Expectations Essay The novel, Great Expectations written by Charles Dickens specifies Pip’s experience through several stages to test his expectations on life struggles. When transitioning through society, Pip becomes oblivious of the meaning of social status and wealth until he falls in love with Estella. His desire for Estella causes him to reject his friends and contradicts his personal values and morals. During the first stage of Great Expectations, Pip is curious and ambitious; As a child, he attempts to achieve his dream of becoming Joe’s apprentice and winning over Estella while sustaining his principles and morals. Losing his parents and brothers around the age of 7 only to be brought up his sister’s hand, Pip envies others like
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Jaggers and Wemmick. Training to become a gentleman to gain Estella’s approval, Pip becomes conceited with his secret benefactor believing to be Miss Havisham. Becoming closer to Herbert Pocket, Pip learns about Havisham’s past. When Herbert tells Pip about Compeyson disappeared without getting any money, Pip exclaimed “I wonder he didn’t marry her and get all the property,” (142). Pip’s perception of the world is revolved around money, and his obsession with wealth is distracting him from the real worth of …show more content…
Pip realizes that the job an individual undertakes characterizes their personality and states “ ‘I am ashamed to say it,’ I returned, ‘and yet it's no worse to say it than to think it. You call me a lucky fellow. Of course i am. I was a blacksmith’s boy but yesterday; I am-what shall I say I am-today’” (194). Pip acknowledges that money can change people considering himself to as a victim and society shouldn’t judge people by their social class/status. When Pip comes to discover his true benefactor, he “remained too stunned to think; and it was not until I (he) began to think, that I (he) began fully to know how wrecked I (he) was, and how the ship in which I (he) had sailed was gone to pieces” (253). When Magwitch gets caught, he is sentenced to death by execution and Pip loses all of his money to pay debts. He redeems himself by returning home to the now married Joe and Biddy and attempts to make amends with everyone especially Estella. Charles Dickens illustrates a bildungsroman, an evolution of the main character’s attitudes and behavior in the progression of the story. In Great Expectations, Pip grows from being sensitive to haughty to wise and understanding. It is said that “Any fool can be happy, It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep” (Barker). Pip, although he is oblivious at first and could be classified as a fool, did
Jaggers and Wemmick. Training to become a gentleman to gain Estella’s approval, Pip becomes conceited with his secret benefactor believing to be Miss Havisham. Becoming closer to Herbert Pocket, Pip learns about Havisham’s past. When Herbert tells Pip about Compeyson disappeared without getting any money, Pip exclaimed “I wonder he didn’t marry her and get all the property,” (142). Pip’s perception of the world is revolved around money, and his obsession with wealth is distracting him from the real worth of …show more content…
Pip realizes that the job an individual undertakes characterizes their personality and states “ ‘I am ashamed to say it,’ I returned, ‘and yet it's no worse to say it than to think it. You call me a lucky fellow. Of course i am. I was a blacksmith’s boy but yesterday; I am-what shall I say I am-today’” (194). Pip acknowledges that money can change people considering himself to as a victim and society shouldn’t judge people by their social class/status. When Pip comes to discover his true benefactor, he “remained too stunned to think; and it was not until I (he) began to think, that I (he) began fully to know how wrecked I (he) was, and how the ship in which I (he) had sailed was gone to pieces” (253). When Magwitch gets caught, he is sentenced to death by execution and Pip loses all of his money to pay debts. He redeems himself by returning home to the now married Joe and Biddy and attempts to make amends with everyone especially Estella. Charles Dickens illustrates a bildungsroman, an evolution of the main character’s attitudes and behavior in the progression of the story. In Great Expectations, Pip grows from being sensitive to haughty to wise and understanding. It is said that “Any fool can be happy, It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep” (Barker). Pip, although he is oblivious at first and could be classified as a fool, did