Great expectations
Strong alliances will bring far greater happiness than money. In Great Expectations Charles Dickens challenges the idea that materialism results in happiness and proposes that good relationships will bring happiness. Phillip Pirrip, the protagonist, begins the story as a young boy who is living an unhappy life with no expectations. Phillip, commonly referred to as Pip, builds many good relationships in the novel. These relationships do not bring him the happiness he wants at the beginning but near the end make him truly happy and shape him into the gentleman he was set out to become. Pips less desirable relationships in the story tax on his life and make him quite unhappy. These bad relationships draw him away from his true friends and turn him into an undesirable person himself. Pip originally imagines that his great expectations would bring him great happiness; they instead make him most unhappy. The great expectation was intended to make pip a gentleman; rather they make him proud, conceited and not a gentleman at all. Pip's beneficial relationships shape him into a good person and bring him happiness. Joe Gargery is Pip's brother in law; Joe is one of pip's best friends and is one of the few people around whom Pip fee
Provis, more commonly known as Magwitch, is another one of Pip's great relationships. The happiness that Pip sees are Herbert's face makes Pip even happier. The money that Pip thought he was getting/ did get from miss havisham corrupted him and made him into an egotistical jerk and forget about his true friends. After giving Herbert 500 pounds Pip discovers the great joy that one gets out of the act of giving. The relationship starts off seemingly good and she is seen in Pips mind as his benefactor. Pip's partner and friend, Herbert Pocket, is another one of Pip's great relationships. "But there was a calm, a rest, a virtuous hush consequent on these examinations of our affairs that gave me, for the time, an admirable opinion of myself" (294). They're relationship together did not start off well but in the end is quite beneficial. " 'It will not surprise you, it will not displease you. "If I could have kept him away by paying money, I certainly would have paid money. Pip has become so arrogant with his money that his completely disregards one of his true friends (Joe being "him"). After a while Pip realizes how discussing he has become and how much the materialistic way his is looking things make him unhappy.
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