Great Expectations
'How do the events in chapter 8 forge Pip's great expectations?'Great Expectations was written by Charles Dickens who was one of Britain's most successful writers. He was born in Portsmouth on 7th February 1812; he was the second of eight children in his family. Dickens novel Great Expectations reflects the attitude of the early nineteenth century, were wealth and poor divided England. People with wealth had power in the society, but people who were poor had no say in anything that went on and were just disregarded as nobody's. Dickens use's Pip to illustrate how people were manipulated by the people who had the wealth and power in the society. In Great Expectations Pip's desire to better himself, to become a gentleman is born of some innate stirring. Rather he finds himself wanting to get out of the world in which he has lived since birth only after his encounters with Estella and Miss Havisham Great Expectations is a novel about a young boy called Phillip Pirrip (Pip) who's mother dies while giving birth to him and is grudgingly brought up by his older sister and her husband Mr. Joe Gargery. Joe is a very loving person and cares for Pip but his sister does not care or love him and this leaves him vulnerable to
Pip is alone in the courtyard and he starts to wish he were a 'gentleman', he starts wondering why he was brought up to be what he is. Pumplechook said to Pip "Boy! Let your behaviour here be a credit unto them, which brought you up by hand!" and then Estella escorted Pip into the house and this is when things start to change for Pip and he starts to observe things differently. Havishams riches Pip feels overwhelmed and starts to realise there is a different style of living for those who are wealthy, this sets him off on his great adventure to become a gentleman, he starts to feel really low and discontent and becomes unhappy with the life he is leading with his sister and Mr. Within 15 minutes they arrived at her house, it was of old brick and lucked very damp, dismal, grey and there was an old brewery just over the courtyard but it wasn't being used anymore and didn't look like it had been used for a long time. Havisham though he stayed the night with Mr. " You do, You have been crying till you are half blind, and you are near crying again now," said she, she laughed and pushed Pip out and locked the gate. Havishams, she was trying to call Pip. They couldn't go through the front entrance of the house because it was closed off by two chains so they went through a side door of the house and the first thing Pip notices is that all the passages are dark only lit up by a burning candle left there. What do you think of her?" Pip replies "I think she is very proud" "anything else?" asked Miss. Havisham's house, he is treated badly and verbally abused by Miss. He wiped his eyes dry and after that noticed behind the furthest end of the brewery, was a rank garden with an old wall which wasn't to high, Pip looked over and seen that the rank garden was the garden of the house and that it was overgrown with weeds, also he seen a track upon the green and yellow paths, as if someone walked there sometimes and that Estella was walking away from him even then but she seemed to be everywhere! Pip went into the brewery itself, the large paved lofty place in which they used to make beer. Everything that was meant to be white had lost its lustre and was no longer white. One day in Pip's life changed everything, it was just an ordinary day or so it seemed until a man who went by the name of Mr. Pip was feeling fairly uncomfortable about going to Miss. the manipulations of the adults who enter his life.
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