Thursday, July 23, 2015

What is a character sketch of Pip in Great Expectations?

Pip is young, naive, and aspiring throughout the novel Great Expectations. In the beginning, he is a young child who has a very rough life, but he remains positive and tries to be kind and friendly to others. As he spends time with Miss Havisham, his naivete is shown, but also his devotion begins to be expressed when he meets Estella. He falls in love with her and remains obsessed with her the majority of the novel.
Later, when he moves off to the city with a mysterious benefactor, he remains very kindhearted, but also has great dreams and aspirations of becoming wealthy and earning Estella's hand in marriage. He works tirelessly, but his kind nature and sweetness begins to ebb as he becomes obsessed with earning wealth and with pursuing Estella, missing the friendships and love he has waiting in front of him. Eventually, it is stripped away when his benefactor runs out of wealth, and Pip is left to pick up the pieces of his life, rekindling the friendships he had made and mourning the multiple loves he lost in the process.

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