary, sentence structures, spelling and punctuation (AO4). An extract-based answer that never leaves the extract, or a discursive answer built on one moment, cannot go above Level 3. Each worked paragraph and exam tip is labelled with the question it is for.
