... and one must pay for what has been done. Pips desire to become a gentleman clouds his thoughts and he, like Estella, became a snob. However at the end of the first two books of the novel he has moments of deep recrimination. If I had cried before, I should have had Joe with me then. (Chapter ... 19, page 178) and my own worthless conduct to them was greater than every consideration I could never, never, never, undo what I had done." (Chapter 39, page 376). We now empathise with him and as a response will not be satisfied for him to be punished for his mistakes. The revised ending of Grea...

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... Pip goes through. The more time Pip spends at the Satis House with Miss Havisham and Estella the more he rejects his own background and leaving his childhood behind," the mists had solemnly risen now and the world lay spread before me". In the novel Pip is faced with the feeling of guilt and loneliness ... lighted in the dusk of evening, there were depressing hints of reproaches for that I had put the poor old kitchen at home so far away". In Chapter 39 Dickens uses imagery to enhance the setting and atmosphere throughout the chapter. It starts with a storm, as if the weather is a clue ...

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