Females Influences on Pip in Great Expectations
By Charles Dickens
There are many influences on Pip’s life regarding his thoughts on
women. This would therefore mean that Pip would take his views on
women from those that were a played a major role in his life, for
example:
* Mrs Joe Gargery is Pip’s sister and has raised Pip because their
parents have died. Mrs Joe Gargery has raised both Joe Gargery and
Pip by hand as she is not happy with the way her life has turned
out.
* Ms Havisham is an old, frail woman who has been devastated by her
fiancé who ‘stood her up’ at the reception of their wedding. She
has now dedicated her life to destroy the love lives of other men.
* Estella, a young girl that Pip has a crush on, but who was raised
by Ms Havisham to ruin the life of men!
How does Mrs Joe Gargery influence Pip?
Mrs Joe Gargery has turned out to be a very violent woman as she has
raised her own brother by hand. She is also accused, by Pip, for
having raised Joe Gargery by hand as well. This female character
played a major role in the life of Pip as she is the first female
character Pip really knows and he would therefore get his view of
women from her.
She was not a good role model for Pip as she was, as we find out in
Chapter Two, not at all impressed with her life as she says, ‘It’s bad
enough to be a blacksmith’s wife (and him being a Gargery), without
being your mother’ and, as Mrs Joe Gargery says in Chapter Four,
‘Perhaps if I warn’t a blacksmith’s wife, and (what’s the same) a
slave with her apron never off, I should have been to hear the
carols’. From these two qu...
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...and negative effect on Pip by:
POSITIVE
The ‘snob-look’ was good for Pip when he became rich. This is because
most rich people were snobs.
NEGATIVE
Pip became ‘unaware’ of who his friends were as he became embarrassed
to be seen talking to Mr Joe Gargery as he was regarded a peasant.
Finally, in the book ‘Great Expectations’, all the female characters
have their own influences on Pip, some directly and some indirectly.
Some of these influences may have been for the better of Pip and some
for the worse. For example the situation Pip was in with Estella could
have taught him not to trust all the women he had feelings for. This
could have been a disadvantage to Pip in the fact that he may have
never trusted another woman, but as an advantage could have taught him
that not all women are trustworthy.
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