Great Expectations

Introduction

The main character, Pip, is a gentle character. His traits include humbleness, kindness, and lovingness. These traits are most likely the cause of his childhood poverty. In the beginning of the story, Pip is a mild mannered little boy who goes on with his own humble life. That, though, will change as he meets Magwich, a thief and future benefactor. Pip's kindness goes out to help the convict, Magwich when he gives food and clothing to him. Magwich tells Pip that he'll never forget his kindness and will remember Pip always and forever. This is the beginning of Pip's dynamic change. Throughout the novel, Great Expectations, the character, Pip gradually changes from a kind and humble character to a character that is bitter, then snobbish and finally evolves into the kind and loving character which he was at the beginning of the story

Philip Pirrip, better known as "Pip", a child who lives with his sister and his brother after the death of his parents, he meets an old convict who had escaped from a prison ship while visiting the graves of his parents. The old man asks the child collaboration, scaring and threatening, for this food and you get an instrument that can be released from their shackles. Pip decides to help rigorous behind his sister, who used to punish him with a wooden stick called "Tickler" stealing a cake and a file to the convict. After several days the convict is found by soldiers fighting with another convict who had escaped.

Although, at first glance, Pip is an unfortunate boy condemned to live with deprivations, destiny in their favor and in the life of this character, there is a mysterious benefactor who is willing to pay a training in London. As you will note, this act of solidarity is a total transformation in the life of the protagonist, but the idea of this summary does not tell you how the story ends, but reveal the main ideas to make them feel you yourselves desire to discover the final of this wonderful story titled "Great Expectations".

Discussion

One of the most interesting things about Pip is that he is the only character in the novel with whom we have no physical description whatever. Dickens was a master of rapid characterization through appearance, but we never learn what Pip looked like. There is nothing accidental about this. What Dickens is interested is in Pip's interior. His main concerns are the changes that take place inside Pip. Dickens' usual habit is to give his characters sharply marked physical characteristics which reflect their moral attitudes. Pip does none of these things. He changes radically; he moves to a frightened and selfish innocence to the snobbery and pretense of being manufactured gentleman to the wisdom that the convict Magwitch's basic goodness ultimately forces on him.

The external facets of Pip's life are very simple, despite the series of dramatic episodes he participates in. An orphan he is, who never saw his parents for reasons which are not ...