Pip Discord Quotes

“ The eye is the lamp of the body. You draw light into your body through your eyes, and light shines out to the world through your eyes.” Mathew 6:22 closely ties to temptations and goals Pip has as he progresses in the novel. In the novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Pip learns the rigorousness of life and utilizes them to make him a true gentleman. At the start of the story Pip rebukes Magwitch for his appearance; his dirty rags, and how poverish he is. As the story progresses, he realizes Magwitch’s prodigious effect on his life and begins to transmute his views on him. Towards the conclusion of the novel, Magwitch has died and Pip has become an incipient person with a new flair of deference. As the story progresses, Pip finds his

Pip, is in the church yard visiting his parents who had passes away. He was in the marsh country as he looked around he could see feeding cattle and a lot more. As Pip began to cry this man had come out of the church yelling at Pip that if he didn’t stop crying he would slit his throat. The old man had picked up Pip by his feet turned him upside down and shook him till the things in his pocket came out. He ate Pip’s bread and demanded that he bring him food, a file, and wittles. If pip didn’t bring those to the old man that he would have his heart and liver. Pip went home to his sister and her husband who raise Pip. Pip had gotten in trouble for going to the church yard because he had caused his sister a panic. After getting lectured they had

"Let him go free? Let him profit by the means I found out? Let him make a tool of me afresh and again? Once more? No, no, no. If I had died at the bottom there…I'd have held to him with that grip, that you should have been safe to find him in my hold” (36).

This quote from Chapter 5 is describing Pip’s limited reunion with Magwitch after he had been rounded up by the police. The general statement made by Charles Dickens in this quote, is that Pip is still an innocent young boy. More specifically, Dickens describes Pip to be still in touch with his innocence and guilt, just as any other child is. In this passage, Dickens is suggesting that Pip is always concerned with what other people think of his behavior. In this passage, the author is suggesting that PIp is very anxious to prove to Magwitch that he is innocent.Like the innocent young boy Pip is, Pip is always concerned with what other people think of his behavior. Which is the author's way of proving Pip's innocence. But as Magwitch looks

When Pip meets the convict first he gets Pip to steal food and a file (to wear down the iron cuff and cut it off) from his sister, I can show this by...”you get me a file” and it says after that “And you get me wittles” again dickens is successful at making the reader remorseful for Pip that he has to steal from his own sister and what if she sees him stealing which would make her very angry which will result in Pip getting shouted at.

This passage is one of the very first sentence to describe Pip. By this passage, Dickens made readers feel sympathy or empathy towards Pip by telling them that he is an orphan. This is very interesting and ironic because this contrast the title of the book. Pip expresses his love for Mr. Joe, a father figure, in this passage, but he also makes readers feel compassion by stating that “perhaps for no better reason… than because the dear fellow let [Pip] love him.” This shows how deserted he is. He expresses that he cannot love someone because they do not let him. This foreshadows that throughout the Pip’s journey, he will find what true love and true friendship is. In this passage, Pip decides not to tell Joe that Pip was the one who stole the pie and had given it to Magwitch. This important passage leads Pip, who is innocent and impeccable, to mature into an adult world. Pip learns how to tell lies to protect what is valuable to himself. He mentions himself as an “untaught genius” who “made the discovery of the line of action” for himself. This shows that the brutal world has forced Pip to give up his own morality to survive.

that he, the convict Pip met at the marshes, is the man who gave Pip

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

He is described as “a fearful man in coarse grey, with a great iron on his leg” and “smothered in mud, and lamed by stones.” These descriptions immediately adds to the tension and the manner in which he approaches Pip “glared and growled” and “seized,” shows the violence in his merciless actions and his intimidating behaviour. He threatens Pip by saying “I’ll cut your throat,” to which Pip responds by having “pleaded in terror,” emphasising his helplessness and causing the reader to sympathise with his situation. The tone in which Magwitch speaks with him in, is intimidating and authoritative for example “Tell us your name!” which sounds more like a command than a question. Despite his insolent attitude towards him, Pip replies in a polite and respectful tone of voice - “If you would kindly please...” this creates a sense of urgency and shows that he is powerless and vulnerable. Magwitch continues to use daunting imagery to threaten Pip by saying “Your liver shall be tore out, roasted and ate.” He also forces Pip to swear an oath, which he feels obliged to do as he is powerless to act otherwise. This scene as a whole causes the reader to feel resentment towards Magwitch and pity for Pip’s situation, further adding to the sympathy.

At first, Pip is an abject, shy individual that does not hold his head up. “I have particular reasons for wanting to be a gentleman.” (pg 135) This quote shows when Pip first starts out and doesn’t even want to show people his true colors, showing the ignorance of life and the ignorance to what his true potentials could be. As the novel progresses, Pip begins to find his inner strength and

Also when Pip returns home a few times he feels upset and guilty because he knows leaving was the wrong thing to do. At these times Pip tries to reconnect with the loved ones he deserted, such as Biddy and Joe, but over all his attempts still do not amount to the missing sense of home Pip has. All of these reminders; the marshes, repeating thoughts, and guilty feelings all represent to Pip of symbols that remind him of home.

Soon after the incident in the graveyard, Pip is introduced to a class of people deemed superior to his own only by virtue of their wealth. From them, Pip learns to judge others, and himself, by the quantity and quality of their material possessions, rather than the quantity and quality of their humanity. Thus blinded by the tangible, or material, Pip adopts the values of this better class and goes off in blind pursuit of such possessions as will make him an acceptable member of their numbers.

It relates to the theme of social class, because Pip is a poor young boy at the time. Being a from the poor class, he doesn't know how to talk in the dignified matter that the richer classes speak in.

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.

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.