Great Expectations: A Tale Of Two Characters
As the man's feet gently weaved through all of the fallen and crumbling remnants of the once fine establishment Satis House, he thought of his life filled with ironies and regret. He was once arrogant and also very much an elitist, the man was once ashamed of his past and only knew that he wanted a young woman, Estella. He knew that he wanted her more than anything and he believed that she would satisfy him, that he could love her, that she was the only one he wanted, and that he would do anything and go any lengths to call her his own. The same man was now more humble, years wiser and had lost his sense of aristocracy which he had once proudly worn like a hat. The man now stood at the old house that had changed him so greatly and now made his way around the estate. Although he had changed into two distinctly different people that could even be classified as two different Pips, he had never ventured to change his name, yet his wealth, his work and his vanity have done just the opposite of that. The novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is filled with characters who show many contrasting attributes, yet one of the greatest contras is the change that Pip, the main character undergoes.
934) Money and his misconception of "love" have changed Pip. Pip had very bad financial tendencies to spend more than he had and was constantly in debt. live frugally and paid my debts" (p. He never gives Joe or Biddy visits, he just does not care. 836) He had purchased an expensive chandelier, one that he had trouble paying for. In the third stage of Pip's expectations he makes a drastic change with his generosity. He becomes less hubristic and shows kindness to the ones he had been neglecting all throughout his second stage. Pip never worked in his second stage of his expectations. In Pip's second stage he had no job, yet in his third he had become business partners with Herbert. Pip takes Joe for granted and continues to only care about himself and the one who he thinks he loves. Pip went from becoming a naive little boy, to becoming an arrogant young man. Pip had once been a lower class blacksmith apprentice.
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