How Does Pip Change Throughout The Novel

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People are a lot like butterflies. Butterflies start out as caterpillars and progressively change throughout their life. People are like this too, but we do not start out as caterpillars. we start as humans and stay humans. The thing that changes us are other people. Just like in Great Expectations, the novel by Charles Dickens. Pip, the main character, is influenced by various women and starts to change from the influences they have given him. The first woman that really influenced Pip was Estella. Ever since Pip was a young boy she has been imperious towards him. “ With this boy! Why, he is just a common laboring boy!”(Dickens 33) Estella was telling Miss Havisham that she does not want to play with a common boy like Pip. Ever since Pip …show more content…

Biddy always wants what is good for Pip and always helps him the right decisions. For example, Pip needed help deciding if he wanted to be a gentleman or not. Biddy helps Pip by asking of he wants to be a gentleman because he wants to gain Estella over or to spite her. Pip does not want Biddy inferring either of those accusations, even though they are correct. She tell shim that if he is doing it to gain her over, Estella is not worth gaining. If it is to spite her that it would be better to do it independently with caring words. (Dickens 66) She also helps Pip by telling him to go visit Joe whenever he comes back home. That helps Pip because he is afraid to visit Joe when Joe has done so much for him and Pip has done so little in return. Another examples when Pip goes home to ask Biddy’s hand in marriage and she is already married to Joe. This tells Pip that not everyone is going to wait on him and he needs to realize what real life is. The final woman that helps influence Pip is Miss Havisham. She is the one who pushes Pip so hard to love Estella. “ Love her, love her, love her! If she favors you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces—and as it gets older and stronger it will tear deeper—love her, love her, love her! Hear me, Pip! I adopted her to be loved. I bred her and educated her to be loved. I developed her into what she is, that she might be loved. Love her!” “ I’ll

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