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Changes in the Character of PipGreat Expectations, by Charles Dickens is a fascinating tale of love and fortune. The main character, Pip, is a dynamic character who undergoes many changes through the course of the book. Throughout this analysis the character, Pip will be identified and his gradual change through the story will be surveyed.The main character, Pip, is a gentle character. His traits include humbleness, kindness, and lovingness. These traits are most likely the cause of his childhood poverty. In the beginning of the story, Pip is a mild mannered little boy who goes on with his own humble life. That, though, will change as he meets Magwich, a thief and future benefactor. Pip?s kindness goes out to help the convict, Magwich when he gives food and clothing to him. Magwich tells Pip that he?ll never forget his kindness and will remember Pip always and forever. This is the beginning of Pip?s dynamic change. Throughout the novel, Great Expectations, the character, Pip gradually changes from a kind and humble character to a character that is bitter, then snobbish and finally evolves into the kind and loving character which he was at the beginning of the story.In order to make more money Pip?s uncle sends Pip to a psychotic old lady?s house named Mrs. Havisham. Mrs. Havisham is a mean and nasty character who constantly bickers at Pip and tells him of his unimportance. Pip continues to be mild mannered and respectful to Mrs. Havisham yet he begins to see that he will never get ahead in life just being nice. Mrs. Havisham uses Pip as sort of a guinea pig to take out her passion of revenge against men. She does this by using her daughter, Estella to torment Pip.?Pip?s first and only love is Estella. Estella is very mean and nasty to Pip.? Although he receives verbal abuse from Estella, he continues to like her and will not stop liking her, he sees the good inside of her and will not stop until the good comes out. In contrast to her treatment of Pip as a child when she had called him a common laboratory boy with coarse hands and thick boots, she tries to explain to him that emotion is something that she is incapable of feeling. The fact of that is evidence of his illusion, not her cruelty. He sees that he cannot control Estella and that life is not fair, and he develops bitterness towards it.Pip?s dream of becoming a gentleman comes true when his old friend Magwich comes back to become his benefactor. As his benefactor he funds Pip in his academic studies and makes Pip a gentleman. Through this Pip?s dream becomes true and he starts to act like a snob even though he truly isn?t. His attitude changes and he becomes ?stuck up? and the exact opposite that he was in his childhood. This is evidence of a dynamic change in the story.??????????? After many years, Pip who is a changed man sees his old love Estella. There he falls in love with her again even though she explains that she cannot feel any feelings for him. To make a long story short, they fall in love, and that causes him to revert back to his old self; a gentle, kind, mild mannered person who sees only the good in people.??????????? In conclusion the character, Pip is a great example of a very dynamic character.? This story was pretty typical of Charles Dickens because as everyone knows he despises rich folk. Great ExpectationsProtagonist: Phillip Pirrip, a.k.a. "Pip"The obvious protagonist to "Great Expectations", Pip is kind and compassionate, devoted to his friends, and always willing to lend a hand to someone in need. Though his "great expectations" tend to lead him astray, Pip always manages to redeem himself- relying on his conscience and inherently kind nature to pull him through. His hopeless love for Estella, and the ideals she represents, shapes Pip from an early age. However, it is Pip's kindness to a desperate convict that makes these ideals come to pass.When a strange, fearful man jumps out at young Pip one day, he is overcome with terror to find himself in the hands of an escaped convict. However, the crook releases Pip rather than killing him, instead directing him to bring food and a file. The boy generously complies- at the risk of his sister's wrath- when he could have run away and never looked back. He never even thinks to turn in the escapee; in fact he claims; "Pitying his desolation, and watching him as he gradually settled down upon the pie, I made bold to say, 'I am glad you enjoy it.'"(p16). Little does Pip know, his act of charity will bring about most unexpected results in the future.Pip also selflessly helps all who are in need. Not only does he help his dear friend Herbert with his financial difficulties, he also comes once again to the aid of "his" convict upon his strange arrival. Although shocked and disgusted at first by the knowledge that the old "warmint" ishis true benefactor, Pip comes to care for the unfortunate old man. He places himself at risk in order to save Magwitch several times, despite the fact that the tramp represents an abrupt ending to all his great expectations. Pip even demonstrates boundless sympathy towards the twisted Miss Havisham, who in the end wishes to atone for her crimes against both him and Estella. In fact, Havisham's revelation reminds Pip of his own cruel deeds; forcing him to remember Joe and Biddy, whom he had loved and abandoned. Furthermore, when Miss Havisham begs for something to "to show you that I am not all stone," Pip only thinks only for the wellfare of Herbert's business, rather than his own financial instability. (p368).These characteristics are essential in order to emphasize Pip's inner conflict between his caring nature and his great expectations. Though he doesn't mean to act unkind, Pip's inner nature is swallowed up by his quest for self-improvement. He loves Joe and Biddy, yet spurns them because they don't fit into his new life. Though Pip grows to care more about being a "gentleman" rather than those he loves, in the end he finally learns that one's station in life doesn't necessarily determine happiness.Pip's main failing lies in his personal quest to move up in life. Thanks to Miss Havisham and Estella, he is no longer satisfied with his old life at the forge, and even grows to be ashamed of his closest friends. Pip throws away his old life in the hopeless persuit of Estella, who he assumes is picked out for him to marry. Pip takes his whole life as a "gentleman" for granted, assuming all along that the twisted Miss Havisham is his mysterious benefactor. Rather, she is simply a twisted old woman, bitterly seeking revenge upon mankind. In fact, Pip claims himself, "I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death."(p281). However, once he discovers the true identity of his patron, Pip finally realizes the futility of all he has worked for. "O that he had never come! That he had left me at the forge- far from contented, yet, by comparison, happy!" (p300). His whole purpose as a gentleman is pointless up until now; he has lost Joe and Biddy, he will never win Estella, and he will never use his patron's money again.In addition to his "worthless conduct" towards Joe and Biddy, Pip finds himself repulsed by the old convict that he had abandoned them for. (p302). Even once Pip discovers his patron's reasons for coming, he cannot help but despise the old man for being everything he was taught to abbhor. In a single instant, all his "great expectations" are shattered like glass, and for a while he simply cannot bear to forgive (or even be thankful for) the cause of it all.Pip- essentially a kind and loveable character, he fills the reader with sorrow when he is led astray by ambition. His reaction to Joe, Biddy, and Magwitch seem at first completely out of his character. However, his true personity once more comes to light as he desperately tries to atone for all he has done wrong. Pip's failings serve as a way to keep the plot moving, driving the action between himself and Magwitch in addition to giving him a purpose. After all, Pip's "great expectations" are his biggest flaw, yet are also the subject of the entire novel. We watch as Pip grows and matures, learning through his faults how to a better person, and to never take his life or his loved ones for granted。