The Great Gatsby Lying Is Good

301617-Great Expectations Essay Growing up, the term do not lie and to tell the truth is very prominent. In the bible do not lie is repeated. It is in the ten commandments as “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour.”. The book Great Expectations demonstrates on how lying is considered, and always is considered wrong. There are characters who get caught lying, and then there are characters who are caught up in the lie. As well as there are characters who do not lie. Such as with Pip. When Pip comes back home from Miss Havisham’s house, he tells elaborate lies about what he did there to Joe, Mrs. Joe, and Mr. Pumblechook. Since no one had been inside of the house, Pips lies were believed, although Joe had a slight idea that the story Pip told was not the accurate one. Meanwhile, pips conscious is making him feel guilty. Later he goes down and he tells Joe the …show more content…
The more you work on a lie, the more you lie, the more clear it becomes to others that the truth is not being spoken. Likewise that is the same for the truth aspect, the more the truth is told, the more clear it becomes to others. This quote can relate to Estella. In the terms that she has never lied to Pip. Estella Havisham may just be one of Great Expectations' only honest characters. She's never tried to lead Pip on, but she's been cold and haughty all of her life. She just doesn't care enough to lie. “Do you want me then," said Estella, turning suddenly with a fixed and serious, if not angry, look, "to deceive and entrap you?" (page 393). She has made her point, without lying to anyone.
The characters of Great Expectations can be broken down into groups. There are characters who lie, who get caught up into the lie, and those who do not lie. In which all cases of when there is lying, it is always deemed to be