Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Great Expectations Character - Pip
- Most important character
- protagonist
- Pip's actions make
up the main plot of the
novel
- Narrator
- Pip's thoughts and
attitudes shape the
reader’s perception of
the story
- Story told many
years after the
events of the novel
toke place
- Judges his own past harshly,
no credit given
- Personality
- Immature
- Romantic
- Good conscience
- Deeply wants to improve himself
- Educational
- Moral
- Social
- Join upper class
- Doesnt want to be poor
- Pip immediately begins to act as he thinks a
gentleman is supposed to act, which leads him to treat
Joe and Biddy snobbishly and coldly.
- Ashamed of his background after seeing Satis House
- At heart very generous
- Sympathetic
- Influences
- Miss Havisham
- largely overshadows his basic goodness
- Estella
- Loves and wants to marry her
- loses Estella to the brutish nobleman Drummle
- Pip wants to become a
gentleman so that they can be
together
- Developments
- Beginning
- Ashamed of his background and family
- Wants to be a gentleman and have his fortune
- Upper class
- End
- He realizes behavior as a gentleman has
caused him to hurt the people who care
about him most
- Realizes him and Estella will never be