AQA GCSE English Literature · 8702
Paper 1
A person who provides money or other support to someone. Abel Magwitch is Pip’s secret benefactor.
Revise: Plot overviewJaggers, a London lawyer, announces that an unnamed benefactor will provide for Pip’s education and maintenance, with a substantial property to come. Pip must retain his name and must not investigate the benefactor’s identity. He immediately assumes that Miss Havisham is responsible.
- Revise: Chapters 10 to 19
A person who provides financial support or another benefit. The identity of Pip’s benefactor must remain secret under Jaggers’s conditions.
- Revise: Chapters 30 to 39
A person who provides financial help to someone else. In Great Expectations, Magwitch is the benefactor who secretly finances Pip’s gentlemanly life.
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- Revise: Chapters 40 to 49
A person who provides money or other support to help someone. In Great Expectations, Magwitch is Pip’s secret benefactor.
- Revise: Magwitch
A person who provides money or other help to someone. Magwitch secretly finances Pip’s life as a gentleman.
- Revise: Herbert Pocket
A person who provides help, especially financial support, to another person.