In Great Expectations, there are two completely different endings versions. The ¨official¨ ending is when Pip and Estella meet at Miss Havisham's house and they run away to be together. The version before the other version was official, Pip and Estella have a small conservation, and they go their separate ways. After everything that Pip did for Estella, she still didn't think he was worthy enough and she marries another man who didn't care for her. I prefer the earlier version because it's more realistic since Pip has grown into a different person, and he realized that he went through so much trouble, and it still wasn't enough. Miss Havisham raised Estella to use people, especially men, because men have been in and out of Miss Havisham's life. In reality, the earlier version would …show more content…
After he went experienced for the love of Estella, they reunite and decided to be together. ¨...I saw no shadow of another parting from her.¨ Nothing else was going to separate them because they went through hell and now they finally rest together. This ending is expected to be a ¨happily ever after¨ ending. Pip represents the prince who was trying his best to fight the barriers to get his princess, Estella. The novel's title includes expectations, the audience would expected them to be together because thats all that Pip wanted in life. When a person works for what they wants, they'll eventually get it. That's what Pip did and he did get Estella in this ending. He went through massive trouble to win Estella's love, and in the reader's eyes, he would be crazy if he didn't because he almost got killed and everything he did would go to waste. All that happened to Estella, she got married and it was the waste of her time because it didn't work out, and she could of saved herself some heartache. Although Pip experienced more pain than Estella, they both had to go through something so the universe can put
when Magwich tells him that he did it all by himself Pip realises that he now has no chance. with Estella. The amount of tension in the chapter has gone down to barely any. thing. I'm not sure what to do.
The first time Pip acknowledges the thought that him and Estella are not meant to be together is when he came to know that Magwitch is his benefactor, not Miss Havisham. Pip finds out knows that it was never intended for him to marry Estella and that it was just his interpretation of the situation. The final realization is when Estella announces that she will be marrying Drummle. This adds to Pip’s fading hope of a relationship with Estella as she tells him that she does not want to be with him. After Pip confesses his feeling to Estella one last time, he feels guilty because of the way he treated others. While Pip sacrifices his feelings for Estella he realizes just how badly he treated the ones he loved. Rawlins recognized Pip’s guilt when he states, “Pip’s sense of guilt is then awareness of his own sin, and moves him to reformations” (Rawlins 667). Pip starts to feel guilty for his treatment towards others, especially Joe. After this realization, Pip tries to make amends with loved ones: “Joe stayed with me, and I fancied I was little Pip again” (Dickens 497). The fact that being with Joe after they reconcile brings back old memories that makes Pip happier. Pip further emphasizes his happiness when he describes the place him and Joe go to think about memories: “and when I looked on the loveliness around me, and thought how it had grown and changed” (Dickens 498). At this time, Pip is happy and content with
Pip’s attitude begins to change after he visits Miss Havisham’s for the first time. This of course is where Pip first meets Estella, his love interest throughout the remainder of the novel. Pip begins to no longer feel proud of where he comes from but instead shameful. Pip decides that he wants to become a gentleman.
As Pip grows throughout the novel, he develops and matures from a young boy that doesn’t know what to do to a young man who has a great outlook on life. In the first stage of Pip's life he is young and does not understand what it means to be a gentleman and how it can affect his life. During the first stage of Pips life, he only wants 3 things. He wants education, wealth, and social advancement. These three wishes are mostly so he can impress Estella, who is the symbol of this first stage. Pip does not want to be just a blacksmith like Joe. He wants to be intelligent and considered a person of high importance. At the end of this stage he moves to London and begins to have a different outlook on his future.
First, Pip is blinded by his love and need for Estella, and his constant trial to win her heart and approval disorients his thoughts and actions. Pip is willing to do anything to charm Estella, and he believes that in order to do so he needs to become a gentleman. Pip’s desire causes him to go to Biddy (and many others) for help, and explain to them his want, as shown in the quote “I want to be a gentleman” (128). As Pip grows further and further away from his old self, we see that Pip is even willing to give up the likes and wishes he had as a child. His gratefulness towards Joe and his job is also jeopardized as seen through the quote “Finally, I remember that when I got into my
In Great Expectations, Pip was one of lower class. Although he did not have the fortunes, Pip was happy. Once he was introduced to the rich Miss Havisham and her daughter Estella, he fell in love. Estella became the object of his affection, yet because she was considered high class, there wou...
When Pip was very young, he was confused at what love should really be. It is no surprise that Pip has a very odd point of view about women at this point in the story. He’s met so many harsh women, he must think at his young age, that most women are like that. Estella, Pip’s first love, looks down on him, and Miss Havisham, confuses him and even tells Estella to break his heart. It is a mystery to know how Pip actually learns what love is with all the confusion from when he was young. Estella does not return Pip’s love when they are young, but when they grow older, she learns to love him dearly as a friend. When Pip traveled to London to become a gentleman, he becomes very close friends with the convict Magwitch. Later, Pip finds out that Magwitch is Estella’s real father, and on his deathbed, Pip, by his side, admits h...
...rity, and the ending of his story he has sealed with pain and hardships of life. From losing his parents and sister, his best friend, being treated cold hearted by the love of his life Pip still manages to make it out in an okay way with the little hope with Estella and his close one's child who looks just like him in a scary way. It is not the best ending but it could've been worst for the young man. Pip's idea of life is truly suffering from the worst and getting only a little bit of resemblance from it.
to London, he meets her, but she tries to warn Pip to stay away from her because she might hurt his
In the first stage of Great Expectations, Pip begins as a contented boy, happy with his own way of life, but soon becomes humiliated by the ones he loves, and starts to morph into someone who is very status-conscious. At the start, Pip looks up to Joe, and even says, “Joe and I (were) fellow-sufferers…” showing that Pip regarded Joe as an equal (Dickens 7). At this stage in Pip’s life, he has not yet realized what social class is, and so he is perfectly happy being with Joe. Joe and Pip are good friends at this point, and Pip really appreciates him as a person. This all changes after Pip’s first visit with Estella, especially when he says, “Her contempt for me was so strong that it became infectious, and I caught it,” showing that he is beginning to take into account other people’s thoughts about himself (62). Although Estella looks down upon Pip for being ‘common’, there is irony in his statement, because Estella comes from an even lower class than him. Throughout the whole novel, Pip tries to impress her, thinking that she is well above him, when she is actually the daughter of a convict. Finally, Pip shows betrayal to Joe when he says, “I was truly ...
By the end of the novel, his life comes full circle where he saves Magwitch, in turn saving himself. Pip’s story is more than personal development. It is the story of a young man who learns to rise above selfishness. “Surprising turns of events and unexpected connections between the people he meets teach him about the nature of his society and about his permanent value of his childhood loyalties” (Bloom 25). The novel opens with Pip residing in his childhood home with
Pip’s first and only love is Estella. Estella is very mean and nasty to Pip. Although he receives verbal abuse from Estella, he continues to like her and will not stop liking her, he sees the good inside of her and will not stop until the good comes out. In contrast to her treatment of Pip as a child when she had called him a common laboratory boy with coarse hands and thick boots, she tries to explain to him that emotion is something that she is incapable of feeling. The fact of that is evidence of his illusion, not her cruelty.
Estella is the main incident in Pip’s life that ultimately leads to his obnoxious and contemptible behavior in the future. This is because of his love for her, even after their first encounter he describes Estella as “very pretty” yet “very insulting”. Unperturbed by this description, Estella continues her disgraceful treatment of the young and impressionable boy when she feeds, and treats him as if he were an animal, continuing to address him like an animal, she does not bother to learn his name, still referring to as boy.
At the conclusion of Great Expectations, the reader most likely finds Pip's fate acceptable and enjoyable. Earlier in his life, he had changed from an innocent, caring boy into an arrogant young man as a result of his unrealistic hopes and expectations. However, when those expectations come to an end, so do his undesirable traits, as he is shown to be a truly good-natured person. Therefore, it is fitting that, in both of Dickens' final episodes, Pip is happy and content with his life.
Expectations for Pip are fortune and the desire to become a gentleman as he discusses with Biddy, his private tutor: “I want to be a gentleman on her account” (Dickens, 117). Estella, albeit her bitter attitude towards Pip, changes his view that results in him longing to become a gentleman. His approach in becoming a gentleman is becoming apprenticed to his brother-in-law, the blacksmith. His initial stage of expectations is from Mr. Jaggers, Miss Havisham’s lawyer. The lawyer’s deliberately informs Pip “that he will come into a handsome property…be brought up as a young gentleman” (Dickens, 125). On hearing Mr. Jaggers, Pip was both astonished and excited because he yearned for such status. When Mr. Jaggers explained of Pip’s great amount fortune and significance, he automatically assumed his benefactor to be Miss Havisham. In his first expectation, Pip is to be professionally educated by Mr. Pocket,...