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Great Expectations: Pip's changing perceptions of people

 

Pip was always waiting for Estella to insult him with, he kept feeling that she was "lying in wait" for Pip to do something that she wouldn't like. It seemed as if she enjoyed in tormeting him. In the courtyard, she handed him some food, but she never looked at him, she acted as if he was "a dog in disgrace". She always gave Pip the cold shoulder.
             Estella started to make Pip look differently about everything in his life, including Joe, "I wish Joe was more genteelly brought up". He felt useless and that he "was not favorable". All these things never use to bother him before, but now because of what Estella told him, he see's everything that he's ever done not good enough.
             Miss Havisham had brought Estella up in the Satis house to have revenge on all men. Estella is not a true lady, she's too full of herself and everything she looks at, if it's not to her liking, it's wrong. The Satis house represents death, sadness and anger. Everything in the house is messing up Pip's mind. .
             Pip grerw up believing he was going to be a blacksmith just like Joe but now because of Estella, he wants to grow up to be a gentleman. He doesn't even want to look at the home which was so good to him anymore. Pip was determind to become a gentleman "I had believed in the forge as the glowing road to manhood and independence. Within a single year, all this was changed.".
             Pip now wants to live in London, so he can learn to be a true gentleman. He believes that London will fullfill his happiness and the perfect life he's looking for.
             When Jagger's arrives to take Pip to London, Pip couldn't be more happier, he was finally going to be a gentleman. Pip wants to impress everyone, including Estella. He is starting to become shallow just like all the other higher class people, trying to impress. "It is the desire of his benefactor that he is to be immediately removed from his present sphere of life and from this place he is to be brought up as a gentleman - in a woed, as a fellow of great expectations.


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