Miss Havisham asks Estella to play a game of cards with Pip and Estella says “but he is a common labouring boy” .She then goes on to insult Pip further “he calls the knaves, jacks, this boy!...and what coarse hands he has”, Pip begins to think that Estella was right and he starts to look at his own hands as something to be ashamed of “I had never thought of being ashamed of my hands before; but I began to consider them a very indifferent pair. Her contempt was so strong, that it had become infectious, and I caught it” .Pip is feeling intimidated. Dickens shows Pip’s feelings here by using strong words such as contempt and infectious. The reader can see that Pip cares about Estella and what she thinks of him because later on in the chapter when Pip is on his own he takes the opportunity to look at his hands and boots, he then starts to blame Joe for bringing him up as a labouring boy and not a gentleman. When Pip is standing on the disused brewery he sees Miss Havisham hanging on a wooden beam. Pip is thinking about Miss Havisham and how unreal and dead she looks “waxwork … skeleton” Dickens shows this using pathetic fallacy of the disused brewery.
In chapter twenty nine before Pip is going to see Miss Havisham and Estella he is in a very positive and exited mood. “I was up and out…painting brilliant pictures of her plans for me…restore the desolate house…the shining deeds of a young knight of romance, and marry the princess” Dickens coveys Pips state of mind here by using techniques such as powerful adjectives and similes. When Pip is going to the house he is looking at everything in a positive way mainly because he is now a gently man and he thinks Estella likes him “seared red brick walls, blocked windows, and strong green ivy clasping even the stacks of chimneys with its twigs and tendons, as if with sinewy old arms, had made up a rich attractive mystery” and he is getting to sure of himself “of which I was the hero” where as before in chapter eight he was feeling very intimidated and negative about the house “walled up windows…rustily barred” Dickens in both chapters is using pathetic fallacy to show how Pip is feeling he is using the house negatively to reflect on Pip’s mood in chapter eight and positively in chapter twenty nine. Dickens is using powerful and strong words which ads to the tension. When pip goes to ring at the bell of Miss Havisham’s house he is slightly nervous again because he is not sure what Estella looks like or what she will do or what will happen “rung at the bell with an unsteady hand, I turned my back upon the gate, while I tried to get my breath and keep the beating of my heart moderately quiet” here he is starting to lose his confidence and turn back into the old Pip Dickens shows this by using Pip’s physical state. When the door is rung Pip can hear someone coming to answer it from behind him but he pretends not to hear them, this builds up the tension, then when Pip does turn around Dickens does not reveal who it is answering the door which builds up even more tension and suspense “Being at last touched on the shoulder, I started and turned. I started much more naturally then, to find myself confronted by a man in a sober grey dress. The last man I should have expected to see in that place of porter at Miss Havisham's door” then finally the narrator says “Orlick” Pip is very surprised to see Orlick
and Pip does not trust him so here Pip is feeling angry and not sure of Orlick the reader can see this because pip is asking lots of sharp to the point questions. Dickens uses exclamation marks to show that pip is surprised. “Which I had first trodden in my thick boots” When Pip is going up the stairs to see Miss Havisham he thinks back to when he first walked up the stairs.
When Pip goes in to see Miss Havisham he is in a more lively and positive mood “how do you do, Pip? So you kiss my hand as if I were a queen, eh?... grimly playful manner” Dickens is using more lively language and is making Miss Havisham say nicer things that before, this reflects on Pips positive mood. Were as before in chapter eight Miss Havisham and Estella are bullying Pip and whispering which makes Pip seem more negative and intimidated, Dickens shows Pip’s state of mind here by his use of language and grammar. Pip sees Miss Havisham as a threat in chapter eight and as a friend in chapter twenty nine. This is mainly because pip is now a gentleman.
Before pip reaches the house he begins to think about Estella again ‘Estella the heart of it of coarse…she had such strong possession of me’ Pip thinks very highly of Estella and he loves her greatly. Dickens shows this by his use of language, he uses strong adjectives ‘strong possession’ and repetition ‘inspiration of it and the heart of it’ but then Pip goes on to say “I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement”. Pip wants to be with Estella, but inside he knows that it cannot be. Pip and Estella cannot be together because all of the things above might happen. He is deeply in love and he is having a rush of emotions. Dickens shows how Pip is feeling, using repetition. This makes it stick in your mind. Repetition is a very effective language device which is used to create mood. Once pip meets Estella again, he is immediately wrapped around her little finger. Again, Dickens uses repetition from Miss Havisham to reflect on Pip’s state of mind. “Love her, lover her, love her”. When Pip is in the garden with Estella he is having the best time of his life, nothing can put him down ‘it was all in bloom for me. If the green and yellow growth of weed in the chinks of the old wall had been the most precious flowers that ever blew, it could not have been more cherished in my remembrance.’ Dickens conveys Pip’s state of mind here using imagery of the weeds as if to say even if the were the most beautiful flowers in the world, he could still not be any happier than he was then, with Estella.
‘I felt that our patroness had chosen us for one another. Wretched boy!’ Dickens uses the adult narrator for an effect here. The adult narrator comes in at the end of Pip’s feelings and says wretched boy,as if he is looking back.
At the end of the chapter Pip has another rush of emotions and this time Joe is involved “keeping away from Joe, because I knew she would be contemptuous of him. It was but a day gone, and Joe had brought the tears into my eyes; they had soon dried, God forgive me! Soon dried” Dickens uses repetition again to get across Pip’s state of mind here which is that he is ashamed that his tears dried so quickly over Joe and he had not thought about him enough.
Throughout Great Expectations Pip’s feelings and emotions are all put aside and over powered by his love and emotion for Estella. At the end of chapter eight Pip is determined to become a gentleman, he finally achieves his goal in chapter twenty nine. This is all because of the love of his life Estella. Pip is not sure why he feels such strong love for Estella, but he wants to do everything he can to win her love. Pip feels so strongly about Estella that he even starts to blame his own family for not bringing him up as a gentleman (Joe).
