How Does Pip Change Throughout The Novel

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Phillip Pirrip, also known as Pip, is a character who we meet in the beginning of Charles Dickens classic novel, Great Expectations. He is introduced as a young orphan, who lives with his abusive sister, Mrs. Joe, and her husband Joe Gargery, a blacksmith. As the story progresses, Pip grows into a young man and you see how every choice he makes affects his future. Every trial and tribulation, every person he meets, and every expectation changes him as a person, whether that be for the good, or the bad. Charles Dickens exhibits how Pip is finding who he is as an individual through his long journey in life and opportunities that he never thought he would have. Some of the best lessons learned came from his experiences and those who influenced …show more content…

Magwitch never forgot what Pip did for him that day and seemed to relate it to when he used to steal things as a child, such as his earliest memory of stealing turnips. Magwitch also teaches Pip that you should not judge people by their appearances, but instead get to know them first. When Pip is first reunited with Magwitch, he is disgusted and he refuses to believe that he is his benefactor, after a while Pip warms up to him and ends up finding out that he is a caring and sincere person. If Pip had never met him that day, you could easily say that his life would have taken a very different …show more content…

Not long into their marriage, Drummel passed away. In the end, Pip learned what true and blinding love really is and Mrs. Havisham taught Pip that money can not buy happiness, not to hold grudges, not to be cold-hearted, but to just love.
Another character who shaped Pip’s life was Herbert. Pip first met Herbert at the Satis house, having a silly little fight with him, where Pip quite easily beat Herbert (Pale young Gentleman.)
“My heart failed me when I saw him squaring at me with every demonstration of mechanical nicety, and eyeing my anatomy as if he were minutely choosing his bone. I never have been so surprised in my life as I was when I let out the first blow, and saw him lying on his back, looking up at me with a bloody nose and his face exceedingly foreshortened.” (page 84)
Herbert was at the Satis house for the same reason Pip was, Mrs. Havisham was playing games with him. Herbert would not have it, he thought Estella was rude and annoying and he did not fall for her. Then, when Pip goes to London, he and Herbert meet again. They are roommates, Herbert being Mr. Pocket’s son, who is Pips tutor. Even from the beginning Herbert comes

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