Pip in "great expectations"

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  • Created by: Fidele14
  • Created on: 28-04-18 09:30

sympathetic

unrealistic

  • he helps magwitch on the marshes, feels sorry for Miss Havisham and worries about joe he also helps Herbert set up a business.
  • (evidence) "...when i handed him the file...it occurred to me he would have tried to eat it..." chapter 3
  • (analysis) pip thinks about Magwitch rather than himself and provides magwitch with food and a file
  • pip starts to develop romantic ideas about her and his future and is found daydreaming a lot.
  • (evidence) "whenever i watched the vessels with their white sails...i somehow thought of Miss Havisham and Estella.." chapter 15
  • Pip associates them with signs of freedom: sails, clouds, water and sunlight. but this is not the case as they're surrounded by darkness in their home as there is no sunlight

Development (Growth & change)

passionate

  • pip changes throughout the play as he was loving and kind in the beginning of the novel but as he gets ambitious and wants to become a gentleman he derails and turns into a snob disowning and making fun of Joe and Biddy. towards the end of the novel pip often reverts back to himself once he finds out who his benefactor and starts to help other people rather than himself.
  • Pip stands up for what he believes in (pursues his love for Estella)
  • (evidence) "i loved her against reason, against promise, against peace..." chapter 29
  • this shows that pip knows he may be fooling himself but he cannot help being in love with Estella

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