Great Expectations: Self Conflict

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from those who truly love him.


As Pip begins his progression toward being a gentleman, he is
faced with a world that appears frightening, a commercial world of
protocol and etiquette that Pip blindly sees as the answer to the
shortcomings he sees in himself. He meets a man by the name of Magwitch,
who he immediately refuses to see as anything but a cold criminal, one
inadequate by his new-found standards. He would later review these
feelings and see that underneath the petty judgement Pip gives to the man,
there rests a caring man, that Pip comes to respect. This revelation would
surface again in the third stage.

At the end of stage one, Pip saw Joe as coarse and uncouth, he
began to look down upon those he once admired. In the final stage, Pip
reflects on these feelings and realizes that his trivial desires for a life
worthy of Estella's approval have shielded him from the true value of
having loving and constant friends.

His values and morals did not allow ...

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