Great Expectations: Pip's Personality Change
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Most people would assume that through age and maturation, a boy
with a wonderful heart and personality would further develop into a kind
hearted, considerate gentleman. In Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
provides his readers with an example of a boy who regresses in certain
aspects of his per ....
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.... in a
girl's appearance. Thinking of Biddy, Pip thought to himself, "She was not
beautiful--She was common and could not be like Estella..." (p 600)
Estella's beauty had made Pip blind as to what was really important in a
person. No matter how coldly Pip was treated by Estella, he went on loving
her only because of her astounding beauty.
As Pip progressed in life, he became increasingly ungrateful to the
people that had raised and cared for him as a child. His disrespect was
most stro ....
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