Guilt In Great Expectations By Charles Dickens

When something is done wrong, one can’t go back and change it, but the guilt can remind them to do better next time or do fix what’s been done. In Great Expectations, Charles Dickens describes how some characters treat others cruelly or…. Dickens analyzes how those certain characters feel ashamed of their previous actions and how it brought them anguish. As Pip was walking through the marshes, he encounters a convict who threatens him to obtain a file and some food. Pip agrees to do so as he didn’t want to get hurt. He becomes paranoid and worried before actually committing the crime and believes someone will yell after him to “Stop thief!”(14). A sign of guilt is seen in Pip immediately after he steals the bread and file from Joe’s tools in the forge as he claims, “The mist was heavier yet when I got out upon the marshes”(15). By stealing the materials, Pip knows he is committing a crime and therefore leads to his discomfort. He feels even more regret as stealing from his family may lead to an imprisonment. After receiving his great expectations, Pip leaves home and lives in Barnard’s Inn. After some time, Biddy
There’s a change of heart seen in her as she tells Pip that “until I saw you a looking-glass that showed me what I once felt myself, I had not known what I had done”(424). She realizes how much her manipulation of Estella affected Pip as he felt the same pain she once did. Miss Havisham continues to yell out “What have I done!”(424) as she believes the repetition of those words will make her actions any more forgiving. She’s hoping that by she herself realizing her mistakes, Pip will then realize how apologetic she is and forgive her as well. She grieves on her mistakes and after being saved from the fire, pleads to Pip to forgive her. She understood that Pip truly fell in love with Estella and knows it was her fault since it was her plan for