Guilt, Crime, and Complicity

From Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Pip is implicated in crime from the first chapter (stealing for Magwitch) onward; the novel insistently links respectable society to the prison and the gallows.
Chapter 2

Pip steals the pork pie and file — his original guilt, which haunts him.

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Chapter 32

Wemmick's tour of Newgate — "my Greenhouse" — collapsing the distance between Pip's world and the prison.

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Chapter 20

Jaggers's ritual hand-washing as emblem of bourgeois complicity with crime.

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