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
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...
The money from his anonymous benefactor led him to London to fulfill his “great expectations” of becoming a true gentleman and climb the social ladder. Estella, who is young and beautiful, influences Pip significantly. He falls in love with her, becoming even more snobbish and foolish to please her. Pip is “naturally decent” however for a time; his ambitions lead him to selfishness, moral cowardice, and the trappings of snobbery (Leone
ago; this man is his true benefactor. Pip finally knows the truth about this man. Magwitch is Estella’s
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.
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.
As said by Mr. Jaggers in the famed book, Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens, “Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is, that he has Great Expectations (Dickens 107).” This statement was the single event that allowed for the rest of the occurrences of the book to happen as they did. It is very clear to me that the absence of this event would have deprived Pip of the great lessons he learned while stuck between two worlds. Also, it would have been impossible for the other protagonists to mature to the point where they could also have had the same epiphany that Pip was so privileged to experience.
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...
Starting out straight from the beginning of Pip's life he is already in pain from losing his parents. He then must live with his older sister Ms.Joe who puts him through a great deal of torture during his childhood. Such as when he went to the graveyard without her approval, she filled his mouth with tarred water just to prove a point to him. Not only was it Ms.Joe though, but the convict as well who put the dark image in his head of the certain someone who would come to kill him if he didn't bring him what he wanted which Pip eventually could not stop being concerned about after he came back from the graveyard. Once Pip starts to visit Miss Havisham though it is obvious the way she has designed the Satis House is in such a low, dark, depressing emotion because of the experiences she's had to suffer during her past. Miss Havisham's suffering has defined her character though. "Miss Havisham herself, of course, is the big victim of the novel, abandoned on her wedding day ...
Pip grows a fondness towards the convict despite himself, and Pip finally decides to help the convict escape London. But the attempt to escape fails, and the convict is taken to prison, where he is destined to be hanged. The climax occurs when Pip decides not to abandon the convict and to stand by him until the end. Also, Pip finds out that all his inheritance will be taken by the state, but he still remains loyal to the convict. On the day of the convicts death; Pip comforts him and tells him that his long-lost daughter is alive and that she is Estella. The convict dies in peace; Pip learns what really make a good person; it’s not money or power but loyalty, love and friendship. This newfound learning is the basis of the resolution, Pip becomes gravely ill. And his “beat of friends” Joe comes to take care of him. Pip implores Joe to “look angry at me, Joe strike me, Joe tell me of my ingratitude. Don’t be so good to me.” Joe then tells Pip that there was nothing to forgive. Pip and Joe reconcile and become friends again. Pip learns that being “a fellow of great expectations,” does not make a worthy person, but being a person who treats others as he would wish to be treated; with respect, love, and kindness that is a person of real great
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.
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 ...
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,...