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Pip is the protagonist close protagonist The chief character in a literary work. We follow his journey from being a poor young boy in the countryside to a well-to-do young man in London who moves in high society. Although he is always restless about improving his position, two things really encourage Pip in his efforts:. It is important to understand that Pip is fundamentally mistaken about both these things.

He loves Estella but she cannot love him in return and the money comes from an unexpected and 'contaminated' origin. Pip is basically a kind and helpful person. He is afraid of Magwitch but mainly helps him out of pity.

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Much later he makes sure that his friend Herbert has the money he needs to start up in business. However, he also goes through a phase in which he becomes a snob feeling ashamed of Joe, saying nasty things to Biddy, and showing off in front of his new rich friends. In the end though, he goes back to being an honest and decent young man who has learned lessons from his own behaviour.

Pip is also the narrator close narrator The teller of a story; the voice in a text that describes or narrates the events of the plot.

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The narrator is often either a character in the story, or an authorial voice who gives a commentary on events but doesn't take part. He is critical of the mistakes he made earlier and this helps the reader to sympathise with the central character. Like Pip, Dickens himself had a hard upbringing. His father was imprisoned for debt and at one stage Dickens had to work in a factory — something of which he was ashamed for the rest of his life.

Dickens raised his social position through hard work and self-education; this is also something which Pip eventually does in the novel. Up until meeting Miss Havisham and, especially, Estella, Pip is mostly content with his position in life.