Charles Dickens Great Expectations Essays -- Charles Dickens Great Ex

Charles Dickens Great ExpectationsOne of Dickens most popular novels Great Expectations is a gripingsearch for identity- the fabricators self-identity Pip has been borninto a difficult world in the early years of the 19th Century. PhilipPirrip is the narrator of Great Expectations. In the book he is go throughn as Pip. He called himself Pip because as a young child hisinfant tongue could only get across to Pip. I the kickoff few chaptersof the book he is described as a timid, sensitive and guilt-riddenperson. His parents had died earlier, probably due to poverty. Pip isliving with his sister, who intimidates him in every form. We take carehis intimidation when he arrives late from the graveyard,I twisted the only button on my waistcoat round and round, and lookedin great depress at the fire. tickler file was a wax-ended piece of cane,worn smooth by collision with my tickled frameI see a parallel between Dickens and Pip. Dickenss lived in anover-crowded place when he was young. Hi s parents had no intentions ofsending him to school. He spent his days running errands and doingchores around the house also his younger sister died of variola major virus justlike, Pips brothers and sisters. Dickens was very concerned withsocial issues like poverty. At the time when the book was written,there was a very juicy level of infant mortality, which was made worseby deaths among poor adults, hence the number of orphans.The first meeting with Magwitch is in the churchyard, where Pip islost in infantile absorption grappling with his familys fate. Hisstate of mind is very unstable when Pip is grabbed violently and theconvict threatened to cut his throat if he was to patch up noise. Pipimagines Magwitch as a pir... ...r. Pip felt, Estella looked down on himbecause he was poor and non a gentleman. Pip was asked to play, but hedidnt know how to play. Estella lived in a society where her classdid not have to work, and we read that Pip wanted to leave when he wastold to play because he did not understand the word play.In chapter 9, when Pip returns home his shame testament not allow him totell the truth to his sister and Pumblechook so he is exaggerates. Wesee that Pip is telling Joe about his real feelings about his trip toSatis House. Unlike the theft, which he kept secret, he eventuallyconfides to Joe because he knows Joe will keep an open mind and he isthe only one person he can speak to without being punished and havinga guilty conscience. What he is confiding to Joe is his shame as aworking-class person and how he must change in order to win Estella.