Great Expectations Love Is Bad

Pip’s primary goal in Great Expectations is to win the heart over of the wealthy and beautiful Estella, and to acquire something else to achieve this goal: wealth. Being of a lower class and the playmate of Miss Havisham, as far as Estella is concerned, Pip is nothing to her in the beginning. Not to say this isn’t the case of Pip’s feelings for Estella, as in the very beginning of their interaction everything he feels is purely lust: lust for the stunning Estella, hankering for the wealth he wishes to acquire to impress her. At this point, he doesn’t know much about Estella at all; her exterior is beautiful, not just her appearance but also the opulent life she lives, however her heart is ice cold, as Miss Havisham states when she says, “I

Pip expresses that he "...loved Joe perhaps for no better reason than because the dear fellow let me love him" implying that Pip may have a problem expressing the way he feels about those in his life (Dickens 41). This lack of expression remains present in Pip’s character throughout the novel, especially with frustration for the way he feels about Estella. Pip earning his expectations put a strain on the already limited relationship that he had with Joe, once Pip began to realize that Joe’s occupation was meager and unfit for someone with Pip’s means.

Through the years, a number of individuals have argued that this is the best way for the novel to conclude. These people tend to believe that this ending is more true to the overall tone of the novel than the revised finale. Great Expectations never exists as a typically happy story. Its plot is marked by constant disappointment and suffering, which would therefore make the application of a happy, romantic ending seem rather unnatural. By the end of the story, Pip has learned a great deal about himself and reached a new level of maturity. He has come to recognize the mistakes that he had made as a young man and is able to appreciate the importance of family. No longer is he consumed by a selfish desire for wealth and social status. Pip’s primary motivation for attaining such a gentlemanly status had been his desire to marry Estella. By the end of the novel, however, Pip’s character has been redeemed. He has progressed beyond the point in his life that was represented by his love for Estella. This deliverance would then seem to make it impossible for Pip to continue loving Estella. She was a part of his youth; Pip, however, has become a man.

The relationships around individuals impact how they will view relationships and who they will chase after. In Great Expectations, Dickens shows how Mr. & Mrs. Joe’s relationship affects Pip. In the primary relationship in Pip’s life, he witnesses a woman who constantly abuses a man and treats him with little respect. Dickens reveals how Pip, in his adulthood, chases after Estella who similarly treats him without kindness or regard for his well-being. Dickens shows how Pip follows the example set for him by his guardians and accepts Estella’s foul treatment of him. Just as Joe reflects on Mrs. Joe’s figure and attractiveness, Pip also obsesses

Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations chronicles Pip’s struggle to improve his status in English society. He is originally taught that his happiness directly correlates to the amount of wealth he accumulates. Two characters he encounters—Joe Gargery and Miss Havisham—help him realize that this notion is an unfortunate misconception, and their experiences show Pip that he not live his life by such norms.

In Charles Dickens' novel Great Expectations, the text shows the reader the grotesque side of love when Pip enters a metaphorical labyrinth in which he will never reach the end where Estella lies. Pip begins his journey at Satis House where Estella refuses to spend time with Pip because of his reputational standpoint on the social hierarchy. "'With this boy? Why, he is a common laboring boy,'" Estella says when Miss Havisham forces her to play cards with Pip, but this only makes Pip want to pursue her even more (Dickens 59). "'I have no softness there, no—sympathy—sentiment—nonsense,'" Estella says to Pip speaking of her heart (242). Estella tells Pip about her having no feelings in her heart for love or care, and it is all just "nonsense" to her. Pip found himself helpless because the love of his life just told him that she will never be able to love him or anybody

Throughout the book Pip was not happy with his life and wanted to become something more; his name meant “seed”, like a seed Pip was “planted” and the reader watches him grow. Estella told Pip that he was just a common-labouring boy. (chapter 8) Pip had never thought as himself as common, but now he wanted to become a gentleman so that he would be worthy of Estella. However once Pip becomes a gentleman he realizes that it is not what he thought it would be. Consequently he starts to neglect Joe and Biddy, however in the end, Pip starts to change back to the person he used to be and tries to repair his relationship with Joe and Biddy. In addition he gives his money to Herbert so that he can go to merchant school and Herbert ends up giving Pip a job in the end. This shows that you gain from giving, if Pip would not have gave Herbert the money he would not have gotten the job offer.

In the first stage of Great Expectations, Pip begins as a contented boy, happy with his own way of life, but soon becomes humiliated by the ones he loves, and starts

Once Pip wins, Estella gives him the ability to kiss her on the cheek. He does so, leaving him affected for the rest of his life. Now in the process of becoming a gentleman, Pip claims that Estella was the inspiration for everything he has done in the past and talks about his love for her. “The unqualified truth is that, when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible.” (Dickens 214). When Pip heard Estella was back at the Satis House from a trip to Paris, he went to see her and Miss. Havisham. In Miss. Havisham’s room, he saw a woman that he realized was Estella. He said that she was a very beautiful lady and developed very well. On a walk through the garden, Pip tried to recall the moments they had together to Estella but unfortunately she didn’t remember. She then confessed to Pip, “That I have no heart—if that has anything to do with my memory…I have no softness there, no sympathy—sentiment—nonsense.” (Dickens 219). That should have been an alarm for Pip to show that Estella was unable to be loved, unable to love. Estella is telling Pip that she will never love him or anyone. Nonetheless, because he found her desirable, he was blinded by his love for her. “I got through some jargon to the effect that I took the liberty of doubting that. That I knew better. That there could be no such beauty without it.” (Dickens

Miss Havisham raised Estella to manipulate and treat men cruel, because of a heartbreak that she went through in the past. She enjoys seeing Estella play with Pip’s feelings. In a way, Miss Havisham bombards Pip with Estella's mistreatment of him. She calls him “a common labouring-boy” (MLA) and teases him for his coarse hands and the way he plays cards. In chapter… She asks Pip what he thinks of Estella. After Miss Havisham persuades him to tell her he says she is pretty and affront. Pip is falling for Miss Havisham and Estella’s tricks. Miss Havisham speaks "Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces—and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper—love her, love her, love her!". This is exposing how she really works, and how she is all about betrayal and disappointed love. Miss Havisham reveals her carelessness for the feelings and emotions of others. Obviously she is using Estella to break Pip's heart, and is making this clear to Pip. She does not realize what she is doing is wrong, and cruel. Pip can not really fall in love again, even with Estella. Miss Havisham suffers, therefore she wants others to suffer. The impact of Miss Havisham's manipulation of Pip transforms his life

In the novel, Great Expectations, written by Charles Dickens in a realistic gothic fiction genre, a young boy named Pip grows up and falls in love with a girl named Estella. As time progresses, Pip moves to London and back while being involved in an intricate plot with an escape convict, a heartbroken evil women, and many friends and enemies. Miss Havisham influenced Pip in a harmful way throughout the novel due to her ignorance of pain and how she only wanted to exact her revenge on all men for her sadness. In this story, love symbolizes the ignorance that people have such as Pip and Estella and Havisham with all other individuals.

Pip’s mindset regarding classes and success in life is drastically altered after his initial visit to the aristocratic Miss Havisham. “She said I was common” (69) spurs the realization in Pip that he is indeed innocent but unfortunately much oppressed. Pip is very distraught with his birth place into society, to the point that he “was discontented” (130) -- he increasingly desires to be a gentleman. He primarily desires this as a means of impressing Estella and winning her over. At this point in the novel, Pip is willing to give away what he loves (Joe – family setting) to obtain a superficial and insulting girl. One day Pip receives word that he now has the ability to grow up to be his ultimate dream, to be a gentleman. Pip awakens to a new world and those he once loved are no longer good enough for Pip. Moving to London, he becomes far more sophisticated, but at the same time loses his natural goodness. (Chesterton 142). Pip is leaving happiness and his real family to attain a life he thinks will make him more content. Before departing, he dreams of “Fantastic failures of journeys occupied me until the day dawned and the birds were singing” (148). This relates the dream that Pip has just before he sets out to London for the first time, with all of his "great expectations" before him. Pip’s dream is permeated with the sadness and guilt caused by his imminent departure from Joe and Biddy and his aspirations for a new social station.

Great Expectations’ main character, Phillip Pirrip- generally known as Pip- had a rough upbringing as a child. His sister, Mrs. Joe had “brought him up by hand”, after their parents and five brothers had all been laid to rest many years ago. Another character, Herbert Pocket experienced a bizarre childhood, though in a different manner. Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations develops through the novel following Pip, a young “common boy” who grew up in the countryside. As he matured so did his love for a girl of higher class, Estella. However, being a common boy, Pip was not good enough for his Estella, thus once he was given an opportunity to become a gentleman in London he seized it without much hesitation. Charles Dickens’ had his own

In Charles Dickens’ novel, Great Expectations, the main character named Pip suffers through a conflict of confusing good and bad people. He repeatedly disregards the people that love and care for him and instead chooses to care for people who do not care for him. When making these choices, Pip senses that he is making the wrong decisions and therefore confuses good and bad and also confuses himself.

In Great Expectations we explore Pip’s ups and downs as he moves throughout the world trying to understand the hardships that come with it. Pip starts as a cheerful but fearful young boy growing up in nineteenth century England. Pip claims that his sister abused him and made him anxious of the world, he does this by saying “My sister’s