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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

In 1861, Charles Dickens wrote Great Expectations, which depicted the trying and troubling life of a young orphan named Pip. During his lifetime, he experienced several difficult events and met an eclectic group of people. Along the way, Pip’s character developed, experiencing quite a few ups and downs. Like with many other characters in the novel, society and class dictated his worldview. The book dealt with common themes such as wealth, love, and society. However, heavy emphasis was placed on corruption, specifically through money. Within the novel, the lives of Compeyson, Miss Havisham, and Pip showed just how much wealth can corrupt even the purest of heart.

In Charles Dicken’s Great Expectations, Pip Pirrip, the narrator and protagonist of the story, allows his new wealth to affect his judgement of other characters by feeling superior towards those who have less than him and being jealous of those with a greater fortune. First of all, Pip, upon seeing his brother-in-law Joe for dinner at his apartment, is embarrassed by Joe’s bad manners and causes him to leave the house because of his unkindly attitude. Pip’s poor treatment towards Joe shows that he does not accept his former status of the lower class, and his current position in the aristocratic life has caused him to turn his back on those he loves. The new wealth he has accumulated causes the view of his once fatherly figure to be disarrayed.

Throughout Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations, readers see a view of reality that is twisted and mishapen based on the distinct experiences each character faces. Dickens portrays each character from a viewpoint that is different and is influenced by many factors throughout the story. Each character's interpretation of happiness is distinct and many of them are deceived into believing that they have found happiness when in reality it has alluded them.

                  The quest to improve oneself, rise in social circles or accumulate wealth to find happiness is a journey many have embarked on. In the novel Great Expectations, Charles Dickens explores this topic through the character Pip, a young orphan boy living in lower class England during the mid-1800’s. The overriding theme of the book is clear:  love, loyalty, and integrity are more fulfilling than social status, wealth, and class. The title of the book reflects Pip’s approach toward life. He is never content but always has Great Expectations of something better coming in his future, whether it be love, social status or his own integrity. As we follow Pip from his childhood, through adolescence and eventually into his life as an adult, we witness him struggle with his conscience while obsessively longing to improve his social standing in life and win the love of a girl he views as his social superior. Pip eventually learns that wealth and influential friends can never compare to the love and devotion of your family.

Great Expectations is a suspenseful novel that was crafted by Charles Dickens. It encompasses an orphaned-low class boy, Pip, and his journey to adulthood. His childhood surrounds his aspirations to one day be a gentlemen. Throughout the novel, Pip encounters several events and faces a variety of people who all shape the person he is. Teeter-tottering between expectations vs reality, right vs wrong, and revenge vs reward, Great Expectations amplifies the struggles that an orphaned boy encountered on his way to love and success. In the novel, Pip befriends Miss Havisham. She is a lonesome, jilted bride who plays a dramatic role in Pip’s life, that is, she initiated his hopes of becoming a gentlemen. Throughout Great Expectations, it is

In the 19th century England, the country was divided into two classes: the rich and the poor; the rich had the luxury to live prosperous lives and not have to lift a finger to do so, while the poor had dreamed to be in their shoes as they worked constantly to make a living off of the little income they received. This essay will include the work of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations, and the novel tells the story of Pip, a young orphan boy who lives with his sister and her husband who is a blacksmith, one day he is requested to play at Miss Havisham’s Manor and he falls in love with her daughter, Estella, who gives him the aspiration to become a gentleman to win her love. He then receives his great

Considering the meaning of inheritance, most people might argue that money is the best inheritance that they can get. Although money takes huge parts of human’s life, there are many values that are more valuable than just money. The novel, Great Expectation, starts with early life of Pip, an orphan who is raised by his sister and brother in law. Growing a dream of becoming a blacksmith like his brother-in-law, Pip was innocent and fulfilled with his plain and the peaceful life. However, after Pip meets several life-changing events, such as meeting with Miss Havisham and becoming a great heritor, Pip confronts with many inner conflicts and adapts to the new circumstances, which allow him to become a more sophisticated gentleman while losing the true happiness and pure heart. Pip significantly contributes to the several themes of this novel. Over the course of Great Expectations, Pip matures by learning that soon got soon gone, that one should take care of people who are easily thought to be taken for granted, and that the gentleman’s quality is not decided by one’s wealthy and fame.

The novel “Great Expectations” describes how our main character Pip attempts to achieve great things for himself, while still holding on to his morals and values he was raised upon. Pip’s main conflict is between himself and

These conditions make themselves felt in almost every part of Great Expectations. Pip’s sudden rise from country blacksmith to city gentleman forces him to move from one social extreme to another while dealing with the strict rules and expectations that governed Victorian England.

People in society do not give enough credit to those who raised them. We take advantage of all the sacrifices and love they give to us as children. They are the reason we are who we are today. In the novel, Great Expectations, Dickens tells the story of Pip, the protagonist, suffered through emotional abuse during his childhood and how he does not understand the importance of the good people in his life. As a young adult, he moves to London, where he encounters people from many walks of life, businessmen, convicts and lawyers who influence him in many ways both positive and negative. Pip is negatively influenced by the powerful women in his childhood, which leads to his ungrateful and stagnant character; eventually, when he loses his fortune that he realizes that one of the good people from his childhood, Biddy, did have a positive influence on him but he did not realize it at the time.

Throughout Great Expectations, Pip provides a prime example of the choices one can make that differentiate between a good, moral life and immoral living. Certain factors in his life sway him between the good life at the forge and the selfish life at the Satis House, and in turn London. His unselfishness and satisfaction could lead him to a righteous life, but he believes that material wealth will bring upon the moral life, demonstrating the greed and selfishness that leads him to an unethical life.

Happiness is a feeling that many people strive to achieve. However, many people do not realize the lengths it takes to fully attain satisfaction; in fact, many are blind. Throughout Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations, readers see a view of reality that is twisted and misshapen based on the distinct experiences each character faces. Dickens portrays each character from a viewpoint that is different and influenced by many factors throughout the story. Each character's interpretation of happiness is distinct, and many of them are deceived into believing that they have found happiness when in reality, it has alluded them.

Havisham, though she acquired a large portion of wealth, Dickens has wealth ultimately turn her fate in another direction; her brother and fiancé conspire against her to steal her money, and she is left heart-broken at the altar, shutting herself in the Satis House. Her relatives only visit her in the hopes of receiving her wealth in her will when she passes on, but she pays them no mind. Her only goal is to exact revenge on Pip to represent her revenge on all "men" for what her brother and fiancé did. As Terci writes in [journal name], Miss Havisham is used as the primary figure by Dickens to "[criticize] the values of the upper class to portray its ‘real’ face to his middle and lower class readers" (167), that behind their unusual habits and amount of ownership and wealth, there is decay, happiness is simply

In Charles Dickens' novel, Great Expectations, Dickens conveys the idea that wealth leads to isolation. The novel begins when Pip, a young orphan, encounters an escaped convict in a cemetery. Despite Pip's efforts to help this terrifying personage, the convict is still captured and transported to Australia. Pip is then introduced into the wealthy yet decaying home of Miss Havisham where he meets Estella, a little girl who takes pleasure in tormenting Pip about his rough hands and future as a blacksmith. As Pip continues to visit Miss Havisham's house, he becomes more and more dissatisfied with his guardian, Joe, a hard working blacksmith, and his childhood friend Biddy. Several