One major theme in the novel is appearance versus "reality". Discuss several things in the novel that weren't as they seemed to be. For example, Pip's Benefactor. In Great Expectations, Pips benefactor seems to be Miss Haveshem. She seems to take him in as a lad and introduce him to Estella, the young lady that he later falls in love with and is lead to believe that ... Drummle. It is this that reveals the humane part of Miss Haveshem that is not clearly displayed throughout the novel. Pip tells the story. Does hearing it from his point of view limit the reader's true knowledge of what really...

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... first encounter. In their first meeting there was a definite distinction between their classes. Pip the blacksmith's boy and Estella the ward of a wealthy woman. However at this meeting they are sitting next to one and other on a bench. This signifies equality. This original ending fits with the theme that it is impossible to go back, 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 sh...

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• Grade Level: High School