Answer for exercise 3
The solution for exercise 3 in chapter 7.4 - Great expectations of Speakout Advanced Plus - Students' Book by Frances Eales and Steve Oakes
Question
- Check what you remember. Complete Miss Havisham's comments and questions.
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- What, if anything, do you learn about Miss Havisham's personality and preoccupations from the comments in Exercise 3A?
Answer
a)
- reaches; specimen; stuck
- pursuit; revenge
- destroyer
- heartbeat
- meant; extraordinary
b)
- 1 and 2 are very violent images about beauty, destruction and revenge. This could show that something has happened to Miss Havisham which has stuck a pin through her heart and killed something inside her. It could show that she feels strongly about the theme of revenge. Perhaps there is something or someone she wants revenge against.
- 3 Straight after Miss Havisham says this, we have an image of Estella, the beauty. Could this Indicate that Estella is to destroy Pip?
- 4 Another theme - the pivotal moment when everything changes. Did this happen to Miss Havisham? Is this going to happen to Pip? The way he looks at Estella suggests so.
- 5 She seems to be planting an idea in Pip's head and also linking his destiny in some way with Estella's.