RealityVS.Illusion in Great Ex

The most significant illusion in Great Expectations is Pip's confident expectations of a better days to come. Pip began out poor, and was sent for to spend time every week with an upper-middle-class crazy woman and her unkind adopted daughter, Estella. From the moment Pip met Estella, he fell in love with her. Later on in the novel, he was offered financial support from an anonymous

patron that was to be consumed to go to London and become a gentleman. Pip assumed that Ms. Havisham, Estella's adoptive mother, was the benefactress. "My dream was out; my wild fancy was surpassed by sober reality; Miss Havisham was going to make my fortune on a grand scale." thought Pip.Thi

When Estella found out that Pip had come into a immense fortune, she recommended that "'Since your change of fortune and prospects, you have changed your companions.... And necessarily,' she added in a haughty tone;' what was fit company for you once would be quite unfit company for you now." Estella's true father is Magwich and true mother is a servant, but she is raised by a rich woman and is therefore upper-middle-class. By birth, however, she is in the bottom of lower class. In contrast, Biddy, an orphan maid, and Joe, Pip's brother in law, both maintain the appearance of lowly on the social classes of 19th century England.

s was the illusion that Pip had created and converted into reality for himself. Because he believed that Ms. Havisham was his benefactress, Pip also expected that Estella was destined for him. "I was painting brilliant pictures of her plans for me. She had adopted Estella, and had as good as adopted me, and it could not fail to be her intention to bring us together." "She reserved it for me to restore the desolate house, admit the sunshine into the dark rooms, set the clocks a-going and the cold hearths a-blazing, tear down the cobwebs, destroy the vermin, -- in short, do all the shining deeds of the young knight of romance, and marry the princess.... I had made up a rich attractive mystery, of which I was the hero." This is a very apparent illusion of what Pip expects for the future.

However, they both have such wonderful personalities and great views on life that in reality, they are better people than those of the upper class.

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