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Great Expectations Essay
In Charles Dickens’s “Great Expectations,” Miss Havisham manipulates Pip through silence, which is like lying, and ends up causing a lot of problems.
Picture believing someone was doing something really kind for you, only to find out that wasn't true. That's what happened to Pip in 'Great Expectations'. He thought Miss Havisham, a rich, peculiar lady, was his secret benefactor. She gave him money and even promised him a job, while letting him believe she was the one helping him out behind the scenes. It's like when your parents leave presents under the Christmas tree and let you believe they're from Santa. The weird thing is, Miss Havisham never actually said she was his benefactor. In Pip's own words, "She had adopted Estella, she had as good as adopted me, and it could not fail to be her intention to bring …show more content…

That's why Pip thought Miss Havisham wanted to help him.
But just because Miss Havisham didn't say she was Pip's benefactor, doesn't mean she was not lying. It's like if you see your friend eating a cookie, and you ask who ate the last cookie, and your friend just stays silent. Technically, they didn't lie, but they weren’t telling the truth.
That's what Miss Havisham did, she let Pip believe something that wasn't true. This type of lie hurt Pip because he acted in ways based on what he thought was true.
Pip felt too astonished to think for at least an hour, and it wasn't until he had regained composure enough to think clearly that he realized just how crushed he was and how completely destroyed the ship he had been traveling in had become. He was merely at the Satis House as a comfort, a sting for the starving relatives, and a model with a mechanical heart to train on when no other training was available. Those were the first smarts he had. Miss Havisham's intentions for him were all mere fantasies. Pip was not meant for Estella. (Dickens,

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