Great Expectations: Skit Prep

Overall, I think that there could be many great places in the book to do skits off of. But these are the three that I think would be the best:

1.) When Miss Havisham's hair catches on fire and Pip saves her. This would be fun to do in class because it would involve one person screaming, another person saving her, and other people coming in to take care of the person that was caught on fire. It is very dramatic.
2.) When Pip and the search party go to find Pip's convict. This would also be fun to do in class because it takes a lot of people, and it is an action scene (Compeyson and Magwitch fighting). I think it would be fun to see the fake blows shared between the people who are portraying Magwitch and Compeyson.
3.) Thed dinner at Mr. Jagger's house with all of Pip's friends (Drummle, Herbert, Startop, etc.). This takes many character roles, and it would fun to do because of the commentary shared between the characters at dinner time.

Thanks for reading. Please comment about my ideas.

More Questions about Great Expectations

My question has to do with the new characters Compeyson and Arthur. In Chapter 42 on pages 348+349 it says that Arthur sees Miss Havisham in a vision and is deathly afraid of her. So deathly afraid, infact, that he ends up dying having a dream about her. My question: if compeyson is pressumably Miss Havisham's lover, and leaves her on the altar, why is Arthur so deathly afraid of her instaed of Compeyson?

Great Expectations: Question about a Passage

My question has to do with a quote in Chapter 33 on page 270. Pip says, "I should have been chary of discussing my gaurdian too freely even with her, but I should have gone on with the subject so far as to describe the dinner in Gerrard Street, if she had not then come into a sudden glare of gas. It seemed, while it lasted, to be all alight and alive with that inexplicable feeling I had had before; and when we were out of it, I was as much dazed for a few moments as if I had been in lightning." What is this gas and why is Pip so startled by it that it brings back his past feelings?

Great Expectations: Photo

I chose this photo because in the book, when Mr. Pumblechook finds out Pip is going to be a gentleman, he shakes Pip's hand a lot. Mr. Pumblechook only does this because he found at that Pip is going to become a gentlemen. This gesture signafies Pip's emergence into the land of gentlemen and the way people try to suck up to him when they find this out. This is important in the book because Pip is getting really snobby (character develpment) and it shows the way people treat men when they are gentlemen (plot).