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Essay Archive - Great Expectations: Pip's Personality Change
Great Expectations: Pip's Personality Change
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 personality rather than progressing as one would expect.
Pip, a person who had loved and revered his uncle Joe as a child, while
maturing, finds that his perspective on life has shifted. This boy,
beginning life with a caring, generous heart, regresses becoming a
superficial, un....
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