Pip thinks that Miss Havisham is the fairy godmother and his benefactor but by the end of the novel he realizes that she is the evil ogre. According to Pip Miss Havisham is an immensely rich and grim lady who is living in a large house and leads a life of seclusion. She looks like a lady from another world. “In an arm chair, with an elbow resting on the table and her head leaning on that hand, sat the strangest lady I have ever seen, or shall ever see”1. Miss Havisham had paid Pip a premium of twenty-five guineas for going there.

In conclusion, Pip realizes that fairy tales doesn’t come true in reality and it was only his imagination that lead him to the false assumptions. In my opinion, Pip shouldn’t have gone that deep in his feelings towards Estella, because that was the reason, why he lost all his love towards his loved ones. He finally, with his snobbish attitude, neither got his love upon his expectations nor the fortune that he was dreaming of, all the time, yet he lost Joe and Biddy’s attentions towards him.

Pip thinks that Magwitch, the escaped convict, is the evil ogre. However, towards the end of the novel, he contradicts his thoughts, by acknowledging that he is the actual fairy godfather. Magwitch is a convict who is in leg irons, cold, hungry, desperate, and has escaped from a prison ship. “A fearful man, all in coarse gray, with a great iron on his leg. A man with no hat, and with broken shoes, and with an old rag tied around his head.”10 “Magwitch is a convict escaped from the prison ship.”12 He threatens Pip and forces him to steal food, and a file for his leg irons or he will kill him and eat his liver. “You bring me, to-morrow morning early, that file and them whittles… and you shall be let to live. You fail, or you go from my words in any particular, no matter how small it is, and your heart and your liver shall be tore out, roasted, and ate.”13 Pip is disgusted and very much afraid from him again for the second time when he meets him. “I was very much afraid of him again, now that he had worked himself into this fierce hurry, and I was likewise very much afraid of keeping away from home longer.”14 But Magwitch saves Pip from getting caught of theft. When the police captured him, he told Joe and the police that he stole the file and the food from Joe’s forge and house. “I took some whittles, up at the village over yonder—where the church stands a’most out on the marshes.”15 “‘you mean stole,’ said the sergeant. ‘And I’ll tell you where from. From the blacksmith’s.’”16 Magwitch is Pip’s benefactor, who used his wealth to make Pip a gentleman. “Yes, Pip, dear boy, I’ve made a gentleman on you! It’s me what has done it!”17 “Look’ee here, Pip. I’m your second father. You’re neither my son more to me nor any son. I’ve put away money, only for you to spend.”18 “Pip does not owe his great expectations to the fairy godmother Miss Havisham, but to the ogre Magwitch.”19 Magwitch risks his life and comes back to England to see Pip, even though he takes all the risk of being caught, killed, or losing all his property. Even though he is in considerable danger, Magwitch still comes because of his love towards Pip. “If the danger had been fifty times as great, I should ha’ come to see you, mind you, just the same.”20 Therefore, as can be seen from the above, Pip was threatened by Magwitch at the beginning of the novel, noting him an evil ogre in Pip’s eyes. In

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Miss Havisham, Pip Magwitch, England Pip, Pip Joe, London”38 Pip, Estella Richmond, Estella Pip’s, Gargery Blacksmith, Joe Gargery, Satis House”29, miss havisham, fairy godmother, evil ogre, towards novel, love towards, loved ones, towards loved ones, towards estella, joe’s confidence, distant star, estella revenge, pip miss havisham,