Great Expectations The plot of Great Expectations revolves around Pip as a young boy and his chance encounter on the Kent marshes with an escaped convict, Magwitch. It follows Pip's journey through to adulthood and gives insight into the attitudes about the social conditions and snobbery at the time when Dickens was writing and what his views of them ... . His snobbery is very obvious because, instead of gratitude, his attitude is one of total horror and disgust: 'The abhorrence in which I held the man, the dread I had of him, the repugnance with which I shrank from him, could not have been ex...

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... rise from an unassuming boy to a callous and unsympathetic adolescent and then finally to a kind and selfless young man. The titular great expectations are laid upon Pip by Magwitch, a former convict who was so struck by Pip's kindness towards him at a ... this point in the book those feelings have changed drastically. When considering how he sees Magwitch now, Pip thinks, "I only saw a man who had meant to be my benefactor, and who had felt affectionately, gratefully, and generously, towards me with great constancy through a series of years." The words Pip ... uses to describe Magwitch ...

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