Pips Personality Change in Great Expectations :: Great Expectations Essays

Pips Personality Change in Great Expectations         Most tribe would assume that through age and maturation, a boy with a rattling(prenominal) heart and someoneality would further develop into a kind hearted, unselfish 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 beclimax a superficial, ungrateful man who is guilty of what he had once been.         Pip and biddy had become the best of friends and felt very strongly towards each other.  However, once Pip had been introduced to Estella, he was overcome by her beauty, and would never again be able to look at Biddy, without feeling critical towards her.  Slowly, after coming into contact with Estella, Pip was becoming superficial, as he was only fire in a girls appearance.  Thinking of Biddy, Pip thought to himself, She was not beautiful--She was uncouth and could not be like Estella... (p 600) Estellas beauty had made Pip concealment as to what was really important in a person.  No field how coldly Pip was treated by Estella, he went on winning her only because of her astounding beauty.         As Pip progressed in life, he became progressively ungrateful to the people that had raised and cared for him as a child.  His disrespect was nigh strongly shown towards Joe.  Having not seen Joe for a number of years, Pip shows that he would rather have continued his instanter prosperous life without having anything to do with Joe, when he thinks, Let me confess with what feeling I looked forward to Joes coming...  Not with diversion though I wa s bound to him by so many ties no, with big disturbance and some mortification.  (p 630)  Despite Joes kindness and caring, Pip remained unappreciative and ungrateful, for now Pip was wealthy and did not care to have contact with a poor man.         Pips most unfavorable quality was the fact that he was ashamed of his past and his family.  By now, the only thing Pip was interested in was