Great Expectations Analysis: Dreams Hopes and Plans

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Theme of Great Expectations: Dreams, Hopes and Plans In the year of 1986, Charles Dickens published a novel called Great Expectations. Great Expectations is a novel revolved around love, wealth, social class, jealousy, friendship, loyalty, and relations. It includes an abundance of themes based on the lives of the characters featured in the book. One of the many themes in this book is directed around the characters’ dreams, hopes and plans. Three characters that I believed presented their dreams, hopes and plans the most was Pip, the main character, Miss Havisham and Biddy. Pip, Miss Havisham and Biddy displayed in this novel that people can’t realize their dreams, hopes and plan until they have accepted their past. Throughout Great Expectations, Pip was obsessed over becoming a gentleman, but he wasn’t satisfied and appreciative of his past. Once Pip met Estella and Miss Havisham in chapter eight, he finally realized he was in a lower social class and he wanted to become a gentleman. “So, leaving word with the shopman on what day I was wanted at Miss Havisham’s again, I set off on a four-mile walk to out forge, pondering, as I went along, on all I had seen, and deeply revolving that I was a common laboring-boy, that my hands were coarse; that my boots were thick; that I had fallen into a despicable habit of calling knaves jacks; that I was much more ignorant that I had considered myself last night; and generally that I was in a low-lived bad way,” (Dickens 67.) Since then, Pip’s main goal in life was to become a gentleman and please Estella as much as he could. And over the years, Pip slowly became infatuated to becoming a gentleman. When Pip was first introduced into a high social class, everyone saw a negative adjustment in his attitude; he began to look down on the people that cared about him the most; Joe Gargery, his brother-in-law and Biddy, his

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