Chapter 2
Pip steals the pork pie and file — his original guilt, which haunts him.
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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 32
Wemmick's tour of Newgate — "my Greenhouse" — collapsing the distance between Pip's world and the prison.
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Jaggers's ritual hand-washing as emblem of bourgeois complicity with crime.
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