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Pip’s Corrupted Wealth Money can change anybody and Pip was no exception. When Pip was poor he truly wanted to be a gentlemen, he had great expectations for himself. His family’s poverty brought him shame and he was blinded by the way he began to treat his family. Pip learns the price for money is not worthwhile and he loses himself on the journey to becoming a true gentlemen. When Pip gets to witness the life of the upper class, he meets the stunning Estella. He is then quite embarrassed of his financial situation and it becomes his goal to impress her. However, he has nothing to impress her with. Estella gives Pip the motivation to become a gentlemen by calling him “ . . . nothing but a common lower-class boy!” (20). Pip just so happens to come into wealth and goes off to London, leaving his dishonorable family behind, thinking about his future as a gentlemen. …show more content…

Ever since Pip moved to London he is now content with the fact that he is a “true gentleman”. Pip’s ego continues to grow with the amount of money he is acquiring. However, the person that this truly takes a toll on is Joe. Joe never got the respect he deserved from Pip. 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. Therefore, his pride keeps him from giving the utmost respect to

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With the majority of his family dead, and his abusive sister acting as his guardian, Pip was deprived of most things a child needs to thrive emotionally. He is constantly put down by his sister and told that he is worthless and a burden. The one bright spot amidst all the gloom was Joe. Joe protected Pip from a good majority of his sister’s beatings and did his best to support him. Before Pip leaves for Satis house, he seems fairly content with his lot in life because he has never known a life outside of it.

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In London Pip gets attention or being wealthy, this comes with the reputation of elegance and maturity, yet when Joe visits, these connotations get wrecked. Pip uses diction to portray his annoyance with Joe being there. He uses small details to pick apart Joe as immature and not qualified to have money. As Pip describes how Joe playing with his hat is childish during their conversation: Indeed, it demanded from him a constant attention, and a quickness of eye and hand very like that exacted by wicket-keeping. He made extraordinary play with it, and showed the greatest skill; now rushing at it and catching it neatly as it dropped; now, merely stopping it midway, beating it up… (Dickens

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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

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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

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Pip becomes more grateful to his friends. After leaving them his attitude changes towards his friends as he now knows what his friends have done for him and is sad because he did not do anything to show his gratitude to them. When pip leaves his friends, he is changed by their parting.

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Moreover, Pip’s character has become superficial and materialistic in contrast to his younger self; at the beginning of the novel, Pip once “had believed in the forge as the glowing road to manhood and independence”. the ‘belief’ in an idea, in this case the forge, is to have faith and to trust in something without any doubt, Pip as a young boy believed in the forge and what it symbolized and put the notion of it on a pedestal. He idolised the thought of becoming a blacksmith, just as he had always idolised and admired Joe. This stark contrast between

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Pip falls in love with Estella. After that everything Pip does in his life is for Estella and only her. Pip receives a fortune from a secret donor to pursue an education, he then continues to obtain wealth, success and high social class in the hopes of earning the love of Estella. Motifs and Symbols-

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The mere thought of money has started to turn Pip into a materialistic person which leads to him going down a bad path. Pip starts to notice how he is different from everyone who has money he says “I wished Joe had been rather more genteelly brought up, and then I should have been so too” (Dickens 56). This marks Pip trying to think about how he could change the people and other factors around him in order for him to blend in well with the high class society. Pip says that “I took the opportunity of being alone in the court-yard, to look at my coarse hands and my common boots” (Dickens 55). Pip begins to actually want to change his appearance in order to leave his old self behind, and even goes so far as to be ashamed of Joe, even though Joe treats him with nothing but love.

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Pip is becoming more and more ashamed of who he is and where he was brought up,as he is learning his new habits. Pip starts feeling ashamed when Wemmick starts showing him his rings. Next, when Joe comes to visit in London he was very out of place with all the fellow gentleman. Another time he felt ashamed was when him and Herbert joined the club. I believe Pip was ashamed when he saw Wemmicks rings because when he lived with his sister and Joe he couldn 't afford anything to that extent.

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From him, Pip also learns and develops the character of goodness, simplicity together with honest. However, Joe is a little bit cowardly in that it is his wife who has a decisive say in family affairs and he often suffers beatings and receive scolding from his wife. It deserves to be mentioned that Joe has kept his good character from beginning to end in the novel. 2.2.2 Pip’s Sister Pip’s sister, Mrs. Joe Gargery is a wife of blacksmith, who is been

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We see this where Pip says “ I had insensibly begin to notice their effect upon myself and those around me. Their influence on my own character I disguised from my recognition as much as possible, but I knew very well that it was not all good” (Dickens,213). Pip realizes that he changed a lot while he tried to become a gentleman. Pip let people like Miss Havisham influence him and he realizes that it was a big mistake. He could've been happier if he stayed at the forge with Joe.

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When Pip finds out that Biddy and Joe are getting married he is shocked but happy. He says “Dear Joe, I hope you will have children to love, and that some little fellow will sit in this chimney corner of a winter night, who may remind you of another little fellow gone out of it forever” (532). Pip finally gives Joe the admiration and love he deserves by blessing him and his new life with Biddy. He wants Joe to be happy for the rest of his life and be surrounded by people who love him.

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Additionally, Pip's immaturity is truly evident when he asks Biddy if she could teach Joe everything she knows because he is ashamed of his lack of knowledge. Lastly, as Pip comes into his expectations, he is blessed with more and more money. Pip receives an endless supply of money which causes him to spend munificently. He spends all of his money on self-centered luxuries to impress the other young rich gentlemen.

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If I could have kept him away by paying money, I certainly would have paid money (231). Earlier in Pip’s childhood he used to respect Joe and appreciate how kind he was. Now that he is in the “upper class” he thinks that Joe is in a much lower class than him. The thought that Pip would pay money to keep Joe away from him shows how much of a snob he has become ever since he has entered the “upper class”. Pip has also become more arrogant and picky to others.

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