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Charles Dickens’ Great ExpectationsGreat Expectations is a semi-autobiographical book written in themid-19th century by Charles Dickens the novel follows the life of theorphan protagonist Pip who we see change from a young child to amaturing young adult. Through this essay I aim to show how GreatExpectations fits the genre of Bildungsroman but also how CharlesDickens writes beyond the traditional criteria. Charles Dickens writesabout the controversial issues on class through the Bildungsromangenre. At the beginning of the book Pip is young and innocent but asinteractions with the cold-hearted Estella occur I feel he starts tolose himself and by the end he has become conceited and quite a spoiltperson.
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We see Pip’s sense of morals change throughout the book, for exampleright at the beginning we see Pip describing what he thinks hisparents looked like. We see a child like innocence in him and thereader knows how imaginative Pip is “unreasonably derived form theirtombstones”. Charles Dickens sets out the setting for us, makes usfeel sympathy towards Pip but also doesn’t dwell on the tragedy of Pipbeing an orphan. Charles Dickens humourises it, “I drew a childishconclusion”. As Pip steals for the convict I feel he is beginning tochange, although he still has a sense of morals because he has aconscience “conscience is a dreadful thing when it confuses a man orboy. From these first two chapters we see the contrast of Pip as avery innocent child to a child maturing.
Through the first few chapters we are given an idea of how Pip lives,as we know he is an orphan who is being “brought up by hand” by hisdevil- like sister and her angelic husband Joe. Sympathy is felt forPip because of the lack of love he has in his life. The social classof the family is established quite quickly when we hear that he is ablacksmith. Pip seems quite happy with his life and his desire to be
