Pips Personality Change in Great Expectations :: Great Expectations Essays

lashs Personality Change in Great Expectations         Most people would assume that through age and maturation, a boy with a wonderful center and temperament would further develop into a kind hearted, considerate 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 biography has shifted.  This boy, beginning life with a caring, generous heart, regresses becoming a superficial, ungrateful man who is ashamed of what he had once been.         Pip and Biddy had become the best of friends and felt genuinely 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, with out feeling lively towards her.  Slowly, after coming into contact with Estella, Pip was becoming superficial, as he was only interested in a girls appearance.  Thinking of Biddy, Pip thought to himself, She was non beautiful--She was common and could not be like Estella... (p 600) Estellas beauty had made Pip blind as to what was really important in a person.  No numerate how coldly Pip was treated by Estella, he went on loving her only because of her astounding beauty.         As Pip progressed in life, he became increasingly ungrateful to the people that had raised and headached for him as a child.  His disrespect was most strongly shown towards Joe.  Having not seen Joe for a number of years, Pip shows that he would rather have keep his now 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 pleasure though I was ensnare to him by so many ties no, with considerable 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