Charles Dickens', "Great Expectations," is a tale of forgiveness. The novel details the protagonist Pip's rise from an unassuming boy to a callous and unsympathetic adolescent and then finally to a kind and selfless young man. The titular great expectations are laid upon Pip by Magwitch, a former convict who was so struck by Pip's kindness towards him at a young age that he spends years attempting to scrape together enough money to finance Pip's education and gentrification. When Pip first discovers who Magwitch is and how he has been helping Pip he is amazed and horrified, for he had thought that Mrs. Havisham was financing him and implicitly stating her desire for Pip and Estella (Mrs. Havisham's adoptive daughter and the Pip's beloved) to be wed. Shocked at how his entire world view had been radically changed, Pip directs his anger at Magwitch and hates him for revealing his identity to Pip. Over the course of volume III, Pip reconciles his feelings towards Magwitch as he realizes how completely and selflessly Magwitch has provided for him and even becomes a more forgiving person.
But before Pip realizes Magwitch's intentions he feels only disgust and fear for the man who has, in his eyes, brought all his hopes and dreams crumbling down around him. The final sentence of the first passage, "Every hour so increased my abhorrence of him [Magwitch], that I even think I might have yielded to this impulse in the first agonies of being so haunted," (338) " demonstrates his feelings with extremely negative language. The words "abhorrence,"" "agonies,"" and "haunted,"" all show how strong Pip's feelings are. Earlier in the quote Pip "would sit and look at him, wondering what he had done, and loading him with all the crimes in the Calendar." This phrase illustrates how Pip can't get over Magwitch's past, even though his generous actions towards Pip more than make up for some unknown crime.
