Enam's Scholarly Articles on English

Pip, the central character of the novel “Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens (1812-1870), a great Victorian novelist, is haunted by great expectations of being a ‘gentleman’ from his very childhood. As he grows throughout the novel, he develops and matures from a naive, young boy to a moral gentleman by the three main stages that take place throughout his life. We are now going on to deal more thoroughly with what happens to Pip during the three stages of his great expectations. The first stage Pips development goes from the beginning of the novel, when Pip is a small boy, until he leaves for London to be a gentleman and live out his great expectations.In this stage of Pip's life he is young and does not understand what it means to be a gentleman and how it can affect his life.  Hebasically asks for three wishes: education, wealth, and social advancement.  These three wishes are mostly so he can impress Estella, whom Miss Havishammoulds as a way of wreaking revenge on the ...