Pips guilt
Charles Dickens Great Expectations is a novel which addresses the many facets of guilt and the role in which guilt plays to lead the characters and readers towards a sense of moral redemption and maturity. Protagonist Pip perfectly embodies the novels representation of guilt as deep inadequacies in oneself and it's eventual closure, as we see Pip overcome his inner trials and tribulations. As the reader, Dickens has forced us to develop an understanding of Pip's guilt as to shape and enhance our perception of his character and his story. Pip's feelings of guilt are seen through both his roles as the protagonist: his actions are the driving force behind the story, and as narrator: his views are the driving force behind the novel. We see Pip go through three main stages of guilt: shame, self satisfaction, and rebirth, as he journey's from a selfish and ungrateful boy into a caring and compassionate man as he heads towards and achieves his inner redemption. Understanding the above stages of guilt are possibly the most important steps the reader must take towards embracing and understanding Great Expectations and it's deeply flawed hero. Pip's feelings of guilt are very strong and evident even from the beginning of the novel, wher
He feels fault even when he has done nothing wrong or quite obviously made the right decision. We see Pip spending money on unnecessary and impractical things as a form of show to his peers. " I was at first disposed to believe that I must have had some hand in the attack upon my sister, or at all events that as her near relation, popularly known to be under obligations to her, I was more legitimate object of suspicion than any one else" (120). When Pip hears that Joe will be coming to visit him he is overrun with feelings of shame and detest. He looks upon Joe's visit "with considerable disturbance, some mortification, and a keen sense of incongruity" ( 218). Pip's conscience seems to be largely determined by Mrs. As Pip's social status continues to rise his righteousness begins to deteriorate. Havisham, is given an apology for her part in his destruction. Through Pip's maturing affection for Magwitch he becomes more humanized, elevating from his selfish state and realizing the guilt behind his actions. He realizes that he has a moral obligation to Magwitch, he has undutifully wasted away the money and more importantly his integrity while Magwitch has remained in exclusion, surviving vicariously through Pip.
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