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
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In Chapter 12, Joe behaves abnormally after coming back from Miss Havisham’s place and receiving twenty-five pounds from her as Pip’s wage. However honest and artless Joe was before, he is for sure dramatically different after the trip to Miss Havisham’s, which makes me wonder what might possibly cause this extreme change to happen (my question). I first thought that since the author has portrayed the lady’s mansion as a ghostly and deserted place where Pip has even once saw a ghost, maybe it’s the place that has caused this change in Joe. In the book, Joe hypocritically flatters Mrs. Joe, who is angry by the fact that the lady invites Joe to the mansion and not her, by making up greetings to Mrs. Joe from the lady, who in fact may not
Her way of coping the heartbreak was to build a girl to break mens hearts. This girl happens to be Estella, Pip’s dream girl. Miss Havisham leurs Pip by having him come to her house to learn how to be a gentlemen and to do that he has to interact with Estella. It is evident that she has bad intentions
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.
