Pip uses the things he has learned from Magwitch with the people that mattered in his life; including Magwitch. During her recovery, Pip forgave Miss Havisham for the “deeper
(page 446) By the end of the novel, Pip's narrow view on society has broadened through his own experiences. He now knows the dangers and benefits of both money and love, ridding himself of unattainable ideals for both. He learns that social standing is not the most important thing in the world, and that one's honor and integrity are not tied to one's rank. Originally thinking that it was, Pip hurt the people most important to him.
Hes latched on to Pip always wanting to be around him and asking him the craziest questions that Pip rarely has the answer to. One day Pip is sent to the principal's office. This visit is different because the
Pip is the only one who helps Magwitch in his time of struggle, he gives him food to eat and Brandy to drink; most importantly Pip gives him a file to break free of the iron cuffs around his ankles, “But he was down on the rank wet grass, filing at his iron like a madman, and not minding me or minding his own leg, which had an old chafe on it, and was bloody…” (18). From this moment Magwitch feels in debt to Pip and believes that this young boy will be capable of many things, so Magwitch decides to help Pip into his coming of age as gentleman. Pip is unaware that his benefactor is infact the convict he found in the woods many years before. He becomes informed when one night the convict appears at his door to tell him, “Yes, Pip, dear boy, I’ve made a gentleman on you! It’s me
Whose name he learns is Abel Magwitch. This deflates his hope that he is meant for Estella and at first disgusts him, as he knows nothing about what sort of criminal the man is. Despite his disgust and disappointment, the sense of duty that compels Pip to help the convict is a mark of his inner goodness, just as it was when Pip first met him at age seven. After Abel Magwitch, the convict, dies and the Crown confiscates his fortune, Pip, aged 23,[4] understands that good clothes, well-spoken English and a generous allowance do not make one a gentleman. Pip falls ill for several weeks; Joe learns of this and comes to care for him until he can walk on his own.
Pip first learns the effect of money after telling Mr. Trabb, the tailor, he has come into great fortune. When Pip goes to buy a suit, he notices how respectful Mr. Trabb is, “he opened his arms, and took the liberty of touching me on the outside of each elbow” (144). Next, Pumblechook has a new admiration for Pip as he transitions into the upper class. Pip describes that Pumblechook repeatedly wants to shake hands with him when he says, “we shook hands for the hundredth time at least, and he ordered a young carter out of my way…” (148). Pip’s final stop before he departs to his new life is Miss Havishams to say goodbye.
In turn, Pip becomes self-conscious about his own class status, wanting to be enough for his beloved Estella. The need to be enough for Estella soon dictates some of Pip’s decisions later in life. Miss Havisham wants Pip to feel the suffering, betrayal, and loss of love that she had felt when she was abandoned on her wedding
At the end of the day, when I took Pip to the gate, I let him kiss my cheek before he left. I didn’t love him, but I suddenly realized that he was not the man that I would like to torment. In the next few months, Pip did still come to the Satis. He sometimes walks Miss Havisham, chat with her, or play in front of
Although, he turns out to be the one who teaches Pip how to be the gentlemen he always wanted to be. Pip did not use his money accordingly like Joe would. He just threw away the money that was so graciously given to him by Magwitch who worked hard for it. Pip is not happy when he finds out where his money is from. He is disgusted by the fact that his money has come from a convict.
No matter how far someone wanders from home, they will always remember where they came from and find their way back there. When Pip was seven years old, he loved everything about his life, that is until he met Estella and Miss Havisham. They came from a higher social class and made Pip realize just how little he knew about the world and social classes. When he was given the opportunity to leave his childhood home and move to London to become a gentleman he jumps at the opportunity to change himself to prove to Estella that he is worthy of her. Pip wandered around London for numerous years lost and unhappy with how his life turned out.
During Pip and the convicts first interaction, Pip had been threatened and physically harassed by the convict. When the convict returns many years after their meeting on the marshes, Pip thinks of him as a wild animal: “The abhorrence in which I held the man , the dread I had of him, the repugnance with which I shrank from him, could not have been exceeded if he had been some terrible beast” (773). The way they had first met had been incredibly unpleasant and rather scarring for Pip, something he had clearly not forgotten over the years. Remembering how the convict had treated him in the past; demanding Pip retrieve food and a file, threatening to kill him and shaking him upside down. Pip is terrified to be alone
luckily for pip, the police knock on the door searching for the convict, and ask for Joe's help. Pip also goes along, but he is still fearful because when the convict is found he might give pip away. throughout this whole scene pip feels lots of guilt and fear for his actions. this is one main reason of his bad choices leading to a punishment.
Through her attempts she replaces her daughter’s heart with ice and breaks young men’s hearts. In Dickens’ bildungsroman Great Expectations, Pip and Miss Havisham’s morally ambiguous characterization helps develop the theme, that one needs to learn to be resilient. The internal struggles that Pip experiences through the novel, reveal his displeasure to his settings and
Although Pip does not know the identity of his benefactor, he keeps in his mind that Miss Havisham is his benefactor. Pip thinks that she is there to raise him to become a gentleman so he can marry Estella. Pip's thoughts as to who he wants his secret benefactor to be shows a sign of immaturity. Additionally, when Pip starts learning to become a gentleman, he becomes mean to Joe and Biddy because they are much different to his new lifestyle. When Joe visits, Pip is snobbish to him because he is not behaving properly.
Pip was also injured in the process demonstrating how revenge harms the victim and the seeker. In the end, Orlick never fulfilled his revenge by trying to kill Pip. Instead, Pip asked, “‘Is it Pumblechook’s house that has been broken into, then?’‘That’s it, Pip,’ said Joe… ‘But he knowed Orlick, and Orlick’s in the county jail’”(497).
