There is one aspect of Pip's visit to Mr. Jaggers house which I don't understand. When he went to dine with Mr. Jaggers, he told Molly to show her wrists. "Molly, let them see your wrists...The last wrist was much disfigured-deeply scarred and scarred across and across."(228)Chapter 26. I don't know why Mr. Jaggers would want to show everyone Molly's wrists so badly.
The question I have is: Why does Molly refuse so much to show her wrists(and also why Mr. Jaggers wants her to show), and what is it trying to point out? My interpretation is that Mr. Jaggers wanted them to see what Molly went through in her child-hood or past life, to get where she is now.
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This is a very interesting question. Personally I believe you are on the right track with your initial interpretation of this. One thing I would like to make a guess about is her wrists could be very strong because she used to be a slave or a convict and had shackles tied to her wrists. Maybe Jaggers is trying to point this out because he knows something the children donesn't know that will relate to this later on. I feel that this very well could be the author trying to expose to us some foreshadowing that is very hard to decifer.
ReplyDeleteI think that it could be that those scars were from mr.Jaggers when he would beat her when she did something wrong or he was testing her mental strength.
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