Happenstance in Great Expectations

HAPPENSTANCE:

"chance or a chance situation, especially one producing a good result" (Cambridge University)

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"As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them" (Dickens 1).

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"His back towards me, and he had his arms folded, and was nodding forward, with heavy sleep. [….] so I went forward softly and touched him on the shoulder. He instantly jumped up, and it was not the same man, but another man!" (17).

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"and couldn't she ask Uncle Pumblechook if he knew of a boy to go play there?" (51).

"A fearful man, all in coarse grey, with a great iron on his leg. A man with no hat, and with broken shoes, and with an old rag tied round his head." (4).

"Everything in the room had stopped […] a long time ago, […] Miss Havisham put down the jewel exactly on the spot from which she had taken it up. [….] the shoe, […] once white, now yellow, had never been worn" (59).

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"the very first words I heard [the convicts] interchange as I became conscious were the words of my own thought, 'Two One Pound notes'" (226).

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"I stood opposite to Mr. Pocket, Jr. […] I saw the starting appearance come into his own eyes that I knew to be in mine. […] 'you,' said I, 'are the pale young gentleman!" (173).

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"The last man I should have expected to see in that place of porter at Miss Havisham's door. 'Orlick!'" (230)

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"the communication I have got to make is, that he has great expectations" (135).

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"But, Estella, do hear me speak. It makes me wretched that you should encourage a man so generally despised as Drummle" (306).

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"Mr. Jaggers [….] had nothing to do with it, and knew nothing of it. His being my lawyer, and his being the lawyer of your patron, is a coincidence" (355).

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"I relinquished the intention he had detected, for I knew him! […] I could not have known my convict more distinctly than I knew him now, as he sat in the chair before the fire" (311).

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"In the moment when I had left her and I saw her seated in the ragged chair upon the hearth close to the fire [….] In the moment when I was withdrawing my head to go quietly away I saw a great flaming light spring up. […] I saw her running at me, shrieking, with a whirl of fire blazing all about her" (397).

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"'It's my wedding-day,' cried Biddy, in a burst of happiness, 'and I am married to Joe!'" (472).

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"the man we have in hiding down the river, is

Estella's Father" (403).

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"Still in the same moment, I saw that face disclosed,

was the face of the other convict of long ago"

(439).

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Work Cited

Dickens, Charles. Cardwell, Margaret, ed. Great Expectations. New York: Oxford

University Press Inc, 1948. Print