Great Expectations Key Characters Analysis
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- Great Expectations: Key Character Analysis
- Pip
- Protagonist of the novel
- He goes from being a poor young boy in the countryside to a well-to-do young man in London who moves in high society
- Pip is encouraged to become a gentlemen by:
- His love for Estella
- The money he comes into which allows him to move upwards in society
- Pip is also the narrator who looks back at his younger self with a more mature eye.
- Estella
- Brought up to despise men but to use her beauty to attract them and then break their hearts. Pip is possibly the first of her victims
- Estella's upbringing means she becomes cold and cruel
- When they are children Estella mocks Pip for his common background, his speech, manners and appearance
- At the end of the novel, there is a hint that she and Pip will be a couple but there's nothing certain about it
- Miss Havisham
- Miss Havisham is a bitter recluse who has shut herself away since being jilted on her wedding day
- She never leaves the house and has stopped all the clocks so that she is unaware of time passing
- As a result of her experiences, Miss Havisham hates humanity, particularly, men
- In a tragic accident, Miss Havisham is horribly burned when her wedding dress catches fire and she dies shortly afterwards
- Magwitch
- In the first part of the novel, Magwitch is an escaped convict who meets the young Pip while he is on the run
- At this point in the story Magwitch is a frightening figure often compared to a hunted animal
- He reappears (under the name of 'Provis') many years later when Pip has grown up
- By this time Magwitch is a much older and somewhat kinder figure
- He is the source of Pip's good fortune
- In the first part of the novel, Magwitch is an escaped convict who meets the young Pip while he is on the run
- Pip
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