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Review of Great Expectations
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is a touching and profound story of the life of a boy named Pip, and follows him through his young life.At the opening of the book, Pip was a parentle young boy.His parents and siblings had paed away through reasons unknown to the reader, and he was left to his elder sister, Mrs.Joe, to be brought up, pretty painfully, “by hand.” Fortunately she was not his only source of upbringing, as she was married to a blacksmith, Pip's friend and mentor in his life, Joe.As the first scene unfolds, I see young Pip seated uncomfortably on a tombstone in the graveyard out on the foggy swamps by his village.A definitely ragged convict is staring down at him, who also plays a very important role in Pip's life.As Pip grows up, he becomes the subject of some unknown party's very great expectations and is endowed with considerable wealth by that party unexpectedly.I follow Pip into his various adventures, interests, and see him become mature when he grapples with his conscience and his quite strong sense of right and wrong.The way the author describes his characters and develops them through their life is fabulous.Each character played an influential role in Pip's life.Ingeniously, many of them were unlikely and recurring acquaintances, such as “the pale young gentleman” that Pip fought in the courtyard at the Satis House, who turned out to be Herbert afterward, the young man whom Pip was to room with at Barnard's inn.Another surprised
reoccurrence was that of Abel Magwitch, the convict, as Pip's own benefactor.All these roles together and the brilliant way in which they are plot-developed and related to Pip showed a feeling of familiarity and nostalgia on the mood of the story.The novel even if full of pleasantry and familiarity is still filled with hardships and conflicts for Pip as well.One major conflict falls into the claic “man versus himself” type.I can see throughout the novel that Pip has a defining wish to improve himself but also an intense conscience.I can see from almost the beginning of the book Pip eagerly desires to rise himself above surroundings and makes the most of himself as he poibly as he can, and maybe more.The desire really began with his introduction to Mi Havisham, the very strange woman who lived in the Satis House uptown from Pip.He met not only Mi Havisham but the young adopted girl Estella there, whom Mi Havisham had raised since early childhood.Pip was almost instantly attracted by her and her beauty, yet she scorned him sharply.Pip couldn't understand in his age why she treated him like this, and was very embarraed of himself and his background, hoping “his boots weren't so thick and his accent not so coarse.” He considered himself to be very coarse and so ordinary, feeling a strong push to improve.Pip's best friend and father figure-Poor Joe could not compete with the worldly-wise circle at the Satis House, nor did the wealth and property Pip get.Neverthele, I find a sort of guilt on Pip's principles
over having been so disdainful to Joe and his friend﹠maid, Biddy.I think Pip has a strong sense of self-worth;gratitude and love for those people also love him.Dickens as a very descriptive novelist has peppered this novel with a great many literary settings, who makes full use of symbolism.One of the symbols is the fogs around the marshes that present things shadowy and uncertain, concealing the future from view.The second symbol in the book is the fateful and foreboding prison hulks on the water, which hangs over Pip's guilty mind like a black cloud.Every sound of the guns is like the fall of judge's gavel, declaring Pip guilt of awful crimes against those who had helped him.The writer also places emphasis on the importance of Pip’s life before, and characters return from those foggy depths like ghosts comes hover.The enemy of Pip's fugitive-Compeyson, Magwitch, and Magwitch himself struggling in the stream in the marshes, the inceant sound of Magwitch filing away at his leg iron with the file Pip procured from Joe's workshop: all were images to come back to Pip all along through his life.This book is written in the first person, and seen through Pip’s eyes;Charles Dickens has written this book with a deep sense of meaning.He is trying to show us, through Pip's trials, griefs, and relationships-his life, that one must value himself and appreciate people for who they really are.Pip came into so much wealth and property, but did it improve the quality
of his life? The answer is no.Somehow, it undermines it.How many times did Pip tell himself inside how much better it would have been for him to stay with Joe at the forge, and be an honest man each day with the ones he cared for?Has he regretted been so scornful and arrogant to those who had shown him friendship and love? An example of this main theme can be found early in the book.Here is the descriptive paage: “In his working clothes, Joe was a well-knit, characteristic-looking blacksmith;in his holiday clothes, he was more like a scarecrow in good circumstances, than anything else.” Joe is a hard-working man who is proud of his simple but honest work.He doesn't strive for something he's not and unnatural.He is a happy man, who satisfied with his life.I once heard the majority of this story on mp4.Now, I have read this book throughout.What I did was appreciating every chapter of it.This is truly an emotional work.I found myself moved many times throughout the piece by Dickens' innocent and familiar characters and the book's sense of nostalgia and bittersweet happine.To anyone with any serious interest in reading whatsoever, this book is absolutely worth reading.
