strongly towards each other. However‚ once Pip had been introduced to Estella‚ he was overcome by her beauty‚ and would never again be able to look at Biddy‚ without feeling critical towards her. Slowly‚ after coming into contact with Estella‚ Pip was becoming superficial‚ as he was only interested in a girl’s appearance. Thinking of Biddy‚ Pip thought to himself‚ ’She was not beautiful--She was common and could not be like Estella...’ (p 600) Estella’s beauty had made Pip blind as to what was really
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improvement. Themes of social class and ambition move to the forefront with the introduction of Miss Havisham and Estella‚ and they remain there until the end. It is during his first visit to Satis House that Pip realises his social standing as a ‘common labouring boy.’ His feelings for Estella whom he describes as ’a very pretty and very
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interaction with other people in the course of this story. Although Pip was brought up in a harsh and poor background‚ with a punishing sister‚ who had brought him up “by hand”‚ he was gentle and kind. However‚ after his encounter with Miss Havisham and Estella‚ his perception of the world is drastically altered‚ and along with this so does his character. The reader first sees how sympathetic Pip is when he meets the escaped convict‚ Magwitch‚ in the graveyard. Dickens creates a sense of pathos through
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Pip‚ the young orphan boy from the forge was soon to become a young gentleman of great expectations. With a series of unpredictable events‚ unforeseen emotions‚ and a great deal of moral development we learn what it took for this young boy to learn how to be what he had always dreamed of becoming- a true gentleman. Never knowing who his parents were or what his true identity was we learn from the start that Pip has an ongoing voyage of self discovery. He started life as a blank canvas along with
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Ben Benmore How does Dickens present childhood in "Great Expectations"? In Victorian times‚ children had a very suppressive upbringing; "spare the rod and spoil the child" was a common motto. Children were treated poorly and unfairly‚ they were expected to be seen and not heard. In "Great Expectations"‚ Pip is treated very harshly by his sister‚ Mrs Joe‚ "...she had brought me up by hand...and knowing her to have a hard and heavy hand". This shows that Pip is hit by Mrs Joe‚ the use of the adjectives
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apprenticeship due to Joe’s profession. In my opinion‚ two major events in Pip’s childhood affect him for the rest of his life: his fateful and terrifying meeting with the convict Magwitch‚ and his embarrassing and revelatory meeting with Miss. Havisham and Estella. The first life-changing event for Pip is when ‘a fearful man… with a great iron on his leg’ named Magwitch approaches him in the graveyard where our protagonist’s parents lay. The Wordsworth Classics edition of the novel offers an illustration
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Expectations‚ Pip is a young orphan who lives with his sister and brother in law. They lead an impoverished lifestyle off of bits of bread so when Pip is introduced to the lavish lifestyles of Miss Havisham and her adopted daughter Estella‚ Pip is intrigued. Soon after‚ Pip falls in love with Estella and decided to abandon his old lifestyle in order to become educated in London. After many years old hard work and dedication‚Pip not only leans how to read and write‚ but he has also gained respect
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being worthy to marry Estella because he now has the money. The title‚ Great Expectations‚ is ironic because expectations are not usually great and Pip’s expectations are false. Inheriting the money‚ Pip now has the chance to become a gentleman and to have an easier life. But when this happens‚ Pip befriends Joe and also starts to act differently. Pip convinces himself that Miss Havisham is his benefactor. Also‚ Pip thinks that Miss Havisham wants him to marry Estella after he becomes a gentleman
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and meets Estella who snubs him because of his working class ways. This physical migration to Satis House causes Pip to undergo a cognitive migration. When he returns home that day he thinks: “I wished Joe had been more genteelly brought up and then I should have been too.” Pip now longs to have a higher status and to be a gentleman. These first migrations position the reader to endorse the value of self-improvement and wish‚ along with Pip‚ for him to become a gentleman and win Estella. Eventually
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Dickens criticized the world of his own time because it valued the status of being a gentleman over someone doing a useful job. Those who thought they were gentlemen often mocked ordinary citizens. Show how he achieved these aims through the language used and his description of the way Pip and the other characters behaved in the novel. In his numerous literary works‚ Dickens strong sense of right and wrong‚ and his recognition of the many injustices present in Victorian Society are clearly displayed
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