Great Expectations – Jaggers, Wemmick and Minor Characters

A concise and professionally structured resource exploring how Jaggers, Wemmick and the novel’s supporting characters extend the moral, legal and social world of Great Expectations.

This resource provides focused analysis of Jaggers’s intimidating professional authority, Wemmick’s divided public and private identities, and the roles played by Biddy, Herbert, Drummle, Orlick, Molly, Trabb’s boy and the Aged Parent. It examines how Dickens uses these characters to test Pip’s values and explore law, class, money, secrecy, affection and moral worth.

Key features:

• Clear analysis of Jaggers as a figure of legal power, professional detachment and moral ambiguity
• Focus on Wemmick’s contrast between his mechanical office identity and affectionate life at Walworth
• Exploration of Biddy, Herbert, Drummle, Orlick, Molly, Trabb’s boy and the Aged Parent as influences on Pip’s moral education
• Activities to reinforce and practise key concepts, including retrieval, language analysis, character comparison, themes, writer’s methods, paragraph planning, creative diary writing and extended essay preparation
• Detailed answer key included for straightforward checking and review