Great Expectations Rhetorical Analysis

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It is without deceivement that one who dreams of a better life would always think that wealth must commence hand in hand with happiness, it is in Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations that a contradiction between an otherwise fascist fact would arise within the life of a boy named Pip. Though before speaking by terms of malevolence towards wealth, a positive shadow must be lain upon such matters. For had it not been for this loitering sum of shillings bestowed upon Pip, the boy would of never found it within him to help those around him he perceives as needy. As it is with an earnest respect that man finds comfort under the drapes of self-improvement by actions done unto others, a relation to this expected psychological diagnostic is perceived when Pip “did really …show more content…
With not a doubt in his mind, Pip not only subconsciously reverts his views of the people from his past, he too realizes his inferiority to Miss Havisham by means of her preconceived wealth. For in this epic, Miss Havisham would shove Pip down an enchanted rabbit hole of derision that would only draw despondency from her spell like demeanor when explaining to the ever so changing Pip to “love [Estella], love her, love her” (Dickens 750). It is with these actions that Pip would begin to mold to the cast set forth by a woman without a single benevolent bone in her body, it is only then that with Pips beliefs it is she who granted him his fortune, that he would tune his mind to the frequency of utter regret and misfortune. Whether be it Pips newly discovered self-loath, or his demeanor of corruption ingrained in his mind by surroundings of darkness, the wealth Pip is magically granted does not aid him in any way, rather, it sets him back by means of unachievable

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