Pip’s Character Change in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations
Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens is a compelling story rich in
friendship, love and fortune. The main character, Pip, is a dynamic
character that undergoes many changes through the course of the book
and throughout this analysis, the character Pip, will be identified
and his gradual change through the story will be quoted and explained.
The main character, Pip, is a gentle character. His traits include
humbleness, kindness, and lovingness and these traits are most likely
the cause of his childhood poverty and appreciating life where it
stands. In the beginning of the story, Pip is a mild mannered little
boy who goes on with his own humble life but this changes as he meets
Magwitch, a thief and future benefactor. Pip’s kindness goes out to
help the convict, Magwitch when he gives food and clothing to him.
Magwitch tells Pip that he’ll never forget his kindness and will
remember Pip always and forever and this is the beginning of Pip’s
dynamic change. Throughout the novel of Great Expectations, the
character Pip, gradually changes from a kind and humble character to a
character that is bitter, then snobbish and finally turns into the
kind and loving character which he was at the beginning of the story
as he remembers those who really loved him (Joe Gargery, Biddy etc).
I will begin my analysis of Pip by selecting quotes from Great
Expectations to show the change in his dynamic character
“My fathers family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Phillip,
my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more
explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip,...
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...e, I saw the shadow of no parting from
her.”
This shows that Pip has finally cleared up his thoughts in life and it
shows that after everything he has been through, Pip finally reaches
his goal.
In conclusion when commenting on Pip’s dynamic character change,
earlier in his life, he had changed from an innocent, caring boy into
an arrogant young man as a result of his non-realistic hopes and
expectations. However, when those expectations come to an end, so do
his undesirable traits, as he is shown to be a good person
I believe Charles Dickens novel writing is amazing and despite not
liking the book at first, when constantly analysing each page etc, I
believe the story was cleverly written and Pip’s turn around in
character is very interesting, as analysed above in this essay.
Charles Dickens is a genius!
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