I find this passage to be very deep. It shows how Pip still holds those at the forge dear, but is confused. Confused by the influence of Miss Havisham. I feel like this passage is important, due to his development as a character. He still loves Joe and Biddy, and doesn't know why he fells this way. The information about the Havisham days makes me see Miss Havisham and Estella as more of a drug rather than a new future. Pip still has a decent life, despite living as a blacksmith apprentice, but the influence of Miss Havisham jumbles his mind and leads him on in hope of a new life. He doesn't like them. He tells earlier how unhappy he is with Estella and Miss Havisham, but continues to be infatuated with them and see them. They are a drug. A
In Chapter 12, Joe behaves abnormally after coming back from Miss Havisham’s place and receiving twenty-five pounds from her as Pip’s wage. However honest and artless Joe was before, he is for sure dramatically different after the trip to Miss Havisham’s, which makes me wonder what might possibly cause this extreme change to happen (my question). I first thought that since the author has portrayed the lady’s mansion as a ghostly and deserted place where Pip has even once saw a ghost, maybe it’s the place that has caused this change in Joe. In the book, Joe hypocritically flatters Mrs. Joe, who is angry by the fact that the lady invites Joe to the mansion and not her, by making up greetings to Mrs. Joe from the lady, who in fact may not
Her way of coping the heartbreak was to build a girl to break mens hearts. This girl happens to be Estella, Pip’s dream girl. Miss Havisham leurs Pip by having him come to her house to learn how to be a gentlemen and to do that he has to interact with Estella. It is evident that she has bad intentions
Through her attempts she replaces her daughter’s heart with ice and breaks young men’s hearts. In Dickens’ bildungsroman Great Expectations, Pip and Miss Havisham’s morally ambiguous characterization helps develop the theme, that one needs to learn to be resilient. The internal struggles that Pip experiences through the novel, reveal his displeasure to his settings and
He is feeling guilty about the way he treated his loved ones in the past. He is regretting his life in London. Pip is shameful because he believes that if he had not ever seen Miss Havisham’s face, he would be a partner with Joe in the forge and his relationship with Biddy would be better than it is at this moment. He realizes how much he misses home and being in the
He then has to face the fact that Estella does not love him and all the work he has put in to gain her attention, is only now to his advantage. This goes to show that people get so focused on impressing others and fitting in that they forget who they really are and what will result in the best outcome. In the novel, Pip realizes that he ended up alone and that the woman he believed to love never even liked him in return. Basically ended up being a sort of plot twist, where the audience was meant to realize how when they have too much ambition they forget what they had from the start. This lesson demonstrates how no matter what one should focus on the real meanings of life, and not material