Able Magwitch is an evil man they call “The Convict” in the story he is exactly that, a convict. A convict is someone declared as to be guilty of a criminal offense by the verdict of a jury or the decision of a judge in a court of law, according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Another thing you might relate Magwitch to is a “witch”, which is a person who can cast spells on belongings and people’s souls, this is also in a sense what Able Magwitch does to Pip without Pip even knowing it. Magwitch is a man who has found himself as a horrible man locked up in prison with no sign of a good life ahead of himself. When reading the book Great Expectations by Charles Dickens you read about a boy named Pip and live his life with him throughout the
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It is later that Pip is working on a night and a black shadow walks up and Pip asks him “what floor” and he begins a conversation in which the shadow knows the details of Pip’s inheritance. We know up to this point Pip is not allowed to look for the anonymous donor and he is not allowed to ask about the person, it is at this point the anonymous donor, Able Magwitch, discloses himself to Pip. Magwitch tells Pip “Look’ee here, Pip. I’m your second father. You’re my son more to me nor any son. I’ve put away money, only for you to spend. When I was a hired-out shepherd in a solitary hut, not seeing no faces but faces of sheep till I half forgot wot men’s and women’s faces wos like, I see yourn.” (Dickens 320). This is where Magwitch begins to abuse Pip mentally by claiming him as his son, of which Pip has never had much of a father figure. Pip seems to be stunned and now feels like he owes Magwitch something, all of which is unacceptably wrong as the money was given to Pip and Pip should not have to work to owe any of it for any reason aware or unaware. This is where Magwitch has cast his spell by making Pip feel terrible and using Pip and the money he has been given as a prop to really deprive Pip …show more content…
“If Compeyson were alive and should discover his return, I could hardly doubt the consequence. That, Compeyson stood in mortal fear of him, neither of the two could know much better than I; and that, any such man as that man had been described to be, would hesitate to release himself for good from a dreaded enemy by the safe means of becoming an informer, was scarcely to be imagined.” (Dickens 353). It is now when they decide their only option was “flight” or to leave the area. They do this on a row boat out into the river surly to catch the next steamer and escape unharmed, just as the steam boat they were after came into sight another boat arrived and a man declared to him that he had a “convict” on board and called upon Magwitch, the escapee, to surrender and for Pip to give Magwitch up. This is just as the Hamburg steamer is coming upon them and Pip does not know what to do as he has been held hostage at mind to Magwitch all this time. In this moment, both “convicts” one Magwitch, and the other being his enemy, both disappear as well as Pip’s boat as he is now on the other row boat. This happens all in an instant which provides that Magwitch might have cast a spell on his enemy launching him into the river and he himself might have taken off in the row boat. This is not the case,
It is later that Pip is working on a night and a black shadow walks up and Pip asks him “what floor” and he begins a conversation in which the shadow knows the details of Pip’s inheritance. We know up to this point Pip is not allowed to look for the anonymous donor and he is not allowed to ask about the person, it is at this point the anonymous donor, Able Magwitch, discloses himself to Pip. Magwitch tells Pip “Look’ee here, Pip. I’m your second father. You’re my son more to me nor any son. I’ve put away money, only for you to spend. When I was a hired-out shepherd in a solitary hut, not seeing no faces but faces of sheep till I half forgot wot men’s and women’s faces wos like, I see yourn.” (Dickens 320). This is where Magwitch begins to abuse Pip mentally by claiming him as his son, of which Pip has never had much of a father figure. Pip seems to be stunned and now feels like he owes Magwitch something, all of which is unacceptably wrong as the money was given to Pip and Pip should not have to work to owe any of it for any reason aware or unaware. This is where Magwitch has cast his spell by making Pip feel terrible and using Pip and the money he has been given as a prop to really deprive Pip …show more content…
“If Compeyson were alive and should discover his return, I could hardly doubt the consequence. That, Compeyson stood in mortal fear of him, neither of the two could know much better than I; and that, any such man as that man had been described to be, would hesitate to release himself for good from a dreaded enemy by the safe means of becoming an informer, was scarcely to be imagined.” (Dickens 353). It is now when they decide their only option was “flight” or to leave the area. They do this on a row boat out into the river surly to catch the next steamer and escape unharmed, just as the steam boat they were after came into sight another boat arrived and a man declared to him that he had a “convict” on board and called upon Magwitch, the escapee, to surrender and for Pip to give Magwitch up. This is just as the Hamburg steamer is coming upon them and Pip does not know what to do as he has been held hostage at mind to Magwitch all this time. In this moment, both “convicts” one Magwitch, and the other being his enemy, both disappear as well as Pip’s boat as he is now on the other row boat. This happens all in an instant which provides that Magwitch might have cast a spell on his enemy launching him into the river and he himself might have taken off in the row boat. This is not the case,