fairy godmother‚ but yet‚ she still seems to come across as a distorted figure. In chapter eleven‚ Pip tells how she placed her hand upon his shoulder‚ “…She looked like the witch of the place.” This shows Miss Havisham to be the wicked witch of the story. Chapter fifteen‚ in this chapter of the book we learn about the ‘morose journeyman’ and the sort of tales he told Pip. “…the devil lived in a black corner of the forge‚ and that he knew the fiend very well: also that it
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went by the name Pip takes the readers along his journey on the different lifestyles he experienced. Through his journey‚ Pip’s demeanor changed slightly. Instantly Pip status changed when he became a wealthy man. His character changed from once a humble man to being vain. Pip changed his identity to climb the social ladder. Social Class often determined how people are treated. Pip was able to keep his humanistic ideals for people‚ although his social status had changed. Pip was desperate to
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first time he met Pip he threatened to rip his throat out. He sends Pip off to get him food‚ and when Pip returns Magiwtch believes Pip when he says he told no one: “I believe you. You’d be but a fierce young hound indeed‚ if out your time of life you could help to hunt a wretched warmint‚ hunted as near death and dung hill as this wretched warmint is!” (Dickens 13) His demeanor to Pip changes after Pip gives him the food. Magwitch is very thankful to Pip for not turning him
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Pip‚ the protagonist‚ and narrator of Great Expectations is absolutely the most pitied character in the novel. Throughout the entirety of Great Expectations‚ Pip shows a number of traits that establish who he is to others around him. He can be considered charitable when he deliberately steals his family rations for a stranger. While he acts like an outright jerk when Joe comes to visit Pip in London. Though there are times when Pip gets his readers to admire him at times‚ Pip acts narcissistic‚ impulsive
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Pip’s older sister‚ Mrs. Joe Gargery. Taking care of Pip made his sister rude and unhappy ever since their parents passing. At the end of the novel‚ a man named Orlick is a part of her death and Joe soon marries again to a young woman named Biddy. Biddy and Pip have always remained friends growing up. Being a blacksmith is no shame for Joe‚ nor does he complain about it‚ but makes the best of it. His character plays as a kind and hardworking man. Pip always looks up to Joe and he is the only person he
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Compeyson saying that her Fiance had left her. A few years later she had a stepdaughter named Estella‚ raised to get revenge on the male kind. Pip is one of the characters that’s in the middle of all this and can non-stop think about Estella. Pip had fallen in love‚ but he didn’t quite get that Estella isn’t capable of love. In the beginning of the novel Pip finds himself giving food and a file to Magwitch because he was threatened by him. Surprisingly‚ he finds out how Magwitch is his benefactor and
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Throughout Great Expectations Pip‚ is influenced in both negative and positive ways steering him in the direction of becoming a gentleman and with this comes the power and responsibility of money‚ and throughout his youth and most formative years‚ pip is becoming a toady because of the external influences he’s around‚ his own internal moral struggles‚ and how despite all of the factors working against him‚ he still has good morals and intentions. From the beginning of his meeting with Miss Havisham
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In Dickens’ ‘Great Expectations’‚ the main character Pip grew up in southeast England with his harsh and blunt sister Mrs. Joe who raised him forcefully and often violently ‘by hand’ and her kind and loving husband Joe Gargery who is what many critics such as E.M Forster call “a flat character” as his personality and motives do not change throughout the novel. Despite later feeling that blacksmithing is below him‚ in the Victorian era‚ Pip would have been very lucky to have had an automatic apprenticeship
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Havisham’s figurine‚ used to carry out her deeds. Regardless of Miss Havisham’s purpose with Estella‚ Estella is projected to be more merciful towards Pip‚ then Miss Havisham. Miss Havisham‚ pushes Pip to fall in love with Estella. Estella on the other hand warns Pip not to‚ out of compassion to protect Pip from heartbreak. Miss Havisham wants Pip
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The coming-of-age novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is a captivating story about a young boy named Pip who is experiencing all of life’s changes as he grows up. Throughout the book the reader see’s Pip grow for better or worse. Pip’s expectations grow in three stages. The first stage is Pip wanting so badly to be a respectable‚ wealthy gentleman‚ the second is Pip becoming a gentleman in hopes that Estella‚ a cruel hearted wealthy girl‚ will love him. Stage three is when he finally comes
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