QUESTION ABOUT A PASSAGE.

Citation: "You'll drive me to the churchyard betwixt you, one of these days, and oh, a pr-r-recious pair you'd be without me!" (Mrs. Joe Gargery pg. 9)

My book has different page numbers, but it's on the second or third page of Chapter 2.

Questions: There are two things that I got confused about. One, what does the word betwixt mean? It's used multiple times in the novel already and I just don't know what it means! Second, I understand that she thinks that if she wasn't in Pip's life, his life would be awful, but why does she include saying that Joe wouldn't be good without her because he hasn't done anything wrong!?

GROUP INTRO PARAGRAPH.

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INTRO PARAGRAPH:
         To be honest, sometimes you have to lie to be truthful. In Oscar Wilde’s play, The Importance of Being Earnest, dishonesty Is used by many of the characters so that they can be honest to themselves. Like a veil, their lies hide who they are in truth. These lies trickle into their social lifes and allow, or hinder, them to get away from their social positions and act on what they really wish to do. Lying allows the characters to be with those they truly love and care for, rather than having to lie in a relationship that they get forced into. Another way dishonesty is displayed throughout the book is in Algernon’s “bunburying” or rather his hunt for self-gain. Not telling the truth to avoid what you’re afraid of is how the characters protect themselves.

GROUP ESSAY COLLABORATION.

        Okay, so I know that Mathew doesn't have a blog and not sure if he is even going to read this or not but for Enola; I know that we weren't at the stage on Friday to even share our paragraphs so I'm going to post my paragraph and do the best that I can with the post anyway.

2nd BODY PARAGRAPH:
        Wilde has the characters pretend to be those who they aren’t, just to be with the people that they love. First off, having an affair with someone was considered normal believe it or not. During the conversation Algernon and Jack were having about marriage and bunburying, Algernon says “…three is company and two is none.” If you can’t be loyal and truthful to your marriage and are just going to go off and have an affair, then don’t go through all of the trouble of getting married. If there are two people in a relationship and one doesn’t love the other, than they should just tell them that up front rather than going behind their back and being dishonest. On the other hand, John plays the role of Ernest because he thinks that he’ll be thought of lesser as a person if Gwendolen knew his true self. This is first shown when Jack says “…you don’t really mean to say that you couldn’t love me if my name wasn’t Ernest?” If you want a relationship to last, then you think that getting down the basics such as knowing the real first name of your partner would be one of the first things to do. Jack is using dishonesty to impress the girl he wants to be with, but eventually realizes that he was never being untruthful in any way. In addition, the ladies in this play seemed to be attracted to the name of Ernest no matter whom the person may be. Gwendolen first shows her attraction during a conversation with Jack when she says “The only really safe name is Ernest.” Love isn’t based on name or even social standings but of pure attractions between one another. Wilde shows that the women are being dishonest without even realizing it because on the inside, they’re attracted to the person and not their name. The women are doing this to fulfill themselves and their personal pleasures. All in all, Wilde showed us that not all lying is bad if you’re lying to be truthful.

        Yet again, we haven't shared our paragraphs yet so all of this is new to you. For all of my concrete details, I have quotes. I'm not sure if this is a good idea or not or if it blends nicely or not, so let me know. I tried making all of my commentary so it wasn't summarizing my concrete details because I know that it's not good to have that. I've proof read it already to make sure I didn't have any "I" statements but it'd be nice if you could double check that for me. Also, for my last two "topics" or whatever, I don't know if they sound to much a like or if I should just leave them like that.