Character sketch of philip wakem in new school fellow
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Philip Wakem is a character in the third chapter 'the new school fellow' of the Mill on the Floss by George Eliot.
Character sketch of Philip Wakem
- Philip is the only son of a wealthy lawyer, Mr. Wakem.
- Mr. Wakem and Mr. Tulliver, Tom's father are enemies and so Tom and Philip continue the same way initially.
- Philip is physically deformed with a hunch on his back and so he is reserved and depressed most of the time.
- But slowly he brings out his intelligence in the way he tells Tom many interesting stories.
- He has special gifts of narrating tales and is good at drawing.
- Though he is physically challenged his mental health is good.
He soon becomes a friend of Tom by exhibiting his intelligence.
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Philip Wakem is introduced in the third chapter of the story Mill on the Floss by George Eliot.
He is the only son of a wealthy lawyer and carries out the animosity with his fellow student Tom Tulliver since both their fathers are rivals.
His deformity, a hunched back, makes him stay aloof and depressed most of the time but he has a gift of spinning tales and his intelligence is slowly reflected in the stories that he narrates to Tom who becomes his friend after seeing his brilliance with words.