Great Expectations
Great Expectations
In the society today, many young people are faced with the pressure to fit in. They are willing to go to extreme measures to become someone better, someone that they are not, but there is a cost. Many tend to forget the important things in life, and become focused on "living the dream". The Bildungsroman novel, Great Expectations, was written by Charles Dickens. It is satirizing the social classes of the Victorian age, which consist of people who are close minded on the idea of being a "gentleman". In each stage of Pip's expectations, Dickens uses the character of Pip to show that when one is blinded by desire, one tends to forget the important things in life that ...
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thinking to himself, "Within a single year all of this has changed. Now it was all coarse and common, and I would not have had Miss Havisham and Estella see it on any account" (103). Pip is blinded by the desire to become a gentleman. He becomes determined to be someone he is not. He is ashamed and unsatisfied with the simple life he has lived in, causing him to lose sight of the key elements of life. Pip becomes ungrateful of his loving friends and family which reveals his true colors; he is more materialistic than compassionate. Pip shows he is unappreciative towards kind Joe by wanting to "make Joe less ignorant and common" and make him "worthier of [Pip's] society" (105). Joe is the only person in Pip's life that shows real, unconditional love to Pip. However, once Pip's eyes are opened to the real world, he becomes focused only on the fact that he needs to be a gentleman. He has a one track mind, and ignores Joe's kind deeds. Pip fails to acknowledge that Joe is the true ...
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not to visit him anymore. Pip believes he has become too good for poor Joe. His only thought is being of a higher class and being socially accepted, so he will not let anyone stand in his way. In a conversation with Biddy, Pip mentions that he will come to visit Joe often, after the death of Mrs. Joe. However, he knows that he will probably end up neglecting them again, and just gives Biddy false hopes. This shows how Pip does not consider or care about anybody's feelings anymore. Pip thinks to himself, "Once more, the mists were rising as I walked away. If they disclosed to me, as I suspect they did, that I should not come back, and that Biddy was quite right, all I can say ...
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