Pip in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations

Pip in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations

From the first page in the book you can tell that Pip is a

good-natured person who has a great imagination and you learn to like

him as a character. The fact that he gave Magwitch the food that he

asked for in the very first chapter of the book tells you that he

always keeps his word and the. It is like Dickens is trying to get you

to like Pip from an early stage of reading the book. Get you to like

the caring, good-hearted, willingness of the young Pip. In a way, this

makes Pip's unpredicted rise to a rich gentleman is even more

disturbing for the reader because of the way Pip reacts to his

newfound wealth. Joe had been like a father to Pip. Being a good

friend, supporting him in time of need, and teaching him important

values of life. Biddy taught Pip to read and write and loved Pip. For

Pip to turn his back on these early friends just because of his new

position in society was wrong. The little boy, who is one of the

nicest people, at the first stages of the book, is turned into a

horrible, embarrassing gentleman. It is very ironic that the wealth

Magwitch gave to Pip as a gift to thank him for his act of kindness in

chapter one in the marshes actually diminishes everything that Pip had

in the world already. It eventually makes him unthankful to characters

like Joe and Biddy and makes him embarrassed of his roots.

In my opinion, I think it is the fact that Magwitch gives Pip the

money to help him become a gentleman, that turns him into a kind of

Frankenstein character not the other way round. Pip always dreams of

becoming rich and being a gentleman, but in the end it is obvious that

he does not need this unwanted wealth that drives him forwards in

society but backwards in the real world, where other things count. The

reader starts to dislike Pip in the book the more he gains and the