Kyle Carson Mrs. Santana AP Literature and Composition 15 September 2014 Bildungsroman In the novel, Great Expectations (1860-1861), Charles Dickens creates a character, Pip, to elucidate the numerous false expectations of life. Dickens illustrates these false expectations through Pip’s ambitious and hopeful lifestyle by utilizing dramatic irony and a series of epiphanies. Dickens’s purpose in this coming of age novel is to bring light to Pip’s personality traits in order to show that life is full of falsities that are detrimental to the moral development of children growing up with no, or poor parental guidance. Pip, the protagonist of the novel, learns to be a gentleman and obtains a large fortune with an unknown benefactor. After some