In discussions of Charles Dickens's "Great Expectations" (1861) this semester, my students and I keep repeating two issues: first, rhetorical figures of repetition, such as anaphora and epistrophe, and secondly, the relationship between Pip the adult narrator and Pip the child (and young adult) character. Today, on the basis of Peter Brooks's 1980 article "Repetition, Repression, and Return: 'Great Expectations' and the Study of Plot", we added a third issue: repetition of scenes in the plot rather than phrases in sentences. Our goal could now be to work toward integrating the doubling of rhetoric, the doubling of Pip as character and narrator, and the doubling of scenes into one overall interpretation. (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 29 April 2025)