Great Expectations Suffering Essay

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Recommended: Critically analyze the character of pip as depicted in great expectations

In Great Expectations several of the many character are required to suffer. Charles Dickens was one of the best writers back in his day. He wrote a book called Great Expectations, a book we still read to this day. The book has several complex characters within it that are put through many different situations that cause them to suffer different ways at different times throughout the book. The great mastermind behind all of this is the one and only Charles Dickens.
In Great Expectations the character Pip is one of the many characters that suffer through the book. One situation that Pip suffers in is the fact the loves Estella and she doesn’t even care on bit about her. All in the book he is trying to show Estella that he truly loves her and …show more content…

She has been put is some bad situations, like where she likes Pip but he wants Estella more than Biddy even though Biddy is so much more of a wholesome person. An additional suffering that Biddy has is that she has Orlick, a much older guy coming onto her like some creep. When Biddy is left homeless by her father Joe allows her to come and live there which is nice, but not to be left for dead by her dad. Plus when she starts to live there and Mrs. Joe gets her head knocked loose Biddy has to step up and be the motherly figure of the house and take care of Mrs. Joe and all the things she did.
Joe is an ever-loving, disrespected, and blown off character, he is forced to suffer by varices things on being is to have a son like Pip who treats Joe as some low level commoner. Which is a horrible way to treat anybody but through all of the crap Pip gives him he still loves Pip. Then to make things worse Pip decides to leave Joe for London after Joe gave up his life to marry the mean Mrs. Joe to sort of save Pip and make sure he had a good life. When Mrs. Joes died it just ripped Joe apart by the fact that he knew that she treated him bad, he still loved

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