The plot is set among marshes in Kent, in London, in the early to mid-1800s. The novel is introduced by the introduction of the hero of the novel Pip who an orphan, who lives his sister & her husband, Joe Gargery, who is the village Blacksmith. The theme Crime, Guilt & Innocence is very much propound in the novel as its first evidence can be traced when he meets an escaped convict in the marshes who forces him to steal some food and a file from Joe’s forge. Mr. Gargery had always been a good friend to Pip. Although, Pip is a young and an innocent boy and has many laudable qualities such as his concern and loyalty towards Joe, he constantly feels guilty with wrongdoing and seems to wrestle in finding his conscience and the idea of innocence
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Joe had gone near the pantry, or out of the room, were only to be equaled by the remorse with which my mind dwelt on what my hands had done.” (Chapter 4); “when the fear of being found out was lifted off me.” (Chapter 6) that he strongly possessed the feeling of guilty inside …show more content…
But meanwhile he neglects Joe, his earliest and best friend who always stayed their when Pip was in any circumstance that he could not get off with, and also Biddy, the girl who had helped him as becoming his first teacher. Pip in other words rapidly turns out to be a snob as he falls in great debts and is unable to pay them off and at that very moment when he turns up to be 21 years old he is left with burden alone when his guardian Mr. Jaggers leave him saying “you and that person will settle your own affairs. When that person disclose, my part in this business will cease and determine. When that person discloses, it will not be necessary for me to know anything about it. And that’s all I have got to say.” (Chapter 35).
And when he turns 23 he is revealed by the fact that his benefactor was none other than his convict whom once he helped during his childhood, he was in a great shock and surprise for he had always been thanking Mrs. Havisham was his benefactor. He when meet his convict after such a long time still the fear was there on his face and in his mind but then he helped the convict to escape from police and at the end when the convict’s relation to Estella is reveled, Pip and Estella learned this lesson the hard way, that the price of finding one’s own worth is the giving up of falls
Joe had gone near the pantry, or out of the room, were only to be equaled by the remorse with which my mind dwelt on what my hands had done.” (Chapter 4); “when the fear of being found out was lifted off me.” (Chapter 6) that he strongly possessed the feeling of guilty inside …show more content…
But meanwhile he neglects Joe, his earliest and best friend who always stayed their when Pip was in any circumstance that he could not get off with, and also Biddy, the girl who had helped him as becoming his first teacher. Pip in other words rapidly turns out to be a snob as he falls in great debts and is unable to pay them off and at that very moment when he turns up to be 21 years old he is left with burden alone when his guardian Mr. Jaggers leave him saying “you and that person will settle your own affairs. When that person disclose, my part in this business will cease and determine. When that person discloses, it will not be necessary for me to know anything about it. And that’s all I have got to say.” (Chapter 35).
And when he turns 23 he is revealed by the fact that his benefactor was none other than his convict whom once he helped during his childhood, he was in a great shock and surprise for he had always been thanking Mrs. Havisham was his benefactor. He when meet his convict after such a long time still the fear was there on his face and in his mind but then he helped the convict to escape from police and at the end when the convict’s relation to Estella is reveled, Pip and Estella learned this lesson the hard way, that the price of finding one’s own worth is the giving up of falls