Pirrip In Charles Dickens Great Expectations

In Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, the protagonist of the story, Philip Pirrip, or more commonly known as Pip, begins the story as a child. He is young and inexperienced and has high expectations of the world, even though his expectations do not seem large at first, as the story progresses, his expectations grow bigger until they finally crash down around him. Pip has strong morals, he knows what is right and wrong, but his expectations are too high to always do the right thing. He wants to achieve the highest goal, and that can be shown through his thoughts of Estella. He meets her through Miss Havisham, who wants them to meet because of her ideals that men deserve to be punish, which results in Miss Havisham teaching Estella to break Pip’s heart. Pip’s realization that …show more content…
Before the pivotal moment, the diction of the work is fast-paced, even when little action is occurring, and Dickens’ focus is mostly on Pip’s life on the outside and not the inside of his life. After his eye-opening discovering about his place in the world, the writing shifts to more inside Pip’s mind as he realizes that Estella is not the primary factor in his life and he is not the primary factor in hers. The writing covers more of the inside of his mind as he discovers more about himself and about the world, like his place in society and his meaning in the world. One of the many themes of Great Expectations is ambition and self improvement, which is shown through Pip and his improvement as he realizes what his ambitions were and why he did not reach them. When the writing shifts to the outside of his life, Pip has more of a chance to evaluate himself and the world as he thinks about what his epiphany has brought to him and how it has benefitted him, and he is able to improve and set new ambitions based on the epiphany. The self improvement also outlines Pip’s shift from youth to maturity during his