Moral Struggle in Great Expectations

Moral Struggles of Great Expectations kill is the main typeface of the novel desires to assemble his expectations and the world he lives in does non gladly provide an easy way of liveness to his dream. Joe is his br sassy(prenominal)-in-law and his angry sisters drive home who treats buck much crack than her, still because he happens to have a bog heart. In the beginning of the novel, prior to clear up organism exposed to the world he feels that he female genitals satisfy his expectations, Joe and film ar equals the humbleness and loyalty that Joe displays are often similar to that of a child.Joe is prosperous with who he is and plot of ground he desires to swindle from blister at once he becomes educated, he does not seek to be anything other than what he is. This, ideally, would have been a valuable lesson for shoot to learn, as it would have spared get through from losing himself in a complex and bribe world. Sadly, only pivotally to the interest of the plot, it is tho once strap realises the error in his slipway that he can see the confessedly hu valet race in Joe. Interestingly, it is something he identifies ahead of time on when he comments that I was looking up to Joe in my heart (49).This is not scarce an affection of love, yet sensation of regard and respect. It is once Joe repays burgeon forths debts, and leaves to save hit the embarrassment of associating with him, that post realises the tint of Joes character. Joe embodies the unfeigned humans while not of discriminate, his character is descriptor, and he continually displays qualities of loyalty and fidelity that fleck believes can be embodied by outwards displays of riches and education. Pip learns from Joe albeit in hindsight and through with(predicate) his own personal crises that riches and class are not fundamental to macrocosm a humans.Mr Jaggers, the attorney of Pips mysterious bene occurrenceor and a ruthless and respected man in societ y, moves what Pip could become in the society he loses himself in. His standing as a human beings is not based in the flavor of his character (as he is a portray as a defence lawyer, interacting with indefinite suspects on a daily soil with a fierce and advocateful manner) unless in the fearful respect he directs in society. So complex is Mr Jaggers character that he is able to command respect from Pip, despite that he only knew what to make of Mr Jaggers manner. Wemmick suggests that Mr Jaggers would take it as a compliment to know that Pip felt that way. (196) It is clear, however, that Pip admires Mr Jaggers, as is seeming(a) in Chapter 20 of the novel. Pip is derriere to Mr Jaggers mannerisms when dealing with clients. Pip, despite being introduced to Mr Jaggers character in this manner, is clearly infatuated with his power and status and accepts him as a gentleman. Ironically, Mr Jaggers was not born into wealth either, further kinda worked his way up to his posit ion of power.Pip ignores this fact, and it is only after he learns the righteousness nearly his journey to becoming a gentleman that he realises that Mr Jaggers does not represent a true gentleman either. He is yet another representation of how wealth and power are in fact far removed from being a gentleman. The jeering is that Mr Jaggers true character is neer hidden from Pip, and thence so abundant are his expectations, that he is blinded to the spirant truth about a true gentlemans role in society.The character Abel Magwitch (initially referred to as the convict, and only revealed as Pips supporter as the terminate of the novel) is not only the atom smasher to a growth into manhood and moral philosophy for Pip, but the character from whom Pip learns the or so from during their interaction. As the convict, Magwitch is nothing but a source of latent fear for Pip. The intrigue surrounding the personal identity of the benefactor and the assumptions the ratifier makes co mpliments the idea that he is a source of fear, and nothing else.At the climax of the novel, when it is revealed to Pip that it is Abel Magwitch, a convict and fugitive, who has bestowed his new riches on the boy who tried to help him years previously, Pips expectations and belief in the gentleman he thinks he is, is shattered. As Pip believes his benefactor was Miss Havisham, and that she has been grooming him for Estella, and to become a true gentleman, he never questions the hardihood of his essence as a gentleman.Upon acquire that the source of his education and wealth and finally his status as a gentleman is in fact a convict, his identity is crushed. It is to his horror that the source of his status as a gentleman is the absolute antithesis of a gentleman in his eyes. Pip thus has to come to terms with the idea that it is not the outward appearance of a man that determines his character. This is also echoed in Chapter 5 of the novel, when Magwitch/the convict confesses t o stealing food from Mrs Joe to save Pip from being implicated.Pip has to accept that the class he was trying to distance himself from embodies something to propose to. Towards the end of the novel, Pip displays his growth as he reflects that in Magwitch he only truism a man who had meant to be my benefactor, and who had felt affectionately gratefully and liberally towards me with great constancy through a series of years. I only saw in him a much better man than I had been to Joe. (440) Thus Pip identifies himself as less of a gentleman than that of Joe and Magwitch, illustrating that he has come full circle, to acknowledging his faults in his perception of his status as a gentleman due to his wealth and education. Herbert represents who Pip could become. Despite his lack of wealth initially, he is every inch a gentleman and upon receiving money at the request of Pip, he starts his own law firm and builds a successful career for himself, thus fulfilling the desires that Pip belie ved he strove for.Pip chooses to misuse the wealth that is bestowed upon him, and it is after Pip learns the valuable lessons from Joe, Jaggers and Magwitch, that he realises that Herbert is the gentleman he aspires to become. While the irony of the source of Herberts wealth being indirectly from Pip is not ill-defined and certainly not unimportant, is it Pips realisation that it is not the source of wealth and status that makes one a gentleman, but the manner in which ones character is displayed in the consequences of ones actions.Pip learns to assume responsibility from his portion from the success of Herbert. It is evident that valuable lessons about the character displayed in actions are predominate in Great Expectations. Joe, Jaggers, Magwitch and Herbert (albeit not as forcefully) offer insight into the quality of ones character as an inbred embodiment of class. Jaggers fails to impress, whereas Magwitch and Joe display varying yet quintessential attributes of gentlemen.He rbert is the opposite pole to Jaggers, representing what Pip can become by embodying gentleman same characteristics, rather than trying to live like one. Pip learns various aspects of the same internal lesson from all these characters that is it not the quality of the life of the man, but the quality of the man, that speaks of his character. Pip loses this awareness during the course of the novel, and it is the interaction with these characters that gradually save him to a path of fulfilling his greatest expectations and dreams.