Great Expectations Trauma

Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens, is about a boy’s journey from being a little boy trying to stay alive from a convict that would kill him if Pip did not bring him what the convict asked for. Pip gotten an opportunity to go with his sister’s husband, Joe, to Miss. Havisham and her ‘daughter’, Estella, and Pip falls in love with Estella. Pip got money from a benefactor but he thinks it was from Miss. Havisham but, when he went to London with the money. But, he learns that his benefactor was the convict, Provis, who he meet with his best friend, Herbert. Provis told the story how he got the money and how he wanted to change his life from how ruining Miss. Havisham’s life from killing her husband on their wedding day with his partner,
Pip encounters with a convict that threatened his life life if he does not bring the items that he wants. The author states, “a traumatic and stress related disorder resulting from direct or indirect exposure to actual or threatened death” (Piofrowski 1). Pip states in the book, “O! Don’t cut my throat, sir’, I pleaded in terror” (Dickens 2). Imagination having a person coming out of nowhere, and he is telling you that if you don’t bring the items to him by the next day or you would die. Especially at the age that Pip was at. That scene would be traumatic event for anyone especially just going to see your parents and family’s graves like, Pip had to go through. Pip shows PTSD again when his sister hits him and her husband maybe causing trauma for Pip. Piofrowski states in her book, “Characterized by persistent difficulties that negatively affect on individual’s social interactions” (Piofrowksi 1). Pip while he was going home from the graveyard says, “I supposed that Joe Gargery and I were both brought up by hand” (Dickens 5). Having an abusive home life, would cause PTSD or any disorder but, having you as a child and the father figure as well getting abused too, could cause the person to have trauma watching someone else’s life in danger like as well as yours. Having Pip getting those items for the convict, caused him to be frightened to go to the Hulks (jail). Said by the
Pip shows this disorder when he excessively talks about Estella all the tie to an extreme degree. From the author, she states, “A condition in which one person feels an overwhelming obsessive desire toward a person” (Dryden-Edwards 1). Pip explains, “And yet, when I think of Estella--” (Dickens 194). Pip thinks about Estella all the time, he brings her up all the time when he is talking to Herbert. Pip talks about her even when he is talking about nothing about work. Pip talks about Estella to an extreme degree for his friends to be worried and tell him to get her out of his head. Pip’s obsessive love of Estella is the only thing that Pip thinks about clearing limits for other obsessive behaviors. In the article it states, “The burst of happiness, the sudden sky-blue clarity of being comfortable in love can seem utterly outweighed by the tumult in either side” (Dryden-Edwards 1). Dickens has Pip say, “I have never left off adoring her. And she has come back a most beautiful and most elegant creature. And I saw her yesterday. And I adored her before, I now doubty adore her” (Dickens 194). Pip’s obsessive love for Estella is making any conversation with Pip not about that topic, Pip is going to find a way to make Estella mixed in to the conversation. Estella is making any obsessive behaviors that Pip have go away just when she pops into his head. Pip loves Estella obsessively and