Great Expectations Rhetorical Analysis

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.

Estella lives in the Manor House with her adoptive mother Miss Havisham who has raised her up as a tool to be used to break men’s hearts. Although she constantly insults and makes fun of Pip, he falls in love with her. This love for her makes Pip vulnerable to any and every little insult that comes out of her mouth and Pip puts to heart everything she says. So, when she says, "He calls the knaves, Jacks, this boy!...And what course hands he has! And what thick boots!" he takes it to heart (Dickens 105). It is at this point that Pip begins to feel ashamed of his uneducated family, and longs to become a gentleman. Due to Estella’s cold-hearted character and her arrogant personality, Pip is made to feel that he stands no chance with her. Even more dangerous is her destructive influence on Pip which makes him strive to become a gentleman no matter the cost. Rather than being surrounded by people such as Estella who do nothing but put Pip’s character down, he should surround himself with supportive and encouraging individuals who are always there for him and appreciate his unique personality. This is what causes growth in a person.

When Pip came over to Miss Havisham one day he realized that he had fallen for Estella. Pip has a desire to achieve Estella. He most likely fell in love with the mean and proud girl because Pip has only experienced love in that way. His sister, his guardian, yells and hits him thus, he only ever experienced love through hate. Estella calls Pip “boy” which represents the superiority over one another. This causes PIp to reject the love from Joe and Biddy. Pip’s want to pursue Estella causes him to ignore Joe and Biddy. Biddy and Pip could have had a relationship and Pip wishes he could love her, however he is so called “love” is stronger for Estella. It's called “love” because she is always mean to Pip; it's

Pip is content at the forge until pompous Uncle Pumblechook, Joe's uncle, takes him to visit to Satis House, for the first time, where he makes the acquaintance of Miss Havisham and Estella. Satis House is dismal and devoid of life with the exception of Estella, in Pip's eyes. Estella is a pretty, proud, and emotionless girl with who treats Pip badly yet still causes Pip to become completely infatuated with her. The forge now makes Pip ashamed and embarrassed because a coarse, common man could never spend an eternity with such a beauty. Pip is so confused about Estella's insults intertwined with her flirting that all he really knows is that he is ashamed of his social standing. Pip's love for Joe was shadowed by this embarrassment. "…I was ashamed of the dear good fellow—I know I was ashamed of

Since the first day Pip and Estella set their eyes on each other, Estella has done nothing but play with Pip’s emotions. Miss Havisham raises Estella so that her heart portrays cold and she can break any man’s heart. Pip comes in the picture and becomes her first victim. On her arrival to London, Pip comes to the train station hours ahead of time and he follows her every move and instructions. Pip accompanies Estella in the house of her hostess Mrs. Brandley and he spends a lot of time with her. While keeping Estella company as a suitor, he witnesses the lack of compassion Estella treats the other suitors and the little attention he receives. Pip sees Drummle and Estella flirting, he confronts her and she informs him that her discussion with

One of Miss Havisham’s main reasons for bringing Pip to her house is to introduce him to Estella and cause him to fall in love with her. As Pip grows older, she continues to ask him questions about Estella and what he thinks of her looks and behavior. When Pip comes for a visit after moving to London, she proclaims to him “Love her, love her, love her! If she favors you, love her. If she wounds you, love her.

Pip never gave thought to his appearance before Estella's comment but now due to her words Pip desires a life and class different from his own. This theme is again demonstrated through Pip in a conversation he has on a walk with Biddy. After being informed that a mysterious benefactor wishes for Pip to become a gentleman in London he shares the news of his departure to Biddy. In this conversation Pip exudes a sense of superiority to Biddy and concerning Joe. He verbalizes an utter dissatisfaction with life he has been born into and that his desire to become a gentleman is coming true.

Pip and His Strife For Love Charles Dickens uses Pip's love driven journey to wealth to display how money and love can cause a person to treat others unconventionally. In part one Pip figures that his only way to win Estella's heart was to be rich and respectable, so he feels unworthy of her affection and uses that as a cause as to why she does not treat him well. Towards the end of part one Pip finds he had great expectations and is hopeful that he could use it to gain Estella's affections. Joe pays a visit to Pip, and Pip would have done anything to keep him from coming. Pip didn't want Drummel to see Joe, because Drummel would look down on him because of Joe.

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

Since Pip is now an upper class gentleman, this is another area in his life in which there is a regional cultural collision between his past background of low class society with his new background of upper class society. Before he discovered this, Pip believed that Miss Havisham was his benefactor because she was extremely wealthy and she knew that he was trying to become an upper class gentleman with the intention of impressing Estella, her adopted daughter. After Pip discovered that Magwitch was his benefactor, he began to feel guilty about annihilating those in his past from his current lifestyle (Dickens 340-344). This is the stage in his life when he begins to realize that changing himself as a whole didn’t guarantee that he would exactly accomplish his expectations of wooing Estella by being a gentleman with a good fortune and being accepted by

He was moved by her beauty, elegance and nobility. He dreamed that they can live together happily but she treated him without proper respect. Pip realized that he was too humble to love Estella. He started to feel ashamed of his lowliness which he believed would destroy his hope for Estella’s love. He wanted to let Miss Estella accept him and he needed become one of the upper class so as to match her. Although Estella asked Pip to get away from her, and Pip knew that Estella may hurt him, Pip still couldn’t leave her. He was willing to do everything for her. Estella was adopted to revenge all men by Miss Havisham who was abandoned by Compeyson on the wedding day and couldn’t walk out of the shadow of the past with hatred and strange behavior. Estella was not possible to learn how to love others in this case. In fact, Pip could be aware of her shortcomings, but Pip believed that Estella would be moved by his faithfulness and

After Pip received a secret benefactor (which he thought was Miss Havisham), his life changed drastically. Now he had an opulent life, and was afraid to be disapproved by his old friends like Joe. Joe went to visit Pip, but Pip was acting annoyed until he said he Estella was back and wanted to see him. When he saw Estella, even if he wasn’t just a blacksmith anymore, he felt unworthy around her. Herbert told Pip that Miss Havisham being his benefactor didn´t means she wanted Pip to marry Estella; he also confessed he was in love with Clara.

I am disgusted with my calling and with my life. I have never taken to either since I was bound. Don’t be absurd” (130). Pip’s statement reveals that he is repulsed at the thought of living a common life, deeming it atrocious despite how content Biddy is with her own. Instead of cherishing his life with Joe and Biddy, he chooses to take the arduous route, yearning for money and Estella as if she is the newest fashion statement sanctioned on the highest shelf in the store, with her revenge-fixated guardian Miss Havisham governing the price tag and Pip cashing in his friends, family, and ultimately, his mindset. Accordingly, Pip starts to wander astray from his previous beliefs because of the fortune he longs to have, and like a spider spinning an endless web, he comes to believe in all the promises that wealth seems to bring. With the influence of money at his fingertips, he believes he can clearly do anything, and that includes marrying Estella. But everything he’s “worked” for all come crashing down when he loses not only his fortune, but his whole nescient perspective on what it means to be a gentleman. “With [Pip’s] heart beating like a heavy hammer of disordered action, [he] rose out of [his] chair,” shocked beyond disbelief as the once thought

Estella left a huge impression on Pip and one of the biggest personality changes he went through, was how self-conscious he became. When innocent polite grateful Pip has his first visit at the Satis House, he is ordered to play cards with Miss Havisham 's lovely adopted daughter Estella. All seems to go well until she begins to call him out on his appearance and dialect. " 'He calls knaves, jacks this boy! ' said Estella with disdain before our first game out. 'And what coarse hands he has and what thick boots ! '" (Dickens, 60). Once Estella starts to remark on how "common" Pip was, he immediately begins to become more self aware. He soon becomes ashamed of his class and his "common" friend Joe, essentially dedicating his life to being a gentleman to get his "dream girl". Not only did Estella make Pip feel self conscious just at the Satis House, but she ultimately scarred him and left him feeling unhappy about his "commonness" all throughout his younger years.

Thinking this, Pip is shocked when Miss Havisham invites Joe to her mansion to complete Pip’s apprenticeship papers and encourages for Pip to become a blacksmith. It isn’t until Pip goes to London, that he learns Miss Havisham’s story. Miss Havisham, though never married, was once deeply in love with a man who unfortunately only wanted her money. The man left her on what was supposed to be their wedding day with a handsome sum of her money and never returned. Blinded by her broken heart, Miss Havisham saw all men to be deceitful cruel creatures. To seek revenge on her fiancée, Miss Havisham adopted Estella to break the hearts of men. This is the reason she invited Pip to come to her mansion; to see him desperately chase after Estella but fail horridly. She even encourages Pip’s love for her when he is uncertain so he would keep holding onto hope that someday she would be his wife. Ultimately, Miss Havisham does see the cruelty of her ways and desperately begs Pip for his forgiveness in which he graciously gives. Pip had expectations of marrying Estella but Miss Havisham only uses Pip to get revenge on all male sex, creating quite a