How Does Pip Change Throughout The Novel

After gaining his wealth, Pip becomes snobby and lets everything go to his head. Now, after losing his wealth, we, as readers see a new change in Pip's personality. As for himself, Pip appears to feel ashamed of himself and his new class. In ​Great Expectations​, explaining Pip's feelings, Pip thinks, "Next day, I had the meanness to feign that I was under a binding promise to go down to Joe; but I was capable of almost any meanness towards Joe or his name." (Dickens, 391) Pips thoughts here, represent how he starts to realize how he has changed since moving to London. In his childhood, Pip was practically best friends with Joe, then becoming a gentleman, he has this sense that he is above Joe and essentially wanted nothing to do with

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As most main characters, Pip had humble beginnings, with a misconception of even his own name; “My father’s family name being Pip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer of more explicit than Pip.” (Dickens 9). Most would agree that not understanding one’s own name, even as a child, can be described as “common”. And yet, that is why Dicken’s gives the main character a name like that, so he will carry it with him as he grows and leaves his home. It serves as a reminder to the reader of Pip’s humble beginnings. However, humble beginnings aren’t as impressive without an achievement later in life. Pip’s achievement of growing into an impressive gentleman is most evident when a friend from his childhood refers to him as a superior, in the quote, “‘Which do not overdo it, Pip,’ said Joe; ‘but I shall be happy fur to see you able, sir.’ The last word grated on me; but how could I remonstrate!” (Dickens 436). In this quote, Joe shows that Pip has grown into a full fledged gentleman, and that while seemingly repaired, his relationship with Joe, and in turn his childhood, is not undamaged. Indeed, all journeys include some sort of damage, and one is never complete without the main character attempting to repair said damage by beseeching the family they had once turned their back on for forgiveness, as Pip does when he says, “And now though I

Pip does not tell Joe because he fears he will lose his companionship. In the future, Pip will struggle with telling the truth because of the fear that society will think less of him. Later that same day, the police are engaged in a search party to find the criminal. Joe and Pip accompany them; although, they do not believe that he must be apprehended. Once Magwitch is taken into custody, Joe and Pip both shed a tear. Pip's life at the forge is difficult due to Mrs. Joe's harsh nature, but he is also surrounded by the goodness and love of Joe. He has been taught that humans of all societal levels are important.

Joe’s personality is the opposite of his wife’s, including the presence of a moral code which is in turn passed on to Pip. When Joe learned Pip had told everyone lies about what he saw at Miss Havisham’s home, instead of yelling at him he told him that he’d never get to be a gentleman by “going crooked” and simply advised him to never do so again. Pip was also influenced by listening to Joe talk about the good in people, including how he was married to Mrs. Joe because he saw the good in Pip as a baby, and this makes Pip “look up to Joe in his heart.” Even though Joe was Pip’s brother-in-law he was more like a father figure/friend who taught Pip almost all of his admirable

Pip is the main character of the novel Great Expectations but his character changes throughout the book, going from lower class to wealthy then back to lower class again. This change in classes changes his behavior and view on life as the changes happen, making Pip one of the most hard to evaluate characters of Great Expectations. In the beginning of the book, he is introduced as an orphan living with his sister and her husband who works as a blacksmith. When Pip originally goes to Miss Havishams house to meet her and Estella, he does not exactly want to be as snob as Miss Havisham and Estella and live in their upper social class immediately. However, as he starts to develop feelings for Estella he understands that she would not marry him unless

Throughout Dickens’ novel Great Expectations, the character, personality, and social beliefs of Pip undergo complete transformations as he interacts with an ever-changing pool of characters presented in the book. Pip’s moral values remain more or less constant at the beginning and the end; however, it is evident that in the time between, the years of his maturation and coming of adulthood, he is fledgling to find his place in society. Although Pip is influenced by many characters throughout the novel, his two most influential role models are: Estella, the object of Miss Havisham’s revenge against men, and Magwitch, the benevolent convict. Exposing himself to such diverse characters Pip has to learn to discern right from wrong and chose

Herbert Pocket, in spite of being around the same age as Pip, is character that adds to Pip’s wish to become a gentleman, and while Herbert is benevolent, there is an absence of independence. Meeting Herbert for the first time is a significant point in the story that

However, soon after Pip obtains his fortune, his disposition changes completely, in which he develops a self-centered and inconsiderate personality. In consequence to this change, Pip leaves Joe for the life of a gentleman in London, where he meets a new companion. Herbert. Despite, along with Herbert, having “spent as much money as [they] could,” Pip soon finds himself “more or less miserable” with “a gay fiction . . . that [he was] constantly enjoying [himself], and a skeleton truth that [he] never did” (Dickens 215). With an immense sum of money Pip convinces himself that he can buy his way towards happiness, having become a corrupt individual. In spite of being able to obtain purchasable goods, Pip finds that he cannot fulfill his emotional

In the novel, it is clear that Pip is affected by his rise to fortune in a negative way. He treats the people who truly care about him the most, poorly, such as Joe and Biddy. He puts his efforts in impressing the people of higher social status. Pip’s transition into the negative personality that arose from expectations of being a gentleman can be used as a lesson in twenty-first century society. Parallels can be drawn from this novel and life today. People now in our society continue to value money and status and often times leave the people that care about them behind and in the dust. Great Expectations allows us to take the lessons learned by Pip and Joe and apply them to society today. Money and status should never trump the love and care of genuine people around

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One of the most important and common tools that authors use to illustrate the themes of their works is a character that undergoes several major changes throughout the story. In Great Expectations, Charles Dickens introduces the reader to many intriguing and memorable characters, including the eccentric recluse, Miss Havisham, the shrewd and careful lawyer, Mr. Jaggers, and the benevolent convict, Abel Magwitch. However, Great Expectations is the story of Pip and his initial dreams and resulting disappointments that eventually lead to him becoming a genuinely good person. The significant changes in Pip's character are very important to one of the novel's many themes. Dickens uses Pip's

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The entire story is told through the eyes of an adult Pip, even though Pip is a small child during parts of it. In his early years, Pip was strongly influenced by his guardians, Joe Gargery and his wife, Mrs. Joe. Joe instills a sense of honesty, industry, and friendliness in Pip, while Mrs. Joe does a great deal to contribute to his desires and ambitions through her constant emphasis on pomp and property. Pip is generally good-natured and thoughtful, and very imaginative. His false values, which are bolstered by his love of Estella, decrease the amount of respect that he has for Joe. His alienation from Joe and Joe's values builds through the second part of the novel, as Pip becomes selfish, greedy, and foolish. During the period when his expectations are intact, his only morally positive act was to secretly help Herbert Pocket into a good position. Upon discovering that Magwitch is his benefactor, a new phase begins in Pip's moral evolution. At first, Pip no longer feels the same human compassion for Magwitch that he did the first time he saw him out on the marshes. Gradually, Pip changes his perception of Magwitch, unlearning what he has learned. Pip becomes concerned with the man, and not the expectations that he could provide. When Jaggers presents the thought that there may be a way for Pip to get his hands on Magwitch's property, the idea sounds hollow and utterly empty to Pip. Pip learns about Estella's parentage through

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