After their encounter there is a macabre image of Magwitch dodging the graves and it seems the dead people are trying to pull him into the graves; again the boy is being over imaginative.
The main thing they have in common is that they are both lonely and have no friends. At the end of the novel Magwitch becomes a good friend to Pip and teaches him a lot of gratitude. This makes him grateful of Joe at the end of the novel.
When Magwitch meets back up with Pip he is immensely disappointed that he doesn’t remember him. Magwitch has spent all his life waiting to see Pip and when he finally does he doesn’t remember him. This deeply saddens Magwitch. At first Pip acts snobbish towards Magwitch. Clue by clue Magwitch hints that he is his benefactor. He wants Pip to think for himself. He lays down the proof. Before Pip realises Magwitch is his benefactor he welcomes him and treats him with care but once he finds out the truth he shows abhorrence towards the convict. This is because he is higher in the social hierarchy and wouldn’t like to think that all his wealth has come from a low life convict. If word got out this would socially damage Pip. At this point in the novel you would say that Orwell’s assertion has evidence and is true.
“Heart beating like a heavy hammer”, shows good use of alliteration. Magwitch drops clues in the same way that Jaggers does. It’s just like in the beginning of the novel, at the graveyard, in the way that Magwitch is holding Pip. Pip shows prejudice towards convicts even though Magwitch shows the highest generosity for Pip. There is an antithesis, Magwitch’s generosity contrasted with Pip’s snobbish selfishness. He tries to find a way how to tell Pip how much he loves him. Pip is an inspiration to Magwitch. Pip sees things in a materialistic way. Magwitch judges Pips appearance and doesn’t see Pips ingratitude. Pip is the epitome of ingratitude. Pip shows prejudice and repugnance towards Magwitch.
Pip does show sympathy for Magwitch because he offers him a room. Pip feels guilty for Magwitch because he risked his life just to see Pip. Pip recognises he should feel love for him. Pips heart tells him to love Magwitch but his head tells him to show abhorrence. Pip now realises how stupid and how snobbish he was to desert his best friend Joe who was so loyal and caring towards Pip. Magwitch teaches Pip to be a thoughtful person, if it wasn’t for him he wouldn’t have even thought about Joe.
Pip has deep remorse now because he realises that if Magwitch is caught and executed that he will be to blame for this. Pip redeems his past by exaggerating the damage he has cause to Joe and Biddy.
Pips social life has now collapsed, its disordered. He now cannot place himself in the social hierarchy, he pretends that Magwitch is his uncle. We see dog imagery of Magwitch. There is a decreasing intensity of his aversion. Pip wants him out because he doesn’t want to take a convicts money and also he doesn’t want to mess up his social life. Magwitch tries to escape his own life by living for Pip. Pip and Jaggers pretend that they don’t know that “Provis” was coming to England. They make sure that if anyone gets in trouble it is certainly not them. Jaggers says that he is not responsible for misleading Pip in to believe Miss Havisham was his benefactor.
Magwitch begins to see Estella, his lost daughter, in Pip. He tries to replace Estella with Pip. Provis doesn’t mind risking his life because Pip is his son now. Dickens shows Pips abhorrence towards Provis by using a Frankenstein metaphor. Pip doesn’t except Provis’s money because it is from a convict. Orwell is right he is only not accepting the money because it is from a convict’s hand.
He does not tell Provis he doesn’t want to see him anymore just in case he hands himself in to the police and gets executed, this shows some duty and honour. Pip is no longer so afraid of Magwitch because he finds out that the offence he committed was counterfeiting bank notes. He had imagined he had committed murder.
Herbert and Pip show love for Provis and he has softened as a result of their care. They show they care by setting up an escape plan to get Provis out of the country. They warn him he is in danger but he does not care because he now feels he is complete because he is with Pip. Pip is willing to company Provis out of the country. Pip pleases Provis in a small sentimental way by simply saying “goodnight”.
Provis sees Pip as his faithful helper. Magwitch begins to have illusions of he and Pip in a foreign country. Magwitch only feels happiness in this short space of his life, Pip realises what freedom is to him and acknowledges that he has risked everything for a short period with Pip.
Pips last lesson he must learn is that you cannot foretell the future. When they are suspicious of the fact they are being watched and followed Magwitch is so content he doesn’t even care one bit. Pip comforts Provis. Pip now calls the convict his real name Magwitch instead of his cover name Provis, he now completely emphasises with him. The name shows sincerity.
All of Magwitch’s bad fortune comes from the bad work of Compeyson. Pip says he must stay with Magwitch in his time of need he says this in a responsible way. All Pips repugnance towards Magwitch has gone, “For now my repugnance to him had all melted away…”. This proves Orwell to be wrong because he now only shows the highest affection for Magwitch and now loves him like a son would love his father.
By Billy Quelcutti.
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