Characters
Characters in Great Expectations: Static or Dynamic? The characters in Great Expectations are the produc ts of extreme characterization. Each personality type represented is in its extreme, as though to make a point to the reader. Overall, the lesser characters in Great Expectations do not undergo a massive character change; that is, they remain static the whole time. The main role players, Pip, Miss. Havisham, and Mrs. Joe Gargery are the ones who undergo the most massive changes. Pip is first portrayed to us as one to be pitied, because the fate that he was living was not his fault. He is first an orphan with great respect to all those around him, regardless of the social classes. His love for Joe is very clear, and easy to understand. While Pip is obtaining his Expectations, he becomes a person that the reader can no longer sympathize with. He begins to be caught up in the superficial
aspects of life, such as material wealth and social status. The reader begins to scorn Pip's treatment to the man that was once his only friend iShe manipulates people to her advantage without a thought to their heart and feelings. Her treatment of those around her stays very much the same until before her death, when she shows extreme remorse and pain for her actions. It is at that moment in the novel when the reader begins to feel some sort of sympathy for her. Even though she was an villainous character, it's easy to sympathize with someone who is dying with so many unresolved issues. She expressed her good intentions towards Estella's upbringing, which shows that, while she may have lacked the inner strength to carry through with these intentions, her heart was in the right place. The change so apparent in Mrs. Joe Gargery was not brought about by some change-of-heart like the others, b
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