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Character sketch of pip in great expectation

Answer 1

Imagine growing up orphaned by your parents. It might be difficult to navigate the world and know what to expect from others. You might spend most of your time trying to figure out how to be successful and grow into a respectable woman or man. The novel Great Expectations, written by Charles Dickens, tells the story of a boy who does just that.

Great Expectations is a coming of age novel, a novel that focuses on the maturity of the protagonist from childhood to adulthood. It tells the story of Philip Pirrip, or Pip. Pip is the protagonist (main character) and the narrator of the story. Pip tells readers the story of things that took place in his life as he grew into adulthood. Pip lacks knowledge of the world and the ways of people. He views life and success in naïve ways, but like all of us, eventually matures and grows as a person.

He is amongst the most popular characters in English literature, widely portrayed all over the world on stage and screen.

Answer 2

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The novel's hero, Pip is an orphan who lives with his harsh and selfish sister Mrs. Joe and serves as the apprentice of her gentle blacksmith husband Joe. Pip is sensitive and intellectually curious, but he is also extremely ambitious and, when he unexpectedly comes into money as a teenager, Pip grows haughty and extravagant in pursuit of a lifestyle genteel enough to meet the refined standards of Estella, the woman he loves. Confusing personal integrity with public reputation, Pip is cruelly disloyal to Joe and Biddy, avoiding them because of their lower class. Still, by novel's end, Pip learns to judge people by internal rather than superficial standards and redeems himself by repenting sincerely and reforming his personal values.