Pip in Great Expectations

Abu shahid

Introduction

Great Expectations is the story of Pip, an orphan boy adopted by a

blacksmith's family, Pip lives with his older sister and her husband.

One day, while visiting his parents' grave, Pip encounters a convict,

Magwitch, who he helps escape by providing him with a file and food.

Pip is hired as a playmate for Miss Havisham's adopted daughter,

Estella, who he falls in love with. Pip finds out that he has a

benefactor and assumes that it is Miss Havisham. He moves to the city

of London with great expectations of increasing his social status.

During this change, Pip neglects his friendships with Biddy and Joe.

As time passes, Pip meets his true benefactor, Magwitch, who made a

fortune after being exiled from England. Magwitch wanted to repay Pip

for helping him escape earlier in the novel. Pip in return for the

large fortune must keep Magwitch in hiding near a river, since he is

forbidden in England. Pip learns that Estella, who he has long

obsessed over, has married Drummle. Suddenly, Miss Havisham's estate

goes on fire, and Pip bravely saves Miss Havisham. It is then revealed

that Magwitch is Estella's father. In an attempt to flee, Magwitch is

caught, but dies before his conviction. Pip falls ill, and is nursed

back to health by Joe, who marries Biddy after the death of Mrs. Joe.

It is also revealed that Estella is educated by suffering, and the two

go off on their separate ways.

The story is written in a first person account, and all events in the

story are told from the point of view of the adult Pip. In this essay

I am going to write about the two characters Miss Havisham and

Magwitch. I am going to write about the two extracts of the

characters.

The young boy Pip went to the grave yard to visit the graves of his

parents, while he was there he meets magwitch. Dickens uses strong

language to describe the setting. He describes the graveyard as “distant

savage lair from which the wind was rushing with the sea”, “bleak

place overgrown with nettles”.

Now Dickens made the reader feel uncomfortable and scared and he also

made the reader imagine the setting very dark and dull. He also

described Miss Havisham’s room using strong words “had no brightness”

now Dickens made the reader fell more scared and uncomfortable.

Dickens also describes magwitch. Magwitch is described as “ a man

soaked in water”, “lamed by stones” and cut by flints, who shivered

and growled.

To Pip Magwitch is a terrifying character. He describes him as” a

fearful man, all in coarse grey, with great iron on his leg.